Damien Mulley

Never Enter The Kitchen Empty-Handed and other productivity mantras.

Those new tabs in GMail are definitely impacting on newsletters. Wonder will a premium tool be used by Google to help marketing people?

Some good stats from Karl about Broadsheet.ie, iPhone app is dominant. Facebook and Twitter very good for traffic.

Public Service Broadcasting does not just mean RTÉ: Nice piece by Jim Carroll.

Of course, given the plurality of media in 2013, there are many more media organisations than RTE who could claim to be doing that

The advantages of putting your prices on your website. I may try this,

BoingBoing writer describes a hypnotherapy session. Very interesting.

How Twitter deals with rumours. Note many of the sinners in this are media people:

Distilled Media (Daft) doing fairly well in website traffic. DoneDeal.ie and IrishTimes.com look pretty even, traffic wise.

The Indo group is structuring their papers to be more like channels for a single news production entity it seems. A group head of news, group business editor and group sport editor are due to be in the jobs before September.

The iPad totally and utterly dominates tablet website traffic in the U.S.

Learning.
Two online learning organisations just starting out.

LearnLode in Cork.

PBLearn was built by two NUI Galway Students.

Youth entrepreneurship in order to tackle youth unemployment. This seems to be only the first of three posts and not much in it, just yet.

Shirts.io – An API for t-shirt printing. Plug your website into it and they do printing, handling, shipping. US only. Worth doing in Ireland maybe?

Smartphones are leaky data devices. They’re insecure portable computers with cameras, microphones and Internet connections. We won’t wear a tracking device on our ankles but yet…

Souvenir Art Trail on Saturday in Dublin. A sprint to get cheap art is what it really is.

Fuck Buttons playing Dublin on September 14th. New album is out now.

Jay Brannan also playing on the 14th of September.

Richard Feynman – the graphic novel

Data helps to show Team Sky cyclist was actually consistent and not doping.

LastFM, better than Spotify for making money for artists.

The family and company that manages/parents the gang from Odd Future. They sound more like guardians than managers. Very interesting how the deal with the record company isn’t about singles but creating a cross-channel production group. This could apply to other industries too I should think.

Snail facials. Next up, deer lick leg waxing.

Landing pages tip: work backwards.

What is Red Bull? The Red Bull strategy. The author calls this “Storydoing”, honestly, another fake word that you can claim ownership of. If you forgive that though, it’s a good piece:

Red Bull has become a packaged-goods company that is also a content creation company that is also an events company that is also an adventure sports lifestyle company.

Text for a coffee. ZipWhip text enables various devices.

Ketil Bjørnstad and David Darling – Upland

Well done J.K. Rowling.

All of this. All. Paul Graham on making every customer count and how you go WAY out of your way to sign up customers especially at the start. See the Collison example.

Pinterest generates foot traffic to stores.

Running a Social Media Strategy workshop with Gina Bowes on July 30th.

Nice API for on-demand printing for posters, prints etc. Printful.

Yarrly. Remix photos. Android only, for now.

Two new naval vessels named after male writers. James Joyce, Samuel Beckett.

Instagram is good for sales in Kuwait.

Online PR and Social Media fundamentals. From Michelle Goodall.

Social media Return on Investment measured at 3:1. Obligatory question mark goes here so as not be for this or against this statement in case I’m questioned.

Detailed talk/report from Alastair Campbell on how PR is changing massively.

So if PRs were so good at PR, why did PR get such a bad reputation? Answer, in my view, partly because some PRs aren’t actually so good at it, but also because the real spin doctors in the modern world are journalists, broadcasters and bloggers

Written and acted by a 17 year old. Amazing talent. Beautiful language.

UCC and IMI Diploma in Management at a massively reduced price for SMEs. You can also do this course in Dublin.

And on management, Beacon is there to help SMEs in Cork County. Sign up for a virtual management team.

Quick piece in The Economist on how Democrats and Republicans use language when campaigning. I always notice that the Republicans are on-message and have the better catchphrases. Especially when in opposition. Death panels, eh?

Little Lady Fauntleroy. Oddness.

I wasn’t really switched into 500px before but some amazing work on it now. Too many filters and touching ups though. Great blog post on this Ricky Chapman project.

Food Herp. “The spreading of a craving/desire for a specific food or restaurant from person to person. ”

Gerald Manley Hopkins – Now in festival form.

Heartbeats of those in a choral group will synch with the music. So much of ourselves we can adjust with the mind alone.

Digital Strategy 101 from Bud Caddell.

How to Stay Sane.

Gummy bear popsicles. You can also add booze but soak the gummy bears in them otherwise the popsicle won’t freeze due to the booze.

Crisis Comms. A playbook on the EPA website.

Cork Chamber are doing an event on July 30th. Social Media Wake-up Call.

Advice on making apps also applies to building anything, including a company. “Find something in your life that is broken and write software to fix it.”

Workshop – New Business Models: Digital Marketing Strategies and the New Distribution Landscape

Great photo-bomb.

Irish people and funny signs, the Feck one.

Tile. Find your stuff using Bluetooth. I want one that alerts me when I’m going too far away from the item. Sore experience when leaving a laptop in a cab.

Cartoon labels on cigarette pack warning stickers might work better than normal warnings.

Via Dangerous Minds, Doctor Who theme slowed down and stretched to 21 minutes. Pretty good.

Frillseeker.ie is the new website from Kirstie formerly of House Beaut.ie. Pretty site about accessories and so much more.

Old people by law have power over their adult kids in China. “On the same day, a court in the eastern city of Wuxi ruled in the case of a 77-year-old mother who had sued her daughter for not visiting her and for failing to help her financially. The court ordered the daughter to do both, or face fines or even detention”

It all goes back to sales and shoe leather. In the heart of the start-up world, some have become door to door salespeople.

Play companies and real companies. An awful lot of startups in Ireland seem to be play companies. Or dole companies since they’re bankrolled by the civil service. CLOUDMOBILELOCALSOCIALCON.

CIT are offering a number of free Spingboard college courses (you must be unemployed to avail)

Rick Rubin on music but probably everything else:

There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.

A lot of it has to do with structure, because the structure of the music industry is rooted in a corporate structure. It’s a quarterly business, but art is not a quarterly business

A daily summary of news in 5 pieces, nice format but think it can’t be as general as this. Maybe if it’s people with great personalities and insights and taking different areas.

Or are you glad to see me? Men’s patterned pants. The pattern being lots of penises.

Whoever imagined Gifs would come back to the web and be so strong? Another Gif app.

5 tips for surviving change. We need to get Bud Caddell over to Ireland some time.

How to shamelessly self-promote your tech startup.

Rockstar Startup storytelling.

From the Take Shelter soundtrack, good if slow-moving film.

LinkedIn training course in Cork, July 8th.

Vinecrawler. A Vine search engine. This is a search for Ireland on it.

Speaking of which, feature comparisons between Vine and Instagram video. Not going to upgrade to InstaVid though. Different channels in my view.

And still on that. Burberry puts their entire London show on Vine.

Irish Times and the Indo both to get paywalls in 2013. Great for the smaller news sites, if they cease on this. Free content is unfortunately better than quality content, volume wise. Ironic too that the newspapers who seem to want kickbacks from RTÉ will help traffic to RTÉ with this move.

Hello Brewing.ie

Hell is other people. Avoiding your “friends” by using their Foursquare connections against them.

Heard John Cooper Clarke on RTÉ Arena read this the other night. I wanna be yours.

I wanna be your vacuum cleaner
Breathing in your dust

Sit back for 15 minutes…