Via a survey from LastMinute.com
Most popular male celebs to holiday with (Irish):
1. Colin Farrell
2. Des Bishop
3. Tommy Bowe
4. Brian O’Driscoll
5. Any member of Westlife
While Kathryn Thomas beats Grainne Seoige and Sharon Ní Bheolan?
New blog (to me) from Humphrey Jones. “More Stress, Less Success is a blog about being a teacher – a busy one.”
Nice app for Cork Tourism. Top ten places to check out.
Fancy that. Load of wine bars in West Cork now. Totally agree with the dislike of laminated menus.
Sales of tea, ham and batch bread soar as GAA season reaches climax.
Facebook Questions has an Easter Egg! Love it.
Book for adults done as a kids book. All my friends are dead.
Via the brilliant Berg Blog. A ball controlled by moving your phone.
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Via Fabulist: Sarah Blasko – No Turning Back
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Keith Bohanna is running a Getting Things Done training day at the end of August. Also, because he likes me, €25 off if you quote DM or “Mulley is a bollox”. Up to you.
Congrats to the IIA with their Digital Marketing Diploma course.
Laura Jane Cassidy has a competition on her blog for various booky type things.
Philipp Lenssen has brought out a book called “Graphic Adventures: Being a Mostly Correct History of the Adventure Game Classics”. Base material is Wikipedia articles. Great use of open content.
IDEO launch OpenIDEO which is a platform to share innovation ideas to improve the world by looking at specific projects.
Two slightly related. Don’t set goals.
Achievement in games might be a bad thing. What about Foursquare and the like?
Via Jim C on his Phantom Show:
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(This should have gone out on Monday, oops)
Want to win a Robert Roberts hamper? Gráinne has the details.
Great breakdown from Ciara on the costs of the new iPhone 4 in Ireland.
Drew B does crowdsourcing for a week, letting people on Twitter and Facebook make his decisions for him.
Lovely legal opinions highlighted by Google Scholar. Done in rhyme, rant, noir crime style and more.
Instapaper user? Longform is a service like editor picks of good content to read on it.
Mad Men fan? See how their furniture is done.
Beautiful. The 3D revolving yet stylish palindromical sign for the Victoria and Albert tube entrance.
And a video:
Troika_Palindrome from Troika on Vimeo.
Last day of that Facebook sticker for your business and then I send them off to be printed. Get in.
Maura from Easy Schoolbooks has started to blog. I first met her at a training course a year ago at this stage.
Conference from the EU Ireland office. Communicating environmental issues through the web – What can the internet deliver?
“Claiming Our Future” is an event on in the RDS this October. Bringing 1000 people together in one day to discuss the future of Ireland. They’re looking for an intern.
NixonMcinnes are hiring. Brighton jobs.
A new WiFi Kindle is out. Cheap too.
Youtube gives you 15 minutes of fame instead of 10. Should have done this from the start.
Quick video showing main theme from Inception is directly taken from…
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Matt Cutts from Google did a presentation in Paris a while back and during it made some suggestions about what can make good content for a blog, content that might get you some quality traffic:
Here’s his 107min presentation:
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Have a looksee at the Something Wonderful Comic who are looking for new readers.
Aoife makes her own crisps. Oven-Dried Salt ‘N’ Vinegar. Wow. Yum.
You’ve seen the Joe Duffy soundboard, right?
Handy for all businesses. Bord Bia Marketing Reports.
Parnell Summer school. 8 – 13 August this year is entitled: Gotcha! The Role of Media in Politics and Society
Mrs2Be now has a social media directory of Irish Wedding Suppliers.
Stream or download this album from a great band for free. The Cast of Cheers.
Facebook are looking for a Community Manager, Platform Operations (Dublin)
How to make your own In and Out burger.
Fatboy Slim – Everybody Loves A Carnival
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Nice. Robin Blandford got to ask Eric Schmidt what he does on his 20% time in Google. And he said…
Sabrina has a great blog post (on her newly designed site) on building newsletters.
Want some financial advice from a Cork based expert? Read Allan’s blog.
Sweet. So far 50 companies have signed up to get Facebook Stickers for their Business Pages. 100 sticker sets still available.
NCI have a career bootcamp coming up in August. Sign up!
Forget the coat-hanger or bump solution. Nice business tips from the recent public talk by Steve McApple from Jobsland.
Into politics and new media? PDF Europe is on in Barcelona.
See, cursing is good. This is my excuse for using the S word, the R word and w Cunt. I mean C word.
Jónsi – Go Do (Jónsi & Nico Muhly @ Bethnal Green Live Sessions)
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A very short Fluffy Links today.
Stephen compares insurance quotes in Ireland.
Well done Stan Carey, getting a nice mention on the Economist website.
Holger has a list of his top ten Hammer Horror movies.
Love this photo from Phil on the most popular beers during the parades.
Steve Albini doesn’t hold back about the music industry.
New site on all things popculture – Inside The Margin
New to me. Prickly Goo is written and edited by Ruairí. So there you go.
The Terminator is in the screen cinema on the 26th. Nice.
I like the idea of easy to build Google Android apps. Blogging and even Twitter allows unskilled people to show talent. Heck, lots of people started off as web developers thanks to Dreamweaver or even Geocities.
Another BTW is on July 29th.
Feile Icarus is a premium event running in Galway for entrepreneurs and creatives at the end of August.
The Seed
The Seed from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.
A two-minute animated voyage through nature’s life cycle, following the trials and tribulations of a humble apple seed.