Category: Blogging

MSN recently decided to go along with the Chinese authorities and block certain profane words like “human rights,” “democracy,” and “freedom of speech”. The fascinating blogosphere reaction is detailed here. Thankfully with technology there is always a workaround.

I will be tweaking and adding things for quite a while, I must say it is interesting to start a new weblog after running this one for so long! I expect it to take a good few weeks before the weblog resembles what I want it to look like. I have moved the domain to…

Ok it is starting to take a little shape. Looks like this will be a solo project, but I’ll try and keep my posting here regular too. God this will take time.

Among the many ideas brough up in conversation during drinks with some of Ireland’s bloggers, was my idea of recording jokes and podcasting/audioblogging them to the masses. This could be done to great effect in the pubs of Ireland, where accents are very interesting, and jokes can be very, very funny. I would imagine an…

Well that was a weekend and a half in Killarney folks! Back to regular posting now.

I am off down to a wedding in Kerry today, so posting will be very light. I did manage to go to the IT@Cork event last night and spent the night being a complete drunken eejit with Maura, Tom, John and Richard. Apologies to them in advance! More when I get back.

Glenn Reynolds argues that: The news business is in trouble. Readership and viewership are declining, public trust is plummeting, and advertisers are beginning to wonder whether they’re getting their money’s worth. This has led people to think about what blogger and tech journalist Doc Searls calls business models for “news without newspapers,” an approach to…