So the 2009 Blog Awards are now booked for February 21st 2009 in the Cork Airport International Hotel. There’s a special room rate of €100 per room or €55 per person sharing if you mention the Blog Awards. Just so you know.
Quick: Irish Blog Awards 2009 special rate
July 28th, 2008Simple Pleasures: Toasted banana sandwich
July 28th, 2008That’s my simple pleasure. Despite being a total food snob and liking all sorts of “foreign” cuisine there are times when I just want something simple. Really simple. Normal bread (as in Pat the Baker), a banana, butter and that’s it. Of course I ate the bloody thing before I took a photo so here’s a stock photo:
What food is your simple pleasure?
Oh and by the way, Irish Food Blog Aggregator Gastronom.ie has been updated and now aggregates about 40 Irish Food Blogs.
New Website: mybeautifulboutique.com
July 28th, 2008
Got an email ages back now about mybeautifulboutique.com, an Irish site dedicated to listings and promotions of Boutiques. It’s a boutique directory which gives users an online boutique emporium to browse through. so boutiques get an online presence and listing. Not bad for what can be very traditional businesses.
And how do they make their money?
They give all boutiques a basic listing for free, and then the option to upgrade to a premium listing €330 per year which provides them with /theirname on the site, stats on visits, they are highlighted in searches on their site and an easy content management system about other things.
They’ll also have a newsletter going out where advertising will be taken. This will probably be where most of their revenue will come from in my view. There’s millions left in email marketing in Ireland if only it were done well. Oh that’s right it is. Use Toddle folks!
I wonder is there a guy in Ireland called Paul that has a boutique?
Gav’s Guide to installing WordPress
July 28th, 2008Deserves a post all by itself. Nice guide from Gavan on installing WordPress on your own site. Only slightly technical abilities are needed.
Fluffy Links – Monday July 28th 2008
July 28th, 2008Want to go to a Food Styling demonstration?
There’s an Irish Webmaster meetup on August 9th in Dublin.
TJ finds the best named legal firm in Ireland.
Chris has very good reasons to unsub from BoingBoing.
So if you do set up a Twitter account for your business, maybe don’t use your mobile as the mobile arm of it.
So what did that Joss Wheedon “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” project make, numbers wise? Wheedon nodded in the comments that they were about right. Love this idea though:
For example, musical theater aficionados will note that a few of the Dr. Horrible numbers feature two distinct countermelodies. It’s difficult to parse a melody and a countermelody lyric in real time, much less two distinct countermelodies being sung along with a melody part. To get it all (and rabid Whedon fans will want to), you’d have to listen to it at least three times. So Dr. Horrible seems specifically engineered to be watched again and again
Maybe that’s the future of movies? Design movie so it can be watched a few times and deliver new content each time.
These are the Facebook applications that Facebook think are the future? Interesting that some are productivity tools on a site that many businesses think waste time.
What a great idea. A place to highlight PR fuckups. You can send on your own via Twitter.
Olympics 2008 Monkey Movie – BBC Sport
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The Music – Strength in Numbers sounds like dEUS – The Architect
July 27th, 2008Baseline mostly.
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O2 experience store Patrick Street Cork – Bunch of cretins
July 26th, 2008Did you know if you are one of those noisy ignorant Spanish students that spend their time loitering in Irish towns and cities each summer and doing things such as splitting a coke between 8 of you in McDonalds that you are entitled to skip the queue in an O2 store and to hell with those people wanting to buy more than a fucking charger that are in the queue? Well that’s apparently the policy in the O2 experience store in Patrick’s Street in Cork.
Despite me raising a complaint about the queue jumpers the girl serving them didn’t seem to care, nor did her colleague who looked at her and me and pretended not to notice.
Fuck your mobile broadband product I was signing up for and fuck your 16gb iPhone I decided to to get while I was in the queue.
This what Flickr brings back for the phrase fuck you. G’wan George:
Photo owned by Tony the Misfit (cc)
RTE special – The Global Classroom
July 26th, 2008RTE have a special series on next week called the Global Classroom.
We go to India, Rwanda and Kenya where three programmes, including the Irish charity Camara, are using three very different approaches to achieve the same goal: educating the world’s youngest citizens.
And it’s all webified too:
Next week, RTÉ.ie News Editor Joe Zefran and journalist Blathnaid Healy (left) will bring you a special website with full-length features, photo gallery, and audio/video highlights including web-exclusive interviews.
What I think is the big thing with this is that the RTE.ie team not RTE (yeah there’s a diff) will be showing their wares on the Six One News and News on Two. Nice one.
Enda makes his own 3g iPhone ad
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Green Jelly – Three Little Pigs
July 25th, 2008Remember this?
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