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YAIBA: Planet.IrishBlogs.info

Posted Thu, 11/17/2005 - 03:22 by John Breslin

Forgot to mention this, but Michele Neylon has set up YAIBA (yet another Irish blogs aggregator ;)) at Planet.IrishBlogs.info. POTB and IrishBlogs.ie have some competition! And that's good to keep us on our toes...

Flu / IIA Awards Tomorrow / IrishBlogs.ie Revamp

Posted Thu, 11/17/2005 - 03:16 by John Breslin

Been in bed / on the couch for most of the past two days with the flu. Thank Yahweh for broadband and wireless access points.

Heading to Dublin tomorrow morning for the IIA Net Visionary event. Should be a good night, looking forward to meeting lots of people and putting faces to names.

November Boards Beers Aftermath

Posted Mon, 11/14/2005 - 16:32 by John Breslin

Quoting from my post on boards.ie, really enjoyed the Novembeers on Saturday night in Dublin.

Had a great night, I'd say it was the best Boards Beers I've attended so far, as I got to meet around 90% of you and hopefully learned half of your names ;) Well, maybe a bit more than that...

EirtaKon 2005 - A Resounding Success

Posted Mon, 11/14/2005 - 16:27 by John Breslin

I think it is fair to say that EirtaKon 2005 was an amazing event, and that the numbers that attended far exceeded any expectations that Art_Wolf, CuLT and crew may have had in mind...

There were over 170 people there on Saturday alone, and this is for something that wasn't even advertised that much (mostly viral word-of-mouth information). The guys did an amazing job at the event organisation, from programmes to bags to badges to t-shirts - kudos to the EirtaKon 2005 team!

Rapture TV to Return Today

Posted Mon, 11/14/2005 - 16:16 by John Breslin

The UK satellite TV station Rapture is due to return today. Of interest to us anime fans is that they plan to show 2 and a half hours of anime each week (two series AFAIK).

More: Digital Spy Forums - Rapture TV begins testing ahead of its return.

ISWC 2005 Over / Won an iPod! / Aligning SIOC with FOAF and SKOS

Posted Fri, 11/11/2005 - 15:28 by John Breslin

ISWC 2005 ended yesterday; had a productive and enjoyable week at the conference here in Galway.

And yesterday, I won an iPod Nano in the ISWC 2005 Semantic Bank annotation competition! Thanks to all the Simile team, and I hope that we can produce and add lots of SIOC data to the bank shortly...

Smart Mobs: Irish are taking their cell phones with them to the grave

Posted Wed, 11/09/2005 - 15:47 by John Breslin

Thanks to Eugene for this article:

Smart Mobs: Irish are taking their cell phones with them to the grave

According to the Belfast Telegraph, Ireland's obsession with mobile phones has sunk to new depths, literally, as a growing number of people are taking their mobiles six feet under with them to the grave.

Facing the sweet hereafter with phone in hand is a new take on the ancient practice of burying a loved one with personal mementos.

Emmet's Map of Galway Wireless Hotspots

Posted Mon, 11/07/2005 - 00:17 by John Breslin

For the 500 or so Semantic Web-heads arriving in the city, Emmet's map of Galway's free wifi areas may come in handy!

ISWC 2005

Posted Sun, 11/06/2005 - 23:57 by John Breslin

The tutorials and workshops for ISWC 2005 began today; of particular interest to our research cluster is the Semantic Desktop workshop, and I hope the associated social event works out okay tonight as I had to organise a venue (Krusoes Restaurant at the Harbour Hotel).

Anyway, here are some ISWC 2005 related links:

Scumday Innuendont

Posted Wed, 10/26/2005 - 14:31 by John Breslin

I know it is old news now, but comparing the headlines of the Sunday Independent ("Lawlor killed in red-light district with teenage girl") and the Sunday Times ("Lawlor dies in Moscow car crash") from the weekend, you'd wonder why does the Sunday Indo have to sink to such lows to sell papers.