I keynote, write, and podcast about Sustainability, CleanTech and Supply Chain
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Sorry for the lack of posts, the last few days have been manic both on the work front and on the home front. Hopefully I’ll get a few spare seconds today to put up some posts (apart from this one!).
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Gapminder.org's incredible data visualisation
One of the revelations for me of the Le Web 3 conference was hearing Prof. Hans Rosling‘s presentation. Everyone I spoke to mentioned his talk as being the highpoint of the event. I checked out Gapminder.org, the site he mentioned…
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"People should just buy a cd and rip it"
In a previous post on Digital Rights Management (DRM) I said: DRM is an evil, market restricting, anti-consumer device (why shouldn’t I be able to play DVDs bought in the US on my DVD player in Ireland?) It seems I…
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Games console recommendations
I am thinking of treating myself to a new games console this Christmas. I have an original Xbox and my favourite games on that were Splinter Cell and Halo. I’m not a huge gamer – the most use the Xbox…
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Komplett refunds me!
In a previous post about consumer rights, I mentioned how I had asked Komplett for a refund for a faulty drive they had sent me. Having read on the Consumer Association of Ireland website that I was entitled to a…
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Lie detector software for Skype?
The BBC is reporting that there will very shortly be a plugin for Skype which acts as a lie detector by analysing: audio streams over a Skype call in real time and illustrates the stress levels of the other person…
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Sam Sethi's personal blog disabled by Loic?
Ben Metcalf is reporting that Sam Sethi’s Typepad personal blog has been disabled. Typepad is the company Loic Le Meur works for and Sam recently wrote a post on Techcrunch UK critical of the Le Web conference organised by Loic.…
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Sam Sethi fired for not deleting a comment?
There is a post on the web2ireland blog claiming that Techcrunch UK’s Sam Sethi has been fired by Mike Arrington! The post author, Paul Walsh is very close to Sam so I would put a lot of faith in this…
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