Category: Blogging

  • On fundraising for relatives in need

    I rarely talk about personal things on my blog. People may have noticed that over the last 4 years I have almost never mentioned anything related to family or friends, and I did that for a reason. I chose to seperate my blog ‘persona’, if you will, from my own interactions in the ‘real’ world.…

  • Tom Glocer gets it

    [via Jeff] This is probably the most important speech since Rupert Murdoch’s address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in April last year. Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters, made a speech to the Online Publishing Association last week. It’s in .doc format here. Some key bits (I’ve ended up posting most of the speech,…

  • Colbert loves Irishhealth.com

    Colbert says Irishhealth.com is one of his favourite sites. He is always looking for new tips on how to beat Scarlet Fever. The Word is ‘Homo Sapien Agenda’.

  • Where you been?

    Dan Drezner posts maps of the countries he’s visited, using the visited countries site that I remember seeing some years ago. Given my dismal array of countries visited I won’t post mine (you can count the countries on two hands), I will instead show my sisters countries visited. It really doesn’t give an idea as…

  • Podge and Rodge

    Just watched it this evening, and Aine Chambers from Sligozone.net made it onto the show in the form of showing a video from the site.

  • Ajaxpress

    Some new blog software, based on Ajax, and going on the Demo it is the simplest format I have seen so far. A new competitor to WordPress?

  • Letter to the Bank

    Dan Buckley, columnist at the Irish Examiner, has a letter to his bank manager.

  • More new Irish blogs

    It grows and grows. Dan Buckley over at Domestic Despair (A Cork man too) A Kevin Myers-watch blog An Irish ice-cream blog Copernicus over at the Midnight Court I wonder though, besides aggregators like POTB, how we are going to manage to read all the new blogs. I do use RSS aggregators myself (Thunderbird) but…

  • As I expected…

    You are a Social Liberal (70% permissive) and an… Economic Moderate (50% permissive) You are best described as a: Democrat Link: The Politics Test on Ok CupidAlso: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

  • Who reads this blog anyway?

    If you are reading this please leave a comment…maybe include how you found my blog, and what made you stay(if you did). Curiosity! By the way I will be keeping this as the first entry for a few days…