Category: social media

BarCamp Dublin was great

Apr 23, 2007

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by

Tom Raftery

in barcamp, Blogging, cix, Climate Change, social media

I attended BarCamp Dublin at the weekend and it was a fantastic day – kudos to the organisers (Paul, Elly, Joe, Paul, and Eoghan). I was waylaid in the corridors several times so I didn’t get to as many talks as I would have liked. I did get to good friend and TCD law lecturer…
We have lost faith in advertising (if we ever had any)

Mar 9, 2007

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by

Tom Raftery

in advertising, social media

We have, by and large, stopped believing in advertising. Why is that? It is because we are sick of being lied to by advertisers. Shampoos which ‘nourish’ our hair? Now with added ‘citrus technology’? Hair is composed of dead cells. You can’t nourish dead cells. We are being bombarded by lie-vertising and we have learned…