Category: Blogging

  • Cork bloggers dinner in June

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    Damien is organising a bloggers dinner for June 7th, the evening before the IT@Cork Web 2.0 mini-conference. Stormhoek have confirmed that they will supply wine for the event (thanks Hugh). Shel Israel, Salim Ismail, Rob Burke and Walter Higgins (4 of the 5 speakers from the Web 2.0 conference) have confirmed that they will attend…

  • Site offline temporarily – apologies

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    Anyone trying to access this site or my PodLeaders site today between around 12:54 GMT and 13:14 GMT would have seen a screen somewhat like the one below. My hoster told me when I rang them that they were ‘working on it’ but didn’t tell me what ‘it’ was! This is the second time in…

  • Back with a vengence

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    Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s high profile blogger, went on a blog holiday for the past week and it obviously gave him time to do some serious thinking. He has posted a marathon post which posits five ways to improve Microsoft’s image both internally and externally. What are his five suggestions? A guaranteed Terabyte of Internet-based storage…

  • Do you still think blogging is a fad?

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    I see Dave Sifry (who I interviewed on PodLeaders.com a couple of weeks ago) has published a new quarterly State of the Blogosphere. Dave’s main findings are that the blogosphere is still doubling in size every 6 months – so it is maintaining its rate of virtually exponential growth. The blogosphere is over 60 times…

  • Is blogging becoming monologous?

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    Robert Scoble announced the other day that he was going to start moderating the comments on his blog: It was that moment that I decided to moderate my comments here. Yes, I am now approving every comment here. And I will delete any that don’t add value to either my life or the lives of…

  • Schwag disclosure

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    I have recently received some schwag – a biro, 2 t-shirts and a bag from Murphys and a t-shirt from Flock – so now you know anything I blog about these companies is bound to be tainted by the exorbitant presents they have been raining on me 😉 Having said that, if you really want…

  • Hello?

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    Rob, as a member of the Developer and Platform Group at Microsoft Ireland, you are supposed to be building a community – so how come I can’t leave a comment on your blog? UPDATE – Rob has now turned off the need to register on his blog in order to comment – thanks Rob, I…

  • The advantages of blogging for business

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    Blogging is still not recognised as a tool for businesses in Ireland – outside of the tech sphere, I can’t think of a single company who are blogging. Why should companies blog? Blogging is advantageous for companies on many fronts: Blogs are extremely cheap to setup and run Search engines love blogs Blogs convey Authority…