How many members of this group are playing this game? http://www.blogshares.com/ I know Maura is on. Richard D has played. Slugger plays. I'm playing. Blarog...
... Karlin hasn't updated her blog since March. More importantly for the IT, are those readers paying readers of the IT? With Karlin's apparent relocation to...
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May 1, 2005 3:54 pm
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... surely if the hype is to be believed (the bloggers shall inherit the earth) then this is the last thing the IT wants to do? why point their readers to a...
... Which is essentially what the Sunday Tribune does. It also keeps the section well away from the business section. ... Technology news is only a small part...
... Yeah Feargal, My Walter Burns [1] attitude to technology journalists probably prevented me from becoming a technology journalist for the Irish Times. :) ...
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May 1, 2005 5:15 pm
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I have wifi at home and it's not that I mind offering a free service to the neighbouts but I should think about securing the service. My service provider is...
When you install the WiFi box at home, you should have a software control panel that lets you establish security settings. The simplest settings are WEP (Wired...
Interesting post about the NY Times Killing their dedicated tech section (via Bernie's Blog [1]). This may be signficant for The IT because they generally...
John McCormac
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May 2, 2005 10:29 pm
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There are several things to consider when securing wifi. As well as using WEP some software will allow you to only allow cards with a certain MAC address to...
(Problems with previous post, here goes again). Thanks to Uldis Bojars, we now have a local browse facility for each cached blog at Planet Of The Blogs. In...
Thought I'd add a small anecdote... About three weeks ago a friend of mine was rabbiting on in my ear for an hour one evening about how he was going to secure...
... I would well believe it, we did an Cisco Wirless Instructor course a year ago, some of the guys in our class took a trip from cork city out to visit ...
You would find my open node in Kilkenny. You would also find that many Eircom nodes are wide open too. The fact that they're open doesn't mean that you can ...
According to John Breslin in this message http://groups.yahoo.com/group/irishblogs/message/86 POTB surfaced on a public URL on 1 April 2005 without a logo. ...
Sorry for dragging this up again but I noticed over the long weekend that I got 24 referrers a day from irishblogs.ie 24 referrers a day. How many hours in a...
Call for free archives After hearing that the New York Times will test readers willingness to pay bulk fees for access to its archives, Business Week's Stephen...
Here's a snippet from a late night message session that suggests Planet Of the Blogs should have a ping server that can detect events. <snip> byahoo:...
Hi, My name is Justin MacCarthy, and I'm interested in the web 2.0 / rss / xml and plumbing side of the blogging scene. I'll dive in here with some thoughts,...
... Is there any way that Planet of the Blogs can help me find those old episodes of South Park I can't get anywhere else? And it would also be really, really...
Times Online have uncovered the mystery of 'Alastair Campbell's'blog. It's run by 30-year-old Anna Corp who works in marketing for an online bookmakers - a...
... The only way to make realistically make this happen would be to have the tagging option as a plugin for the main blog software packages. ... Dmoz's...
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May 6, 2005 7:15 am
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... Should be easy enough to do over the weekend. I've finished the Irish Hosters/Domains statistics report for May and have a few spare hours. ... I think I...
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May 6, 2005 7:22 am
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Forgive my level of non-technicalness, but when you guys are talking about the Technorati tags and plug-ins, are you talking about say coming up with a plug-in...