John, You're making a lot of generalizations that just don't make sense. I've been working with technology magazines in Ireland and abroad for over fifteen...
... They make sense in a zero dark thirty rant Tom, ... Technology magazines like WebIreland? That was a classic example of a bad magazine. I could probably...
... But I do see some of the press releases that they recycle Tom, A lot less now since I stopped doing tech journalism because the search engine and domain...
I wouldn't use the same kind of terms John uses, but I would tend to agree with him to an extent A lot (not all) of the Irish journalists are lazy or...
... Hash: SHA1 FWIW, I see exactly the same problems occurring in blogging circles. The frequently-trackbacked and technorati'd stories get lots of "ink", but ...
... Agreed, but that's possibly because people who blog actively may, in my opinion, be influenced by similar sources of information ... There's a lot of...
I remember 1972 for Watergate and for hard-core porn. I saw a bit of both in college [1] where the father of a guy living across the hall from me was sent to...
The EU Parliament released a report today on Data Retention etc - which Ireland was one of the initiators of the idea 'retain' info etc. I put up some...
conor's deal probly precludes him from irish newspapers. village is a mag (or a rag, depending on your view) fwiw, it was the editor of village who told me...
... Strange magazine. It is the kind of magazine that it is difficult to remember reading. Perhaps it is like Phoenix for people who don't want to have to...
... You should be able to get it in most newsagents/corner shops. If the one next door to me has it you're guaranteed to find it in Waterford They're going to...
... Should be possible to find then. :) ... That's what worries me. Will it be the same stuff that appears in the Irish Time "technology in business" or...
Does anyone know if Walmart intends to build any Walmarts in Ireland or has it given up on Ireland? It is just that I noticed something activity on the Walmart...
No, but since they've decided to allow a 'special exception' for an Ikea superstore, you can bet Walmart won't be far behind. What idiot in government thought...
... I'm not so sure that they will. A pile of their Intellectual Property Protection domain registrations got deleted. Perhaps I'm just applying Threats And...
... Yeah. I'll make more sense of it when I am awake later today. It was the standard a Intellectual Property Landgrab registration that got deleted. The stats...
Guys, I'm seeing a marked increase in comment spam this week. Fortunately, because of measures I have taken, none have been published, but I'm wondering if...
I added the two upcoming events on POTB to Upcoming.org with the tag irishblogs [1]. I think it'd be really cool if people in general used Upcoming.org a bit...
... Dave, thanks for adding the Blogging for Business event (http://www.itcork.ie/index.cfm?page=events&eventId=47) - it is looking like it will be a very...
... Thankfully, no. But on my blogs I've done everything possible to make it difficult for spammers to comment. Comment spam is the reason why I totally...
That's a cool idea Dave, I must see how to separate RSS feeds on the POTB right hand side, I didn't look at it long enough and that's why the Bookmarks and...
I know some people are migrating away from MT beause of the comment spam. Slugger was virtually demobilised last summer because of it. We then migrated to...
... It certainly is available outside the Pale - I can get it in my local small post office (somewhere West of the Shannon). Mono...
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... All systems like that have various drawbacks. What you now have is a CAPTCHA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha) It's a decent enough solution but the...
Seems fair enough to close old threads, but we find it useful for people to bring back previous entries. Indeed I like to link backwards to give readers a...
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