Seems a date has been put down for eircom to sue ComReg in the Commercial court about ComReg’s recent line share price reductions.
Commercial Court goes on hols at the end of the month so either they don’t go to Costa Del Law and listen to the case or they do and the case is adjourned until October. Meaning line share prices are frozen until then.
Stay tuned.
This media training for startups I mentioned will take place in Dublin on August 6th. City centre venue will be announced soon. I’ve emailed everyone that put their names down for it and the response rate has been quite low. Perhaps it got thrown into the spam folder? 🙂 If you didn’t get my email about it, let me know.
There may be upcoming sessions for those that want the legal basics for starting a company and if enough tech companies attend, specifics for tech companies might be covered. Anyone interested in a legal bootcamp for startups? It won’t be done by me, obviously.
No Fluffy Links yesterday on this here blog and I appear to be still on the road today. But Linkmap, Will Knott and Maman Poulet took up the challenge instead. Yaysies.
Feedback on IrishBlogs.ie still wanted.
Can you feed two people in a week for €50? I guarantee this is going to be a feature in a newspaper or as a piece in a radio show in the next few weeks. The betting though is on whether attribution will be given.
Via Ian of the Thrill Piers. Bon Iver Daytrotter session. BTW, is Ian the most gigged out music blogger in Ireland?
Una gives the goss on Fringe. Nice. Am there.
Holy Fuck coming back. Yay.
Via Kerry: Buzzwords for 2008. Infosnacking is one I dislike greatly.
Via Kottke:
Terminator 2 set to inappropriate music
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Sitting on the space where the Waxworks used to be, this is a very new hotel from the Comfort Inn group. It’s become such a regular hotel for me now that the staff know me and ask when I’ll be back next. Best asset for them is their very friendly staff. Next up are their prices. €79 midweek, €89 later in the week which can go up to €169 on weekends depending on how late you leave it. You get a twin, single or double room for those prices. Prices per room not per person sharing. Brekky not included. Fine for me.
Rooms are brand new, well furnished, air con and broadband in each room. Ethernet cable in the rooms and wireless in reception.
Where they don’t get their 5th star is on the building itself. Built in the boom, corners were cut. So some of the showers leak or the fittings don’t fit that well. It’s the same for their hotel in Smithfield. Still though, a great price and lovely staff.
It rocked.
Met Rick. You know, that rocked more. Wearing the pimp hat and feather though and the cane? Does he think he’s Gerry Ryan now or something?
Good to see the blogternity there too. Big up to fab movies site Movies.ie too. How many of the audience will go and see it again and more than once? A lot I’d say. How many straight men will not find Christian Bale hot but will have a man crush on the Joker?
Oh and I’m on the road at the moment so blog service will return soon enough. I challenge y’all to do your own fluffy links.
I’m working with Roger from IrishBlogs.ie at the moment to get feedback from the Irish Blogging Community on how they want to see IrishBlogs.ie progress. A survey is now up asking people what changes they’d like to see to the site and in what priority. Roger won an Award at the first Blog Awards for his contribution to the Irish Blogging community because of the way IrishBlogs.ie brought so many of us together. It’s still a community focused site today.
There will be some changes to the way the site looks as well as some under the hood changes to add some features which will hopefully make the site even more useful. While we’re excited about some of the changes we think can be made, the crowd and the community always trump the ideas of a few. So tell IrishBlogs.ie what you want to see from the site.
Please also spread the word and encourage as many others as possible to give feedback via the survey. The more the merrier.
This rocks. Lidl Treats. A blog about good stuff you can get in Lidle. Read this nice list of good stuffs. Now if they got their feed added to Twitter. Such a great concept for a blog.
Recessions are good now? Scarcity is too.
Wine in a can. A beautiful can though.
This is broken. Nice site on bad design.
So you can get around someone blocking their phone number?
Anyone applying for Seedcamp?
FFFFound and fonts. Yum.
The Pleasure of Finding Things out. Richard Feynman. This is part 1 of 5
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So a wrestler asks for a chair to belt a guy. A possible drunk audience decides on mass participation:
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Little Boots – Ready for the fun (Hotchip cover)
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Via Email from the ad team:
The most basic change that you’ll notice is that ads will now appear on the right side of Facebook pages instead of on the left. The new placement integrates the ads into the new site design in a meaningful way. As many as two ads may show at one time on any given page.
In addition to these changes, you will also see a new ad on the home page. This new ad is located just to the right of the News Feed, and will initially run a limited set of advertisers. As this space continues to evolve and improve, we’ll provide more details.
So at least three ads on a profile now? (Not including banners) General users can’t bid on the one next to the newsfeed. We’ll see more tomorrow I suppose when the new look goes live.
I’ve been thinking for a while about the way I do business and how at various talks and training gigs I recommend various people. I even have an “I recommend” page on this here blog. I carry some cards of people around but honestly I’d love to carry more cards if I had room and then there’s the issue of topping up on the cards.
So I was thinking of getting cards printed with maybe 7-8 lines with a check box on each line and list those people from my I recommend page. When talking to someone then I’d say “This guy here” as I tick the box next to Richard Hearne, for example. Or tick two or three boxes. Much easier than people writing their details down.
So each line would have:
Person’s Name/Business Name – What they do – Web address
Or something like that. I wonder would an enterprising printing company bring out a template to make this easy for people? It’s a mini social network on a piece of paper. If we can do the Tuesday Push on blogs, we could do another form on cards. However, the recommendations should be genuine and there shouldn’t be horsetrading of the type “I’ll put you on my card if you’ll put me on yours”.
Anyway, I must go printing these.
Photo owned by surprise truck (cc)