Damien Mulley

The Toll of Tokenism.

For the week that’s in it, remember Barmbrack? Pumpkin carving is in, this odd cake thing is out.

Via Piaras. Another example of marketing with Snapchat.

A mini-guide to advertising on Instagram. I’d love to see the results.

Younger and younger they get. Babies area using apps on mobiles and tablets already. Plenty of parents I know have apps on their devices to keep their kids occupied at the most opportune times.

The next Guerrilla Gourmet Club is on Friday, November 15. Yum yum yum.

So teens have a little extra privacy built into their Facebook than adults. Wonder why adults don’t get that automatically too?

Tarkovsky Films Now Free Online (Him that did Solaris and others)

I like this success story as it’s very grounded and goes through how it’s not all rockstar underwater cars and parties.

Campfire Cologne.

Netflix about to have more subscribers than HBO. Faster and faster they go…

I’ll drink to that
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Jim Carroll on what comes next for Diageo and us after Arthur’s Day.

Chapter One, the book. Perfect for Christmas.

The Web Awards are looking for a few more sponsors, if you’re interested.

G.K. Chesterston predicting Malcolm Gladwell, Gary Vee, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Seth Godin et all. In 1915.

our modern world is full of books about Success and successful people which literally contain no kind of idea, and scarcely any kind of verbal sense.

Has anyone tried this for their business? Advertising on a porn site.

New Arlene Hunt novel out soon called The Outsider.

I like this. James Bridle making the invisible that’s all around us become visible.

If Apple did smoke detectors…

And the first cars in Kerry were owned by… A lot of surnames that weren’t here after 1920.

Sam Smith – Nirvana
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No Ceremony
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Thank you. Been saying this for years. Teenagers are well aware of their social network privacy settings, the parents that try and spy on them, however are not. They whitewall their Facebook, they remove GPS in photos…

Come home for your tea. Kinsale Arts Festival October 12th and 13th. Listings.

New platforms for poetry.

Cocaine Diaries: Story of a Drug Mule. The opening of this documentary is fantastic and it goes on and on. Fascinating and scary.

Go to Defuse on November 7th. Will be worth it.

Google Analytics to measure your home.

You are using Google NGram, right?

The form for applying for Late Late Toy Show tickets.

Who was the first person to register a motorbike in Kerry? Or car? And the reg? Find out.

Janis Joplin on…
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Come Home for Your Tea vid

Come Home for Your Tea with Kinsale Arts Festival from Kinsale Arts Festival on Vimeo.

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.

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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
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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.
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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
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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:
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