Tag Archives: blogs

What is Social Media's 'big thing' for 2008?

Posted on November 6, 2008 by

Photo Credit darkmatter First off – a big apology to everyone who is subscribed to this blog for the lack of postings in the last number of months. I haven’t stopped blogging, it is just that since I started working … Continue reading →

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Friendfeed now on Twhirl

Posted on April 17, 2008 by

Friendfeed is a very cool site which aggregates all your rss feeds onto one page. This is cool because I contribute to 6 blogs and numerous other sites (Ma.gnolia, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, etc.) often automatically without ever visiting the sites … Continue reading →

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Donncha in Photo exhibition

Posted on September 10, 2007 by

Mallow Camera Club are holding an exhibition of photographs in Mallow Town Library for charity for the next three weeks and fellow blogger, photo blogger and WordPress lead developer, Donncha O’Caoimh will have one of his photos in the exhibition … Continue reading →

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Adblock – love it or hate it?

Posted on August 27, 2007 by

I wrote a post the other day talking about a blogger who stopped all Firefox users from visiting his site because they may have the Adblock plugin installed! Adblock is a plug-in for Firefox which allows you to view sites … Continue reading →

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Site owner blocks Firefox users!

Posted on August 24, 2007 by

I saw this story on Techmeme this morning and I simply couldn’t believe it – but it is true! A guy called Danny Carlton has decided to block ALL Firefox users from his site because: The Mozilla Foundation and its … Continue reading →

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Google Reader quick comments

Posted on August 20, 2007 by

I have now completely moved over to using Google Reader as my primary RSS reader. And it appears I am in good company! I started using it regularly while on holidays on my phone and I grew to like it … Continue reading →

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BlogTalk 2008 to be held in Cork?

Posted on August 14, 2007 by

BlogTalk is a big international conference around the Social Media space. The last BlogTalk conference was in Vienna and featured speakers such as Danah Boyd, Suw Charman, and Matt Mullenweg. Thomas Burg, John Breslin and I are going to see … Continue reading →

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Full feeds lead to more page views

Posted on August 14, 2007 by

TechDirt has an article explaining why full feeds lead to more page views on your site than partial feeds. From the article: Full text feeds makes the reading process much easier. It means it’s that much more likely that someone … Continue reading →

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Congrats to Conor O'Neill

Posted on August 13, 2007 by

on the launch of Blognation Ireland earlier today. Conor (from review aggregator LouderVoice) is the editor of Blognation Ireland and the publication promises: to bring you all the latest news from the world of Web2.0 and mobile in Ireland Subscribed.

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Google Reader saved my life!

Posted on August 10, 2007 by

Well, that might be exaggerating it slightly Still, I was away recently on holidays for three weeks and I didn’t bring my laptop with me. I was offline. Cut off from the infostream for the first time in months. Then … Continue reading →

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