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  • Good night

    I went to a lecture in Harvard last night in Emerson Hall by Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing. He is an incredibly good speaker, his speech was on the subject of copyright and DRM. Interestingly enough I bumped into Dan Gillmor at it, who I hadn’t seen since arranging a get together back in 2003…

  • In Boston

    I be in Boston now, more soon.

  • Treasure Trove?

    My trawl through government departments has been an interesting one thus far. For example, you might be interested in reading: The handbook for Government Ministers in Cabinet.(PDF) Or here is a request for tenders for Servers for the Department of the Taoiseach in 2002. (PDF). Or a recent Treaty between the US and Ireland. (PDF)…

  • The government Robots.txt file

    Does anyone notice anything strange about the Robots.txt file on irlgov.ie? Does the 13th of May 1999 ring a bell? The Public Accounts Committee of that date appears to be disallowed. Might be nothing. Just wondered. Update: Thanks to the commenters below for their efforts in relation to the PAC documents. I have been looking…

  • Gah

    Blog fatigue strikes. A significant amount of people coming in looking for Danish cartoons made the server fall over yesterday, some interesting comments there. The samples I posted on Flickr have been viewed 2,500 times in two days.

  • Vote in Irish Blog Awards

    The voting begins, go there now and vote!

  • Blog-aholics

    Here is an interesting statistic according to a recent study, 25% of US workers read blogs. This contributes to a loss of 9% of the working week. In other words U.S. workers in 2005 wasted the equivalent of 551,000 years reading blogs. Here’s the money quote: According to a survey (sub.) by the magazine Advertising…

  • Adam Boulton blogs

    A reader has pointed me to the new blog of Sky News’ Adam Boulton. I hope Adam enjoys the blogosphere.

  • Andrew Sullivan moved

    I really do like the new look of Andrew Sullivan’s blog, since his move to Time.com. You can catch him here from now on.

  • Cork bloggers

    Donal has a post about who exactly lives in Cork, and blogs from there. He mentions that a few of us have been left out of the new site, CorkBlogs.com. Could fellow Corkonian bloggers make themselves known!