Tag: bloggers

  • Is Blognation in a meltdown?

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    Blognation seemed to be a great idea when it launched. Get great bloggers from all over the world, under one banner, pay them well and the advertising money will follow the quality content. Unfortunately, the money part seems to have proven a little problematic. One of Blognation’s authors, Oliver Starr wrote an open letter to…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • New Audible podcasting format – why bother?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have recently started to take an interest podcasting again – I produced a few podcasts during the summer to dip my toes into podcasting but I had to stop when the soundcard on my PowerBook blew. Recently, I have recorded a couple of my talks and podcast them with generous help from FrankP and…

  • A lynch mob of 20 million?

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    Technorati recently announced that they are now tracking some 20 million bloggers and the number of bloggers is doubling every 5 months! Now Forbes Magazine has a cover story titled “Attack of the Blogs” (registration required but thanks to Steve Rubel’s article I found that the bugmenot login/password “forbesdontbug” worked for me). The article almost…