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John’s Book of Alleged Dances
Thursday, July 5th, 2012Fluffy Links – Monday July 3rd 2012
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012Imogen Bertin talks Uncollege and the changing ways of education.
It’s mobile mobile mobile web. And that means massive opportunity.
Using a remote controlled helicopter (stop calling it a drone) to spy on Facebook and Google offices. Oh yeah, take that giant corporations.
Work in tech? RoleConnect would like you to do a quick survey on the way and method that recruiters contact you.
Meaning Conference. Brighton, October 1st. A conference that helps people to make their business more social and other new-thinking ideas.
Google Now. Gives you answers to questions you haven’t asked yet… Really.
but the nefarious thing about Twitter and other social media is that it starts to fill all the gaps in your day
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Epiphany – Trailblaze at Cork Midsummer
Sunday, July 1st, 2012Trailblaze came to Cork for the Cork Midsummer Festival and it took place in the Triskel. A great line-up of speakers in a beautiful location.
Everyday Epiphanies and Altered States was the theme for their first time in Cork.
Speakers were Steve Collins, Dylan Tighe, Carmel Winters, Niamh Gunn, Sheena Matheiken, Brother Richard, Robbie Hamilton, Stevie G
I liked a good few talks and ones that shone through was one from Brother Richard for the UCC Chaplaincy and a talk from Carmel Winters really resonated. It was a story about her Aunt Eily who was in a convent til her 70s. A great short talk about seeking truth and truths and the idea two different ideas can be right and wrong at the same time. I would listen to her all day, great intellect and language skills.
There’s one more post about a Midsummer event and then I’m done about it for a while I’m sure. Overall I really liked the eclectic mix of events I got to see. A lot of imagination, youth and energy was experienced by me. I hope that the energy, I sucked in like a vampire will help me with things I do for work and pleasure in the next few months. Batteries certainly were recharged in the past 10 days because of these events. It’d be great to see more people at the events of course. Maybe there should be a big brother, big sister type programme to bring people that have never been before.
Court: In the Name of the People #corkmidsummer
Saturday, June 30th, 2012Court. Running for a few days in the Cork Midsummer festival was Court. The setting was the Court House in Cork City. A beautiful building I was never in before. A choir used the space, which being a place of large rooms and pillars can be interesting. The pitch for the event is thus:
For In The Name Of The People, we encounter the Cork Chamber Choir in the imposing entrance hall of the court house, who move through the space and sing an a capella rendition of a Renaissance liturgy as well as texts from judgements laid down in this building.
The choir first sang down to us in the foyer area and then walked down.
Part of their work was name-checking Irish cases and reading from judgments that occurred within the walls of this Court. The choir also walked around, in and around the crowd themselves. The sound was fantastic and I loved the concept. In a way it takes the energy from the ghost from lives that have been changed in this building and brought them out through accessible singing.
Nice to see the Court opened up too. All in all, I liked it. Might have been a tad too “comedic” at the start but the visceral Court experiences later on made it a strong enough piece. Delighted I legged it from Dublin and got to see it.
Poor iPhone sound:
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Fluffy Links – Monday June 25th 2012
Monday, June 25th, 2012Chuggers caught scamming people. Shock horror. Remember that these chuggers are on 15 euros an hour, the company they work for supposedly get up to 300 euros when they sign you up. Greed not bettering the world is the motivation for these charities.
Silence. A film about the lack of sound by Pat Collins.
Via Paul Savage. Removing your email contacts from Facebook.
A real use for these Near Field Communication enabled phones. Real smart tags. Wave your phone over a tag on your bedside locker, sticks phone on silent and sets an alarm.
Scamworld take on Chris Brogan. Gary Crushit next please.
Respect our robotic overlords
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Fluffy Links – Saturday June 23rd 2012
Saturday, June 23rd, 2012I wrote a freewheeling piece for Irish Comic News this week on the idea of routing around traditional gatekeepers, be they banks, media, publishers and son on.
Want to tell a story? The Pixar way is fascinating and useful.
MSc in Marketing Practice. From CIT. Full-time.
What a “hands-on” with a Microsoft Surface really means.
The Crawford Degree Show was on this week. Well worth going to.
Via the IIEA mailing list but not on their website:
Seminar: The Future of News Journalism in an Internet World
Monday, 2 July 2012 at 12.45p.m.
This seminar will draw from the extensive experience of an expert panel including: Noel Curran, Director General of RTE; Kevin O’Sullivan, Editor of the Irish Times; Anne O’Dea, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Silicon Republic; and Brian Fallon, Director of Distilled Media Ltd. Panelists will reflect on issues such as the response of media institutions to the deepening digital era. This seminar will analyse the changing landscape of news journalism and the challenges facing traditional media from the perspective of the broadcasting, print, and online media.
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If Aaron Sorkin could write for Obama
Monday, June 18th, 2012For instance, you need the wealthiest people to pay higher taxes. Why not frame it as a patriotic sacrifice? Why not say that for generations now, it has been mostly the sons and daughters of working-class families who have fought our wars for us, with many of them paying the ultimate sacrifice? This is a national emergency now, because of what happened in 2008, and we’re going to call on a different group of Americans to make a patriotic sacrifice. We need you, for a certain amount of time, to pay an additional 4 percentage points, to simply go back to the Clinton tax rates. It’s not going to hurt, and we’re all going to appreciate it. Why not sell it that way? I would have suggested that, but there would have been nineteen people in the room smarter than I am. I don’t believe for a second that nobody thought of that—I just believe I’m not smart enough to figure out the reason it wouldn’t work.
Fluffy Links – Saturday June 16th 2012
Saturday, June 16th, 2012Brian Honan talks about how blogging has helped his company. Good for SEO, great as a form of PR.
Training courses. June 25th and 26th in Cork. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. Or via Chambers, doing them in August in Cork.
Sometimes you don’t need VCs for your business. Sometimes you do.
Mobile Monday folks are coming to Cork on July 9th for a lunch time event.
This lunchtime showcase event will showcase a sample of Cork-based businesses (Yougetitback and TransAct Carbon) that deal in the mobile space. We’ll also hear from Barry O’Neill (mobile games) about future trends in mobile and Muirne Laffan about the RTE mobile strategy.
Cork based. Recession Busting Moms are a really fun Facebook Page. Very cute ideas on it. Should be Mams not Moms of course. Bring back Mams!
Having an ATM in your gaff? Love it.
Best pitch video I’ve seen:
Fluffy Links – Saturday June 9th 2012
Saturday, June 9th, 2012More great work from Annie Atkins. We Love You Oakland. See it in Dublin.
Tuneyards, Questlove and more do a single.
This amazes me. How news is coming to us. News via Facebook for this lady. She heard about the floods after a call that told her look at Facebook.
From the famous one of the woman who had cancer but didn’t to more local versions on Twitter in Ireland of building people up on Twitter before the big reveal, the Internet and Twitter in particular seems to have a small number of people that seem to have Munchausen by Internet.
Internet Freedom conference in Dublin. Cory Doctorow will be present. June 18th and 19th.
ITU Young Innovators competition. Open to 18-25. Got an idea that can change the world? Submit it.
Visited RTÉ Digital the other day. Very promising stuff being done by them. The whole org very much getting a digital layer.
Flame Challenge. Explaining science to kids, love this idea.
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A Dark Horse – Take Me Home
Sunday, June 3rd, 2012James from A Dark Horse sent me details of this beautiful song and great video. The reasoning of the video also is:
Basically it’s the stand by me moment of our lives. We’re all just gone 30. So it just fitted in with a song that is about walking your own path but remembering the past. (It’s not a euro song as some have misunderstood, just a timing issue)
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