Damien Mulley

Very busy month or so, slow on doing the updates.

Via Eoin. Virgin Mary statues mixed with pop culture.

iBeacons. This is going to be a very interesting area.

In praise of slow design.

Privacy on the Internet. Hah.

Google logging and storing all your WiFi passwords. Luckily they don’t work with the NSA or anything.

Writing your villain.

1000 Startups in France. Twice as good as U.S.?

Paula Meehan, Ireland Professor of Poetry, a podcast with her. And here’s her poem “Home”.

Coke – Karl Parkinson

Coke Poem by Karl Parkinson from LOQ on Vimeo.

Remember Get Your War On? No? Dick. Go and unmisremember it. Anyway, they’re doing new videos about the NSA.

AOL Dublin game hackathon on September 28th.

Want to invest in Trouble Brewing?

Now this is how you teach history to kids.

This piece on how Ronaldo’s game was developed and improved can teach us all a thing or two about personal or business development.

The Apple sensor band is on the way, the chip is already made and will be in the iPhone 5s.

“Sees creative destruction as natural, necessary, and as their vocation” Hi, I’m Damien.

William Gibson fans, a Tessier Ashpool t-shirt.

Rip it up and start again

Omit needles swords. In mug format.

Happy 4th birthday this week to the amazing archive that is Irish Election Literature.

The Q Camera. All social, all the time.

Don’t stop in your startup until you learn. Nice advice.

Designly is out and prices unveiled.

Storyful plugin to save hours of not-very-fun searching in social media.

Is the baby born yet? App for that, naturally.

Lobbying and tobacco. Ireland.

Testing in Google. Course there’s a blog for that.

Creative people share what creativity is about.

RuPaul, Henry Rollins. Awesome inflective stuff.

Lovely tool made by @Bon allowing you to do nice easy embeds of YouTube videos or Tweets on your WordPress blog.

Wu-Tang Christmas jumper. I want but it won’t arrive before Christmas. Ah c’mon.

How Twitter is used in Ireland.

Beautiful Javascript graphing tool.

The march of social media killing letter writing. In 1871.

Anyone bought a Little Printer?

Trump University. Scamtastic.

Petition to name hurricanes after climate deniers. Yes yes yes.

Superb Cork Opera House lineup for Winter. Patrick McCabe original too!

I love this. This fella just went and bought the rights to the Ireland matches so he could see them and now doing distribution deals.

Another nice use of Vine.

Simple english to explain something complex. Like the Saturn V rocket. This can be applied to so many things these days.

West Wing fans. Have a geekgasm at these Twitter interactions.

Want to sponsor the 2013 Web Awards? Better get in early.

Culture Night Cork 2013 details.

Yeah, you can now smell like Play doh. Sure.

So EdgeRank is a thing from Facebook that calculates who sees your updates and for how long for. They’re tweaking what happens now and you ought to read what the consequences will be. This almost *ducks* seems like SEO for Facebook posts. More.

More innovation from newspapers please.

A big boy did it. T-shirt.

Maybe a lesson for those that want celebs to Tweet about them? What happens when Jamie Heaslip tweets about you.

Scraping for journalists. Nice nice.

Hive

An 80 recipe Bacon cookbook. Bacon popcorn! Sign me up.

I’m doing an Online PR workshop in Limerick (August 29th) and in Dublin (September 2nd. Few places left.

The massive variations in pricing of A4 paper in Ireland. It’s genuinely interesting and some differences!

Laura Gaynor’s exam/results diary.

All the words from A Christmas Carol. On a t-shirt.

How to promote your app. Some great pointers here.

Mindfulness at work. Some handy tips.

You can compete with Walmart and can treat your staff right too. Howdy Ryanair!

The future is already here. Take a pic of your keys, get replacements 3D printed.

A song from the 50s, covered by Bjork on her Debut album, this is it even better in Unplugged format:

Really good post from Treasa on women in tech in Ireland.

Twitter CEO’s language to describe Twitter and elements of Twitter: “Multiplier”, “Conversation is the canvas”, “Live reach”, “Realtime media viewing”, “complimentary” and “social soundtrack”.

This is interesting. Sharknado had the best ratings ever when it was aired again, again. The third viewing had the best ratings. 1.4M when shown first, then 1.9M when on repeat then 2.1M. Hype and chatter and people going along with how insane and silly it is? Rocky Horror for this generation?

“You couldn’t trust any of these three guys to go down to the corner grocery for a pack of cigarettes”. Bruce Sterling on Assange, Stallman, Manning and Snowden and how utterly the world is changed because of what they’ve done.

Really handy graphics production tech that you can use in your newsroom.

Beer intake in the States is going down. Wine and spirits are on the rise.

How to write a screenplay script.

Data behind good Twitter and Facebook posts. What works…

A shirt from some of the same material as spacesuits. Geeky but how useful?

o2 UK will allow you to get some account details if you Tweet them with certain hashtags. Wonder what the data protection issues are around that?

David Ogilvy cheat-sheet.

Zoo owner says Zoos need to go.

If Ireland built a Jaeger (For Pacific Rim fans)

Video editing and other video skills for Smartphone users. Nice idea especially as these devices get better.

I find this intriguing. Gawker will allow you to sub-edit their articles so you can change the headline and some context of a piece and then share it with your friends. Great for buy in to a piece. And so more traffic.

Google, now that they’re an ISP are not fully for net neutrality. As they get older they get far more conservative.

Tramp Press is born and are looking for submissions.

A tumblr of women replying to Sheryl Sandberg’s “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” question.

BBC finally seeing more mobile than desktop usage on their sites.

Wallace and Gromit come to the National Concert Hall in October.

Great great video from Thinkhouse on tattoo culture in Dublin. Nice to see agencies produce their own media. Warning, may make you want to get a another tattoo.

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