Damien Mulley

While waiting for the AA to come along and start my car this morning, a few links for your pleasure.

New blogs on the block for this week.

Sponsorship for the Blog Awards 2007 is now open. Each category will cost EUR270 to sponsor. Seven of the 21 categories have already been booked.

I like the latest delicious homepage widget but jeez, this could have been released years ago.

Gotta love the cut-throat car advertising market.

Some fucking idiot in the states put her grandchild through an airport x-ray scanner

So maybe Bebo wasn’t the top search for 2006. Seems the search engine people have been filtering/censoring their top searches lists.

This is a really cool way of giving a Christmas present to employees. Origami using a 100 dollar bill, wrapping an iPod Shuffle.

L.E.D. Reindeer on a billboard run by pedal power.

End of year roundtable discussion on the Last Word show on TodayFM this evening at 1730. On it will be Rex Combs, CEO of eircom, John Doherty, ComReg Commissioner, Fran Rooney from Ice Broadband and Damien Mulley from IrelandOffline.

I strongly suggest listening in if you want decent broadband or any kind of brodaband. If you want to make a comment then email: lastword@todayfm.com or text in using the shortcode: 53102 (Normal text rates apply)

Fox Sports as bad as Fox News. Someone in fox really really doesn’t like Liverpool FC.

Sign up to trial LouderVoice.

Opera browser runs on the 100 dollar laptop.

The Darfur Wall. Art and so much more.

This time it is Sony caught with a fake “blog”.

670m spent online in one day. Christmas frenzy.
China is restricting foreign adoptions. You need to be rich, not fat, not gay, married a while

As things start to ramp up for the Irish Blog Awards 2007, I thought it might be a good idea to do a census or a survey of who we are and how we go about what we’re doing. It will also be an additional way of getting some attention for the Blog Awards if it is released the week of the Awards. It might go some way to answer the who, the what and the where.

I’ve emailed a few bloggers on this and they’ve provided some fantastic questions to ask but the more input the better. What questions would you like to ask of Irish Bloggers? I was thinking that a survey of 30 questions at most is probably enough before people get tired/annoyed/bored of answering. There have been many complaints previously on surveys about Irish Bloggers, so for once, let the Irish bloggers dictate what will be in the survey.

Er, there isn’t such a category at the Blog Awards and that word is mank, but in time, you never know, there could be an award of that type. There are many Irish people who have done a lot to make podcasting popular in Ireland but in my personal view there’s one who was there at the start, spread the word to all who would listen, showed how it could be done, created countless podcasts on varying topics and really and sometimes annoyingly, evangelised the shit out of podcasting. Today, this week, this month he is still throwing lots of energy into showing the potential for podcasting.

Who’s this person? Well today he went off to collect a person of the year award while over in the UK. Now while some people made the damaging statement that I have an axe to grind with Bernie Goldbach and we have some old rivalry going on, I don’t think that is the truth at all. I’m still not into podcasting and still haven’t made my own podcast as I don’t have the energy and passion to do it (though I did buy a mic for recording recently) but Bernie and his utility belt weighed down with gadgets and his portable recording studio in the shape of a wheeled travel bag has energised Irish podcasting. He deserves recognition for what he has done for the Irish podcasting scene and maybe in time that’ll get reflected in more than inbound links to him.

Well done Bernie.

FF press release bollox.

Suzy fact-checks the latest copy and paste story from the Indo.

YouTube – a fantastic medium for those that sign. Brilliant use of an existing technology. Good show!

Google stopping/not supporting their search API? Apparently it was shit anyway.

Another great Liam Daly painting, this one is of Kinsale.

Edelman are doing “hosted conversations” or Ad Widgets as Gigaom are calling them. Lets hope this will go better than that Walmart sham.

Justin Timberlake and the SNL crew suggest a special Christmas present for the ladies:

The Minister to Nowhere, courtesy of VoteTube.org:

The 12 Youtubes of Christmas

I took the crap, the weird, the odd, the tack and the Christmassy and threw them together for this. The last video at the end of this post will play each video one after the other.

On the first day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
A partridge:

in a pear tree:

On the second day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Two turtle doves:

And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the third day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Three French hens:

Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the fourth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Four calling birds:

Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the fifth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Five golden rings:
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the sixth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Six geese a-laying:
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the seventh day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Seven swans a-swimming:
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the eighth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Eight maids a-milking:
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the ninth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Nine ladies dancing:
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the tenth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Ten lords a-leaping:
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the eleventh day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Eleven pipers piping:
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the twelfth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Twelve drummers drumming:

Eleven pipers piping,
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

Full Recap:

Kathy Sierra on conference t-shirts that should be made for women too. Now if only we had women to go to Irish tech conferences. I’ll get WD40 for that gate.

Nice rules for organising conferences.

Open letter to porn on Craigslist.

A Cowbell Easter Egg in GMail Chat. This is cowbell:

Colm O’Gorman has a “blog”. Press release archive really.

How to be a wine snob. Would Julian approve?

At long bloody last old people can get the free phone option with mobiles. All along it was a landline only option. Makes complete sense to give free phones to OAPs. A Dom Jolly sketch comes to mind “HELLO? WHAT? NO, I’M COLLECTING MY PENSION. NO, THEY ALL SMELL OF PISS.”

Jesus Christ, I thought Sascha Baron-Cohen was taking the piss when he said Borat was attending the holocaust denial conference. I guess not. Taking the piss that there was such a conference I mean.

Manuel is back and writing some fascinating pieces. Is welcome you are back.

Bill Clinton doesn’t like Santa:

I love this. Ths guy manages to quickly and easily train his cat to turn on a light switch:

Gimme a text if you’re about Dublin. Number is on contact page.

Add the Blog Awards as a friend on Bebo. Coming soon … one for IrelandOffline.