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Sunday, March 31st, 2013Fluffy Links – Sunday March 24th 2013
Sunday, March 24th, 2013Nice interface for Facebook. Only see updates from connections that share links.
Speaking of Facebook, Facebook Ads workshop on April 18th.
We were getting a baby for Christmas.
These 8 bit glasses please.
Memento is a life-recorder type device. Takes photos every two minutes throughout your day and you can upload them all up later.
Why not go for the original guy? Mad Men can use a Beatles song, they can do this.
Désacraliser (literal translation: ‘to remove from its pedestal’) is the word that Privat uses. Via Mrs Tyrell.
The right way to use Evernote:
Get motherfucking Bulb:
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Dave Grohl, SXSW
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Fluffy Links – Sunday March 17th 2013
Sunday, March 17th, 2013Stories.ie has changed direction (nobody was buying tickets) so we’re doing it on Thursday evening in the Clarion and it’s free. A few tickets are left if you want to grab them.
Two upcoming training courses hosted by Mulley Communications:
Google Analytics workshop on April 2nd
From Rookie to Pro: Facebook Ads workshop on April 18th.
DoneDeal.ie have an Easter competition currently running.
Amazing resource. So many Irish historical pieces collected by a fishmonger all through his life. Took nearly a decade to sort all the information too.
They might have been the next U2, documentary on Lir, fate seemed to have other ideas.
BBC4 now doing Neverwhere as a radio play. Great cast.
David Lynch Blue Velvet cupcakes. Can you guess what they look like? Yeah…
Crafthouse. An evening with Robert Ballagh.
Watched Searching for Sugar Man last night. Wow.
Rodriguez – Cause
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Fluffy Links – March 7th 2013
Thursday, March 7th, 2013Google Analytics Workshop on April 2nd with Laurence Veale. Starting to fill (only 9 places at it) so you know what to do…
And if you want to do a digital marketing course over 4 weeks in Cork in April, I’m doing one for the Cork Chamber.
Good to Know. Handy app from Publicis for anyone into marketing and digital planning.
PINC programme looking for female entrepreneurs for their part-time business startup course.
Outsource human tasks to other humans. Task Rabbit.
Xboxonly movie release. Not a bad idea and could be a great platform for independent movie distribution. Same for bands.
Bugs by Tracy Letts, play we’ll see in Cork, if they get enough funds.
Oh yes, the company now has a Facebook Page.
The technology gap between the young and old is widening. A younger generation knows more and is immersed more while an older generation feels more lost. And so seems to react by setting up Government committees to reign in this tech freedom.
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Fluffy Links – Monday March 4th 2013
Monday, March 4th, 2013The beatings will continue until morale improves. Or, well, the pushing of Stories.ie will keep happening until tickets are sold. I’m quite proud of this event.
Google Analytics Workshop in Dublin on April 2nd I’m helping to organise.
I. Just. I just. Uhm. Bad Robot Surgery.
Rise of the Citizen Influencer. Hmm. Not a fan of “citizen” whatevers or “influencer” whatevers.
Amanda Palmer’s TED talk isn’t mind-blowing or anything but sensible. Worth a watch. Can already see some of her statements being “appropriated” into talks by others.
Edelman Digital talk #promnight.
Henry Rollins – The Iron.
Fun anti-piracy method from Tweetbot.
DCENR’s Twitter policy is simple but good.
Adobe ad: Digital Marketing Bullshit test.
Right here, right now. (from the era where you had to have a dancer when you were a band)
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Fluffy Links – Thursday February 21st 2013
Thursday, February 21st, 2013Digital Marketing Strategy Workshop from Dena Walker on Feb 27th taking bookings for the afternoon version of it now. Selling out fast,
Samsung may be selling a tonne of phones and taking more market share but Apple dominates on profit share.
What Colm learned so far from his WhoIsMyTD web service.
Hilary Claire Woods‘ new album preview sounds lovely.
How Paul got 1000 likes on a page of his.
Iran captures a US drone. Reverse engineers it. Releases video the drone had recorded of the flight. Military propaganda comms from Iran now. Israel are amazing at this.
The history behind Siri. So much more to come from Siri it seems. Also, shocking that this appears to be original content on the Huffpost that isn’t a list.
Terry O’Neill exhibition in Wandesforde Quay ends this week. Go see it. Meanwhile the man himself has an iPad app called Goddesses.
Eirigi show you how to sabotage a water meter and get your neighbours in trouble. I think.
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Fluffy Links – Sunday February 17th 2013
Sunday, February 17th, 2013Karl says get rid of the 100s of Millions in R&D grants in order to fire up real innovation.
Fascinating comment. Netflix – “Become HBO Faster Than HBO Can Become Netflix”
Opening up charity data. UK only right now. Be nice to have here given so many orgs say they’re charities when they are far from it and not even registered.
Bridget Megarry on preparing for her death:
Take out long-term serious illness cover. We didn’t. Having a terminal illness is expensive. We have been saving hard over the past few years for our retirement so I have no hope of a medical card.
One huge KMZ file for Google Earth of all electoral divisions in Ireland. (Pay to access)
The Moves app tracks the steps you take, distance traveled, locations etc. etc. Free. Soaks up battery though.
Via Dangerous Minds: Baby Metal. J-pop death metal.
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Sweet Brown ain’t got no time for a toothache.
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Never knew who she was, just liked the ad. This is how she became famous. Reminds me of reactive marketing like that now legendary Oreo in the dark tweet.
Stories.ie – March 21st 2013
Friday, February 15th, 2013Update: Stories.ie website is now live.
I’ve wanted to use Triskel Church for an event for a while now. Been to some great concerts there. So I’m doing so.
It’s a beautiful location so I didn’t want to do something overly commercial.
So hello Stories.
Stories is where people talk about their business or organisation and share their experiences. No “turning corners”, no “projections”, it’s a relaxed atmosphere where we share and learn.
Speakers lined up for this so far:
Will McInnes who wrote Culture Shock.
Richard Seabrooke who runs Offset.
Daragh Murphy from Hairy Baby.
Pat Phelan from Thai Chef to telecoms company owner to TrustEv.
Caroline Hennessy – Bibliocook and 8 Degrees Brewing.
Jo Mangan from The Performance Corporation.
Cathleen O’Neill from Kilbarrack Community Development Project.
And more speakers to be announced too.
It’ll be on from 10am til about 4.30pm. Lunch included.
Ticket Pricing: Still waiting on catering costs and then I’ll announce them but tickets will probably be around the €65-€70 price.
Pre-sale interest list
If you want to reserve a ticket, fill in this form. You are entitled to say pass come the time the tickets do go on sale.
Official hashtag is: #storiesCork
That Night Follows Day
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013That Night Follows Day was in the Everyman way back in November and I’m finally getting around to writing a piece about it.
It’s been around for years now but seems quite modern at the same time. A bunch of 16 kids, talking about how we adults see them, judge them, look after them, ignore them and so on. Spoken by kids, content is for adults. An hour’s play that’s just factual statement after statement:
You feed us. You wash us. You dress us. You sing to us. You watch us when we are sleeping. You explain to us the different causes of illness and the different causes of war. You whisper when you think we can’t hear.
Written by Tim Etchells. This play is actually intimidating for those in the audience. Being called out for bullshit, the way we treat young people, the way we interact with ourselves. Silences and stares making you uneasy in your seat. It’s excellent. Funny moments and serious and dark tinges.
The audience when we were there were mostly the parents of the kids and were laughing and clapping at many parts of the play. Kids saying fucking and motherfucking seemed to have gotten a shocked and hilarious reaction from the crowd. Naturally a whopping standing ovation at the end. And warranted.
A very talented bunch of kids. Some amazing performances from some in particular. Worth seeing when it comes back into your town.
Living and Loss at the Glucksman
Saturday, February 9th, 2013I was in many minds about this exhibition. An art exhibition about illness and death is always going to get you thinking about these topics. That’s the idea surely. The Year of Magical Wanking has left me thinking for years after seeing it. Selfish introspection bit warning: When you’ve been diagnosed with MS in about a half a second you think about your illness, death, impending death, helplessness and knowing what you always suspected deep inside you: that you will not live forever. So let’s go down to the ballgame (or art exhibition) and reexamine all of this. *And we breathe in as we start walking around.* I gather that those that are ill and are post-illness are going along to this too and maybe it’s cathartic for some of them.
The Damien Hirst stuff to me is boring, I like his sliced up animals in formaldehyde and some of his other works but he’s far too commercial and mill school for my liking these days. There are some in-jokes for his posters of medicines, for those that work in pharmaceuticals or the medical profession.
The two most powerful pieces to me are the paintings of Cecily Brennan and the photography of Jo Spence.
Cecily Brennan’s paintings here of the skin of children: psoriasis on a baby’s hands and chest, eczema etc. pains you that such fragile beings are hurting from this. It certainly makes you feel powerless and protective. Other paintings of post-op skin grafts and stapling are still quite impactful.
Jo Spence’s photographic self-portraits of herself and her breasts and the changes pre and post-operation while she deals with breast cancer get to you. Her looking out, cold clinical, factual, something unseen trying to change her life. Giving something a name gives you power over it and Jo writes “Property of Jo Spence” on her breast. Her pieces in this exhibition bring you from the start all the way through to the end of this. I’ll be going back again just to see her photographs.
There are works too from Martin Cree, Laura Potter, Mary Rose O’Neill, Paul Seawright and Thomas Struth. Local Cork artists The Project Twins also have a few more modern pieces that have a bit of fun with the ideas of pills and medicine. Worth seeing too.
When you compare the topics and content of an art exhibition or any kind of content to your own life, you’re knitting them around your own thoughts about your life This exhibition and Jo Spence for certain will be remembered by me for much longer perhaps more than some watercolours of fields in some art museums.
On the topic of touchy feely stuff, I’ll be on a men-only panel (How this Week in Politics!) at Banter about men and their feelings. I’ll be talking about “coming out” with my MS and the positive and negative results of putting it all out there. Living and Loss runs until March 10th 2013.