Category: Blogging

  • Cork Geek Dinner

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    Well, the Cork geek dinner went ahead last night in Proby’s Bistro, as planned. It seems to have been a great success – at least, everyone told me they enjoyed it anyway! Robert Scoble and Maryam were there and despite having come from the IT@Cork conference where Robert delivered two great talks, Robert still made…

  • I'm at the IT@Cork conference today

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    I’m going to be at the IT@Cork Conference today (Wed 30th) – Robert Scoble is Opening the conference with a talk on Business Blogging – I can’t wait. I’ll be blogging the conference live on the IT@Cork blog and I’ll be recording interviews with delegates and speakers – I will upload those interviews on the…

  • Michael Arrington Podcast

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    As I mentioned previously, I interviewed Michael Arrington of TechCrunch last week as part of my ongoing series of recorded and podcast phone interviews. Michael really impressed me in the interview with his humour, his obvious intelligence and his humility. This is definitely one of the most stimulating interviews I have recorded yet – despite…

  • Feeds and comments – for and against…

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    Robert Scoble has posted that he is trimming his blogroll – one of the qualifications he is using – if the site doesn’t provide full feeds, he unsubscribes. Robert has said this previously – I agreed with him then and I agree with him still. Partial feeds are a pain – they force you to…

  • Everything you blog is false!

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    Today’s podcast is an interview I did with TJ McIntyre – TJ is Chairman of Digital Rights Ireland, and is a lecturer in Law in UCD. The interview was fascinating, and should be compulsory listening for any Irish blogger. TJ informed me that everything published on a blog is automatically considered defamatory in the eyes…

  • Upcoming podcasts – get your questions in!

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    Great news! I have some extremely interesting podcast interviews coming up soon that I am very excited about – in the next few days I plan on recording interviews with: Michael Arrington – Owner/author of TechCrunch – a weblog dedicated to “obsessively profiling and reviewing new web 2.0 products and companies” TJ McIntyre – Chairman…

  • Microsoft becoming more open?

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    Microsoft made two major announcements overnight – the first is an announcement by Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie that Microsoft are extending RSS under a Creative Commons licence, and calling the extended RSS, Simple Sharing Extensions or SSE. Russell Beattie likes it: Adding in SSE namespace could then in theory allow *any* data contained in an…

  • Shel Israel podcast

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    The Shel Israel interview went ahead last night, as planned. Shel was great, full of warm humour, interesting insights and relevant anecdotes. below are the questions I asked him and the times in the podcast they were asked: Shel, what is it about Ireland that appeals to you? – 1:15 You guys wrote Naked Conversations…