Category: Blogging

  • Le Web 3 – I want a refund

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    Tom Raftery
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    Here is the text of an email I just sent to Le Web 3 organiser Loic Le Meur: Loic, I am furious at the way you arbitrarily decided to change the Le Web conference schedule without any notification to the people who paid good money and took valuable time out of their schedules to attend.…

  • Medical Defence Union censors blogger, takes money and runs

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    Tom Raftery
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    Everybody hates insurance and insurance companies. Insurance is, at best a necessary evil, and insurance companies are, by their practices, only marginally above pond scum in a lot of people’s minds. Imagine then an insurance company who sells insurance but who have a clause in their policies saying that in the event of a claim,…

  • World champion blogger?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I was on NewsTalk 106 again yesterday evening. This time with I was on the Technology for the Rest of us slot with George Hook and Karlin Lillington. What I didn’t realise going to the interview, was that this was the launch of NewsTalk in Cork and so they had along local politicians, the CEO…

  • A-list blogger

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    Tom Raftery
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    It appears I am an A-List blogger! Just goes to show they haven’t set the bar very high, have they?!!! Via the blog friends I met at the Brussels blogger’s dinner. I see Pat Phelan blogged about this too.

  • Busy couple of days

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    I have a busy couple of days ahead – expect light posting. – today I have a couple of CIX-related sales meetings – I have an it@cork pre-conference podcast with Eddie Hobbs to edit and publish – tomorrow I have several meetings in Dublin followed by the Netvisionary Awards night – Friday I have an…

  • Your top Web 2.0 apps?

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    If we ignore the fact that the term Web 2.0 is controversial for all kinds of reasons and concentrate on the applications themselves, which Web 2.0 apps (using the broadest possible definition) do you use most? I use: my blog and podcast software all the time (they are run out of WordPress) my Flickr account…

  • How to speed up WordPress

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    Tom Raftery
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    In my last post, I was wondering how to fix the issues people were having leaving comments on this site. Attempts to leave comments were timing out and the comments were not being posted. Fortunately I had lots of great suggestions from readers on how to resolve the issues and I think it is now…

  • Commenting problems on this site

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have had several reports from people who have had issues trying to leave comments on this site and it concerns me greatly. Conor made six attempts to leave a comment this afternoon (fair dues to his persistence) I initially thought it had to do with the number of comments in my Akismet queue but…