Movemeber & Beard.ie

Its been nearly a month since my last blog post! God, time flys.  I have been taking part in Movember for the last month. Movemeber encourages men to grown facial hair, with the aim of raising money for action prostate cancer and the Irish  cancer society. Its a great cause and you can make a [...]

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BTW pre-halloween party

As part of the latest round of ad-hoc meet-ups in Dublin (Ireland) .. we decided to run another Blogger-Twitter-Whatever (BTW) meetup. This time in con junction with the guys in Connector.. It seemed like a good idea to pool our resources. The plan is to meet in the The Purty Kitchen from 7:30pm on Thursday [...]

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Luas Crash

I’m sitting here looking at the 20 pages of search results for Luas Crash on twitter. Not to mention the Picture of the Luas Crash with the Luas crashing into a Dublin Bus on flikr (Viewed 11,689 times). Who needs breaking news when you have twitter? Photo by Steve A

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BTW meetup September 3rd

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 Kudos Bar at The Clarion hotel (IFSC) from 7pm on Thursday 3rd September. (The Kudos Bar is located in the clarion hotel in the IFSC). We will [...]

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Change is good!

I’ve been neglecting my blog for a little while. Like everyone else, the whole micro blogging thing (@jasonroe) is what has been keeping me going. I’m making a commitment here and now to go back “old school” again and resume blogging. You really cant beat a blog in terms of flexibility. There have been so [...]

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Vote Jason Roe, IIA Board Elections 2009

About Jason Roe Jason Roe is an internet consultant specialising in web development, search engine optimisation (SEO) and social media. He has worked in the internet and technology sector for the last six years and has been involved in a number of high profile web development projects such as CRO.ie, Independent.ie and Herald.ie as well [...]

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A little wood turns into a mini tinder box

I’m sure you have probably all heard about this by now.. It seems there was a bit of a burn out going on over at boards.ie yesterday in the bargain alerts forum. Littlewood Ireland aka Shop Direct Ireland Limited had advertised a “Compaq mini desktop with 21.5in monitor”  for €69.99 on their website. 34 pages [...]

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BTW Meetup 11th June

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 up at Howl at the Moon from 6pm on Thursday 11th June. (Howl at the Moon is Located on Lower Mount Street,  just off Merrion square). We will get [...]

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KildareStreet.com Dáil 2.0 goes live!

The ever talented John Handelaar has made a substantial announcement today about a new site called KildareStreet.com The pitch: Up until this morning TDs made 249,489 speeches, and asked 160,503 questions which received written responses. On average, TDs are producing 507 speeches and 326 written answers per sitting day. Sadly you won’t have had access [...]

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ScribeFire for Firefox

Just testing out ScribeFire a Firefox extension for editing your blog. ScribeFire is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser that integrates with your browser to let you easily post to your blog: you can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog. Scribefire Review [...]

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