Tag: blog

  • Eamon O’Brien – great to meet you again!

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    Eamon O’Brien was a neighbour of mine as a kid. Eamon is a couple of years older than me but we knew each other well. Before yesterday, I hadn’t seen Eamon in around 15 years but his mother and mine were very close so I was always kept up-to-speed on Eamon’s goings on. In the…

  • Pat's in trouble – continued

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    A couple of days ago I posted that Pat Phelan was in some trouble. This evening Pat confirmed it: From Pat’s blog: Our allfreecalls provider in Iowa today took flight due to increasing pressure from a large USA based carrier. We are working on getting a new number up. We expect to be back in…

  • Spam Assassin on Direct Admin problem

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    As I mentioned previously, I have rolled out a new server for my blog (and a couple of sites I host) in the last few days. I am now being hammered by spam! Spam Assassin is installed on the server. The hosting software on the server is called Direct Admin and in each hosted domain…

  • Why do I blog?

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    That is the question Darren Barefoot is trying to get answered in his short 16 question survey. There are prizes for participating in the survey and even more prizes for mentioning the survey in your blog (ahem!). I’m not 100% sure why I do it but I imagine there’s a 12 step program… Via Eoin

  • Welcome Eoin

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    Noted Trinity law lecturer and sometime radio pundit on all things legal, Eoin O’Dell has taken the wrappings off his blog finally! Eoin has been blogging on a private blog for the last several months now but on Friday Eoin took the username and password off his blog and now everyone can read his thoughts…

  • Blogs increase newspaper traffic online

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    Reuters is reporting today that the number of people reading the blogs of newspapers in the US tripled in the last year. The study of online habits carried out by Neilsen went on to show that: Unique visitors to blog sites affiliated with the largest Internet newspapers rose to 3.8 million in December 2006 from…

  • Are Six Apart losing it?

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    Six Apart are the US based company who make blog software TypePad, Movable Type, and Vox. Loic Le Meur, is the Eurppean head of Six Apart. Loic was also the organiser of the recent Le Web 3 mess and has written a blog post (and emailed attendees) his side of what happened in Paris last…

  • it@cork 2006 conference review

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    Tom Raftery
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    [At the outset, let me say that any comments I make on this event will be coloured by the fact that I was one of the organisers!] Ok, with that out of the way, I think yesterday’s event was a tremendous success! There were over 250 people attended (Catherine can give me exact numbers but…