Tuesday 26th, back to the grind.. Bank holidays are weird when you’re self employed, you don’t really get to take extra days off, so when I came back on Monday evening I had started Tuesdays work! The IIA Annual General Meeting was announced for the 17th Nov.  just my luck, I’m out of the country! I found Guidelines, Tools and Resources For Web Wire framing quite useful. They detail a ton of tools for designing a wire frame template.

Wednesdays 27th, busy day going though brand guidelines and sports results. In the last few months I’ve been doing a lot of work with a client in the sports/gaming industry. I’ve learnt a lot about US sports! Little did I know it but a one week project was running over and I ended up working until 3am trying to get it completed. It was really bugging me, so like any good hacker I burnt the midnight oil to get it closed out.

I was contacted by Alec Taylor about a Citizens ‘THINK-IN’, its an event that happens every Thursdays @ 5.30-7.30pm, FRANK McKENNA’s Pub, George’s Place, Dun Laoghaire. Then I got the heads up that Compu b are running a creative event on on Thursday 4th November 2010 in the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin 2.

Thursday/Friday 28th/29th , was a bit of a wash out after my late night! I had some fun building an interactive dashboard for a client. It involved sunsets, clouds and lots of javascript .. I was talking to a friend today and he was pointing out Seminar Cloud to me.. It’s a great way to Sell Your Seminars Online.

I missed the Dublin web summit .. to be honest, I couldn’t justify the cost of the ticket.  I’m more inspired by watching people like Keith from Woodale designs, Peter from Donegan landscaping or Fran from Made in Hollywood. Founders are great.. but at the end of the day we have a lot of gems in Ireland.

I’m sorry i missed Matt from WordPress / Automattic .. I’m a huge fan of the work that they and their team do. Here is a video from the summit..

Check out http://beard.ie/ to join our Movember team. I also launched t9.ie a short url site.

It wasn’t that I didn’t have time (I was making time). What happened was, I started getting a lot negative feedback about the posts.  People didn’t seem to like to hear snippets from my day. I had a ton of people unsubscribe from my email and RSS updates, so I decided to cut my losses and stop.

I started on a bad note by saying I didn’t care about the quality of my posts. That was a big mistake as readers want quality not quantity. I knew this before I started, so I should have listened to that inner voice that said.. “Oi! cop on Jason!”. For some reason the voice sounded a bit like Peter.

Maybe its because myself and Louise had a podcast session in the car on the way back from Cork (*cough* the Kingdom?! or rebel county or something.. ). The session consisted of a mixture of Stuff you should know, Stuff mom never told you and the Sodcast. I have the words “reduce, reuse, recycle” going through my head as I write this ..

So on that note, I’m going to start again.. This time, I’m only going to post once or twice a week. The plan is to cover 365 days but spread it out over a few posts. Hopefully it wont be overkill and I’ll keep the quality up. I’m going to remove all the #BTD stuff too and just put it in the 365 category.

Id love to hear your feedback.

The Freelance Feed, showcasing a high number of quality freelance reading resources.

Colab.ie, Enabling collaboration by helping people with ideas meet people with skills.

SPF Record Setup for Multiple Mail Servers

Social SEO the Evolution – Fact and Fiction, it’s business as usual crappy links and ok content!

Are Hyperlocals Replacing Traditional Newspapers? sites that don’t have the budget for flashy graphics or searchable databases. Their content comes from observant neighbors.

The future is another country, Social networks and statehood. Facebook is not quite a sovereign state—but it is beginning to look and act like one

RoadRecords is closing down! Sad day, but everything there is 50% off so pop down and help yourselves to some bargains

Gagababy.ie up for the game . “The journey was the best market feasibility study I have ever done. People said: ‘Where did you get that? I would love one’,” she recalls.

iPad hits Irish shops today

‘Army’ of mentors needed for start-ups

Ghost in the Machine, Portraits of musicians made out of recycled cassette tape

It’s Official – Twitter Knows When We Are Happy or Sad!

Photo walk July 24th organised by John Williams.

The Secret of Successful Entrepreneurs

After the Click: What Products Do Your Users Actually Buy? .. Have you ever stopped to think about what products people are actually buying after they click on your ad?

Effective Presentation Skills

Ten Photowalking Tips, some quick tips to help you out, especially if it’s your first photowalk.

SEO Trainee Wanted, looking for a new job and a change in direction? Check out this role.

Fash Mob is on facebook.

CloudCanvas Launches HTML5 Image Creation And Editing Suite

Facebook’s 500 Million Members .. wow!

How to Optimise YouTube Videos – YouTube SEO Presentation

Refresh Dublin Tickets still available

I can see this becoming a big seller!

Invest Ireland 2010 – connecting Angel investors with Ireland’s most promising Entrepreneurial ventures DCU Ryan Academy 28-30 September 2010

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs. It aims at helping new entrepreneurs to acquire relevant skills for managing a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) by spending time in a business in another EU country.

Typekit is the easiest way to use real fonts on the web.

Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music.

Erm Dublin Skank.. say after me “skank to the right, skank to the left!” .. OMG!

Why Co-Working Makes Sense for Small Businesses

091 Labs a Hackerspace in Galway Has A New Home

Conjuring up the people factor, Richard Branson. All of my top five tips for entrepreneurial success rely on getting the most out of your people

E-Books sales top that of  Hardcovers at Amazon.

Check the tone of your emails.. Studies show e-mail messages are interpreted incorrectly 50% of the time.

Five Ways Pixar Makes Better Decisions

Thoughts on Google’s App Inventor

A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Social Media

Looking for a new start? Try a job in PR (Junior PR Executive/s ).

How to Maximize Your Click-Through Rate and Add More Control to Your Landing Pages Using Ad Sitelinks

Crazy Germans .. Germans take cultural party on to motorway. As many as three million people turned up for a giant banquet at picnic tables along 60km (40 miles) of motorway between Duisburg and Dortmund

Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit – Available at BSRemoval.com – feat. Brad Stine:

Google Discontinues the Nexus One Android Phone.

Wordalizer lets you Create Word Clouds in InDesign

37+ Great Ajax, CSS Tab-Based Interfaces

How fast is your Facebook page growing? The Irish Social Media Monitor has been developed as a resource to track the growth of commercial Facebook pages in ireland.

Anyone fancy doing Anglo’s new website? Payment up front, maybe?

Compulsory Driving Lessons : What The Changes Would Mean for Learners.

Street Artist Proposes Through Street Art – Think of how much better watching this is than watching those Diamonds Are Forever/screaming “I LOVE THIS WOMAN” as pigeons fly around commercials. And it’s not even a commercial, it’s real life! Plus, at least it’s not another flash mob.

Graffiti Proposal from PR!MO on Vimeo.

Why it’s not a great idea to copy and paste web content into print. Click Here to see why

Old School Chat Room,  chatting version 1.0. Before the Internet

KW as anchor text a key ranking factor? NOT ANYMORE suggests this SEO case study on top 10 outdoor clothing brands.

This blog post is part of my blogging for 365 days series.

Easy version control for Linux RabbitVCS.

I met the Broderick’s Brothers last week while I was going a bit of freelance work.  I got a chance to sample some of the bars and left the rest in with the lads in the coworking space on Lower Mount Street. As usual, we ended up talking about web stuff and @barrybroderick directed me to their website. When I was poking about, I found this video and it made me laugh

The social media idiot revisited .. “There are still a lot of companies out there that completely miss the point of social media. Worse yet, they are spending paid media dollars and building out “socialized” web and mobile assets while forsaking their core properties.”

This one comes courtesy of Louise .. cute puppy whistle.

This blog post is part of my blogging for 365 days series.

Icon Reference Chart – A comprehensive chart of icon information for various platforms and devices.

Sugru’s magical properties mean it can hack almost anything better .. Hack things and buy some ..

7 Tips for Making the Most of Your Coworking Space.

My web development work finds a new home at Spartix.com. Needs a re-design and a new blog .. I’ve added it my my ever expanding list of things to do.

How they Got To 40,310 Facebook Fans In 4 Days. They started with 3,244 fans. 4 days later, we had 40,310 fans. Wow!

Webinar: The 7 Deadly Sins of Landing Page Design with Tim Ash.

This blog post is part of my blogging for 365 days series.

I’ve neglected my blog oh so much over the years and Ive been trying to think how I might redeem myself. So this idea came into my head today ..

I’ve seen people doing a 365 “photo a day” .. it was all the range last year on Flickr. So I thought id try the same with blog posts. So here we go .. Minimum of one blog post per day for 365 days. It doesn’t have to be quality, it just has to be there!

Lets see how this goes!

The dotconf is on next week, but its all booked up. Get your name down on the waiting list.

So at random today I was on Google and did a search for auld wans after this tweet .. look what came up #1

On Tuesday I popped into Xcake in the Science Gallery. Nice mix of people, but I arrived a bit late. I missed most of the action. It got me thinking about developing iphone apps. Well it actually got me thinking about other platforms.

I’m heading out to Milano for dinner with their 15c offer. Its ace.