Category: IT@Cork

  • it@cork 2006 Conference – Eddie Hobbs

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    Eddie Hobbs led off the talks at the it@cork conference this morning. His talk focussed heavily on energy and the coming energy crisis. What is the Irish government’s plan when oil reaches $200 per barrel? [Hint: it is up there with their dealing with an asteroid hitting Dáil Eireann plan]. The average distance food travels…

  • Salim, the early bird…

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    The first of the speakers for the it@cork 2006 Business and Technology conference flew in last night. Salim Ismail, founder and CEO of Confabb (coincidentally a conference aggregation site!), is taking a couple of days before the conference starts to drive around beautiful West Cork and Kerry. Salim will be arriving back in Cork tomorrow…

  • Salim launches Confabb

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    My good buddy Salim has taken the covers off his latest venture Confabb and it has received a glowing review from TechCrunch, amongst others. Confabb is a conference aggregation and organisation site. It has a database of over 16,000 conferences and the ability to log in and add more or use the site to help…

  • Any questions for Eddie Hobbs?

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    Eddie Hobbs is an Irish television presenter and financial adviser. He is also a speaker at the 2006 it@cork annual conference where he’ll be speaking about advantages of investing in IT as opposed to property. I will be interviewing him tomorrow (Tuesday November 7th) as part of the pre-conference podcasts. If you have any questions…

  • Where are the Irish Business Blogs?

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    In my excitement at being shortlisted for the Netvisionary awards and in coming quite high in Justin’s Technorati-ranked Top 100 Irish blogs, I missed something fundamental – the fact that I am doing well is a very poor reflection on the state of business blogging in Ireland. What do I mean? Well, one of the…

  • Exporting to mp3 from Audacity on an Intel Mac

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    I upgraded to a shiny new Intel based MacBook Pro recently and I love it. One problem that I hadn’t anticipated was that the Audacity plugin for exporting to mp3 is not available for the Intel Mac. I use Audacity all the time for editing my podcasts and for creating the mp3’s which I publish…

  • Audacity aiff import problems

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    Audacity is an open source, cross-platform sound editing application. It is the sound editor I use for producing the PodLeaders and it@cork podcasts. The process I use for producing the podcasts was: Record the interview using Skype and Wiretap Pro (with Wiretap Pro set to save as mp3) Import the mp3 file to Audacity and…

  • The next great Cork Blogger's dinner

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    The plates are hardly dry from last night’s great blogger’s dinner and we have another spectacular one planned. The date is November 28th, time and venue are yet to be decided – mark it in your calendars now! November 28th is the eve of it@cork’s 2006 Business and Technology conference, so I made sure to…