Tag: Blogging

  • Net Visionary!

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    It seems that I have been nominated for a 2006 Net Visionary award in three categories! I don’t know who nominated me, but thanks. It is both flattering and humbling to be nominated, particularly in light of the quality of some of my fellow nominees. I have been nominated in Best Social Contribution (!). I…

  • Google Blogsearch adds ping

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    Thanks to Niall Kennedy for pointing out Google’s new ping service. This is great – one of the biggest problems I had with Google’s blogsearch was how slow it was to pick up on posts. Several hours after posting an article, typically it still wasn’t up on Google whereas the post is often up on…

  • Windows Live Writer – Insert Event

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    I read on Conor O Neill’s blog this morning that Windows Live Writer has a plugin which allows insertion of Events. The Events can be added from Eventful using Live Clipboard or via a search Eventful button in the plugin. To give it a try, I entered the information about the it@cork 2006 Annual Conference…

  • Political blogging conference in Dublin

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    Irishelection.com are hosting a Blogging the Election conference in the Digital Hub in Dublin on October 7th, I see. This appears to be conference for and about those bloggers who have an interest in politics – it is great to see blogs in Ireland breaking out of the tech niche. Guido Fawkes, noted UK political…

  • Oh no! Scoble Show launched

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    Robert Scoble’s video show was launched this morning. The delay in the launch was due to the PodTech.net site’s re-design apparantly. There are some fascinating interviews there. One of the videos is of a photo walk with Thomas Hawk. Thomas is a photographer in San Francisco and works with photo sharing site Zooomr. I did…

  • Blog training course commences

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    I’m just about to kick off the first of the it@cork blog training events – there are five training sessions between now and October 23rd. Hopefully I won’t totally bore the pants off the attendees and we’ll get some new and interesting blogs emerging from the course!

  • Light posting this week

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    Because I am addressing an internal Microsoft meeting in Switzerland on Wednesday, posting will be light this week. And as I have signed an NDA, there will be no details of the Microsoft meeting posted.

  • Cork blogger meetup

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    Pat Phelan is organising a blogger dinner/meetup to coincide with the visit to Cork of Shel Israel and Rick Segal in October. The dinner is on in the Taste of Thailand restaurant, Bridge Street, Cork on October 17th at 8pm. Leave a comment on Pat’s site if you want to attend. I know I’ll be…