Via the Blakester.
Yeah I dunno why I called him that either…
I’m reminded of Dougal questioning his faith.
St Patrick wasn’t a Saint – Next we’ll hear God is make believe
March 16th, 2007More Irish Election candidates on YouTube / Boards.ie gets an Election Forum
March 16th, 2007The Western people reported on two Mayo Dáil candidates doing YouTube campaign videos. Fianna Fail’s Frank Chambers and Fine Gael’s John O’Mahony both have videos on YouTube but they’re quite different. Chambers’ video takes place in his kitchen whereas O’Mahony’s is a medley of photos and screens listing his promises and contains music from the Saw Doctors and some other Irish band.
This is Frank’s – “Be Frank, Vote Chambers”.
Not a bad video apart from the looking down too often.
Frank then has local people giving their video support but the trouble is it looks staged. Maybe it’s just nerves but it does feel like the guy is reading from a script.
All Frank’s videos can be accessed here.
This is John’s – Vote John O’Mahony
Slicker, more like the usual political TV spots. No video of the man himself talking to the people. I’d prefer the human touch of Frank’s.
Here’s an interesting fact. Frank’s video was uploaded around the same time as the Labour Party’s “But, are you happy?” video and the Labour video has been viewed 639 times. Frank’s has been viewed 891 times. O’Mahony’s was uploaded two weeks ago and has been viewed 486 times.
Meanwhile Boards.ie now has an 2007 Election forum.
Finally press released about the ShareIT day in Cork
March 15th, 2007BusinessAdvisory.ie press release about ShareIT finally out the gap. Let me know if you want to go along to it and please pass it along to people who you might think would be interested in going too. So far takeup has been fairly slack but I’ve not had time to promote it well, what with other things but I’m sure people will be sick of mention of it by next weekend.
More New Twits on the Block – March 15th
March 15th, 2007Fluffy Links – March 15th 2007
March 15th, 2007The Kazak version of Baywatch.
Well done Salim Ismail. It almost feels like he’s a Corkonian with his frequent visits here and his work for Bupa a few years back.
The Colin1 discovers the Brit TV series Ultra-violet. Was a great bloody show I must say.
Ralph points out there’s now a Yahoo! Group for ex-Moto Cork employees.
Kottke says blokes spend a lot of time looking at the crotches of other blokes and even animals. Very weird.
Via my father:
Then don’t fucking subscribe
March 15th, 2007Michele doesn’t like Twitter it seems:
It’s probably the biggest waste of time I’ve come across in years.
Does anyone really give a damn what other people are doing all the time.
Michele says:
While we may all do interesting things a lot of what we do is incredibly boring. This is why I own a DVD player, a TV, books etc.,
(Keep in mind Michele blogs about special-edition soundtracks that he buys from Amazon.)
Someone telling the world that they are sitting on a bus isn’t going to improve my life. If I wanted to know where someone was I could ring them, email them, IM them .. you get the idea..
If I want to know what you are planning to do I can check your calendar / diary (if you have a public one)
The best bit:
If it was “hip� to jump of cliffs would you all do it?
I do believe that at one stage or another, all of these arguments were used to knock blogging too. Simple way of not getting worked up about Twitter is don’t fucking subscribe, then you won’t have to read about what people are doing on the bus, what people are eating now or what boring fucking soundtrack they just bought. The same goes for blogging. Don’t subscribe if you don’t want to read about whatever. It isn’t forced on you. Don’t want to read about what people are doing with blogs, don’t read. If you don’t like that people are blogging about Twitter, then unsubscribe. RSS empowers you, you control what you read and who you read. Nothing is forced on you.
There was a lot of hype and relentless chatter when GMail started a few years ago and that was just bloody email with a little bit of AJAX and a lot of space. Twitter is no different in the revolution game and is not something special. People seem to think that just because the volume of people talking about Twitter is great, that it automatically means they think it’ll change the world. Quite a silly assumption to make.
Twitter is Gomi, it is shite, it’s called Twitter for a good reason. So what if it is a fad, nobody is saying it’s the next big thing, nobody is making you use it. The usual tech snobbery is again happening here. “Oh gawd, you use a PC”, “Oh gawd, you use Windows and not ubuntu”, “Oh gawd my shit don’t stink, yours does”
As a social experiment, I find Twitter interesting but what I like more is that people are getting creative and having fun and coming up with useful and useless things to do with it. What you can do is quite restrictive yet many people are working with these scarce resources and having a laugh. I’ve seen more focus and creativity from the Irish tech bloggers over this than most stuff in the past few years. Twitter is tech play-doh but I guess some would rather us keep quiet about us making messes.
Twitter patter of little Tweet – New Twits on the block – March 14th
March 14th, 2007Conor Power of Blog Awards Second Life video operator and getting mistaken for a journalist fame.
Tom Murphy. This Tom Murphy. His Twitter profile was new to me!
I see Bernie is getting lots of his students to play around using Twitter. Too.
Here’s the Educast Twitter.
Bill Burke‘s Twitter.
Fluffy Links – March 14th 2007
March 14th, 2007Well done Conn. He’s finishing up with the day job to work full-time on his passion.
Daniel K. Sullivan gets name-checked by Harry McGee. Nice one Dan. Really really liking Harry’s stuff since he started a while back. It’s quite an education.
Via Josh Spear, it seems William Gibson’s coolhunting novel “Pattern Recognition” will be made into a film by the director of the Truman Show. Nice.
Via Worldchanging is FarmSubsidy.org a site from the FaxYourMP people allowing you to see who is actually gettting those massive EU farm subsidies.
You can still download “Deleted” YouTube videos. Viacom might sue for even more now.
More later…
A little bit of Twit, a little bit of that – New Twits on the Block – March 13th
March 13th, 2007Gareth Stack. (New to me but been around a while.)
Damien Blake. First Irish politician to waste time Twittering!
And of course I’m here.
This will only become really big when Blogorrah start using it to send gossip. 🙂
Fluffy Links – March 13th
March 13th, 2007Charity Trad gig on March 14th in Cork.
Via Joseph Johnson, Cute Baby Polar Bear:
Herman Dune ‘I Wish That I Could See You Soon’