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Johnston Press’s pay wall falls over..

Days after my blog post “Pay walls going up for Irish traditional media“, the very people who inspired  confidence in pay walls  for online regional new publishers are now taking them right back down again. I hate to tell you I told you so, but .. pressgazette.co.uk reports that Johnston Press halts pay wall experiment: [...]

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Pay walls going up for Irish traditional media

This week a number of Irish regional news websites have started charging for content. Chances are that you haven’t already spotted this. I say that this because if you are anything like me, you probably consume media a lot differently than the masses. Before I start, I want you to know that I was previously [...]

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First free wallpaper / desktop background.

I made this with a heap of brushes in photoshop .. let me know if you like it.  I can confirm that I did not hurt my Geansai Gorm while making this! DOWNLOAD 1024 x 768 DOWNLOAD 1680 x 1050

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New Dublin coworking space

Photo owned by Francesco Crippa (cc) Eamon Leonard who was formally involved in TL01. Is planning to set up a new coworking space in Dublin. He already has Ken Stanley the self appointed “web standards legand” on board. See coworking.ie for more details. If your interested in getting involved leave a comment or pop Eamon [...]

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Second coworking location for Dublin

Over the last month, I have been working in the background to secure additional coworking locations in Dublin. The theory behind this is to make coworking more accessible and available. See my full post on coworking.ie – J

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Menupages Pimped IPv6

It looks like there is some cool stuff coming out of blacknight at the moment. I noticed that they just announced some customers opting for ipv6! In other news, the guys in blacknight will be announcing a totally new hosting platform! I had a sneak peak at the new control pannels / billing today (it [...]

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Running a bit late, day two coming soon!

I haven’t got my notes from day two of enterprise start with me. As such, there will be a bit of a delay on the full gory details! The second day covered what’s required in a business plan and what investors are looking out for. We took a bit of a detour mid way through [...]

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Enterprise Start, Day 1 – The Entrepreneurial Mindset

Today was the first day of the Enterprise Start programme run by the PDC (Hothouse) in DIT. I am going to detail some of what I took out of each day. I will post it up here each day (Friday and Saturday for 6 weeks) feel free to comment etc. A word of warning, I [...]

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Coworkers .. I didn’t forget, I swear!

I have been a bit bogged down with work over that last month. After picking the winner of the co-working competition (ended on the June 29th), I somehow couldn’t find the time to announce our findings or a winner.. That’s no excuse! … So I’m going to increase the prize pool to €150 cash and [...]

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Busy, busy, busy Im back!

It’s been a very busy month for me. Fear not, Im back! Coworking Ireland has really taken off over the last month. We now have 4 active bloggers contributing to the project. Pop over to coworking.ie and take a look at some of the interesting topics being discussed. Don’t forget to subscribe to the Coworking [...]

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