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Fake bloggers soon to be ‘named and shamed’-News-Politics-TimesOnline

Fake bloggers soon to be ‘named and shamed’

Sam Coates, Political Correspondent

Hotels, restaurants and online shops that post glowing reviews about themselves under false identities could face criminal prosecution under new rules that come into force next year.

(Originally posted by John Breslin on the IIA Blog.)

(Originally posted by John Breslin on the IIA Blog.)

Hello and welcome to the first of my guest posts for the Irish Internet Association's blog. For the next two weeks, I'll be talking about matters Web 2.0 related - hopefully with enough material to pique the interest of those who are both new to or already involved in this and related areas.

Digital Media awards are being held on the 1st February 2007 in the Burlington Hotel. Another blog linked to DERI was nominated in the same category as mine, that of Galway author Sandra Bunting who is writing a novel online via her blog "sandwriter" and began blogging following a tutorial by our community and education outreach officer, Brendan Smith.

We're having some interesting talks at the first Drupal Ireland Meetup in DERI, NUI Galway today. Alan Burke has talked about the views module in Drupal, and Vincent Jordan is now talking about Drupal 5 multi-site installations (I also gave a SIOC module and taxonomies presentation earlier). Looking forward to the rest of the talks (aggregators by Aidan Finn, webforms and jQuery by Stéphane Corlosquet, and CCK by Alan Burke). Also in attendance are Haklae Kim, Sukhyung Hwang from DERI, and Gerry Shanahan from boards.ie.