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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Some gardeners know how plants think!

Quick post to tell you how the gardening course went. Its been almost 5 years since I’ve done anything horticultural. Being honest, gardening has never been high up on my list of interests. I have completed some basic horticultural /science studies but most of what I covered in that time is now a distant memory. [...]

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Paddy the Palestinian anarchists pigging the Storehouse

I had a great St. Patrick’s week/day this year. It was a bit of an odd one as it’s my first year living in the city centre whilst the Paddy’s day festival was on. I’ve recently moved into an apartment, located on Capel Street with Louise. Before you ask, yes the noise from the street [...]

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Peter Donegan, green fingers gone wild

For anyone who doesn’t already know, Peter Donegan is blogger who is obsessed with everything green. I have a lot of time for Peter and his greener events. I did horticulture in school but always felt like I only had a summary view of the world of horticulture. After a lengthy phone conversation and a [...]

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Anothers Life brings the lives of others back to life

The lives of others was an experimental blog that was started back on March 18th 2008. What made this blog compelling was an anonymous format that provided the ultimate freedom to share or to speak, to mention the unmentionable and to explore feelings and emotion. Almost two years on and the site has now closed [...]

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BTW meetup April 29th 2010

As part of the latest round of ad-hoc meet-ups in Dublin (Ireland) .. we decided to run another Blogger-Twitter-Whatever (BTW) meetup. The plan is to meet in the KOH, Cocktail Lounge (Dublin) at 7pm on Thursday 29th April. KOH is located on the fashionable Millennium Walkway, which is a pedestrianised street running from the river Liffey [...]

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Weedle Weedle Weedle to launch today

Weedle the new job search thing is due to launch later today. I was at the Weedle preview last night and it looked kind of cool Basically  Weedle are another social network but are a mixture of a golden pages and a social network.  Think of it as a slicker linkedin where you can quite [...]

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BTW in honour of Debbie Metrustry, Tuesday 16th Feb

Sabrina Dent and others contacted me to arrange a Blogger-Twitter-Whatever (BTW)  meetup for next Tuesday 16th Feb in honour of Debbie Metrustry who passed away last week. Debbie Metrustry was known up and down the Irish Internet as @debbiemet. The plan is to meet in the Le Cirk, 32 Dame Street from 5pm on Tuesday [...]

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Bell Ringer Vacancies Christchurch Dublin

I received this email today from my house mate Stephen. We live in Christchurch, quite close to a lot of churches. With all the bell ringing, Stephen gets a bit frustrated ! See his mail below: From: Stephen Kirk Date: 2009/11/27 Subject: Bell Ringer vacancies To: Ringingmaster@cccdub.ie

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Artcamp Dublin, Spring 2010

I’ve managed to get involved with helping to organise another barcamp. We have done barcamps, bizcamps and all that jazz, now its time for Artcamp. The main idea being to help bridge the divide between the artist and technology community. Both artists and technology community have a lot in common and even more learn from [...]

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