Damien Mulley

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When big stars come to the Carrigaline shopping centre, there is no surprise that chaos should ensue.

Lawrence Lessig Rocks. Here’s a typical Lessig presentation. 457 slides in 30mins .

The Blog Awards Browser.

Prankster puts up No Parking signs in a neighbourhood. Cars get ticketed and towed. Owners not so happy.

Slashdot: EU considering forcing iTunes to take returns. If you can do it with Amazon…

That NDP money for IT in Schools? Seaghan Moriarty unspins it and displays the real facts.

Shel Israel. Five more corporate blogging tips.

Barrow, Alaska.

Want to sponsor Best Blog at the Blog Awards? There’s an auction for it.

With the blog award voting up and running, wouldn’t it be fun to see Presdential Campaign style videos released where people solicit votes. Can you imagine attack ads? “Voting for In, Fact Ah is voting for communism.” 🙂

Balcony TV got shafted by YouTube. Never trust a free hosting service. Always have backups ready to go back online. Lesson learned?

Bruce Schneier gave a talk at the ACLU New Jersey Membership Conference: “Counterterrorism in America: Security Theater Against Movie-Plot Threats. It is now on Google video:

Suzy mentioned RockTheVote.ie yesterday. It is mentioned in the Tribune today:

Cosgrave told the Sunday Tribune that the campaign will involve “everything you could ever imagine, ” but repeatedly stressed that he has “no interest in party politics.” He and his colleagues hope to raise around Euro1m and will also involve high-profile people from Ireland’s sport and music communities to spread their message after it launches on 2 April.

Currently, Rock The Vote has “one main guy” as a financial backer and several other smaller funders.

Cosgrave has calculated that it will take Euro7 to mobilise each voter. The project aims to increase voter turnout by 100,000 people.

100,000 people? In a month? As Suzy points out:

However Rockthevote.ie with lots of money and no sense it seems are launching in April 07 – that’s one month before the general election folks.

I’ll remain a little sceptical on that so.

Just watched Syriana for the first time. I actually liked it. But maybe it was because it was the first time in a while that I watched anything. 🙂

and a quote from it:

Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. That’s Milton Friedman. He got a goddamn Nobel Prize. We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win.

Vote here. I wish we could have gotten this out the door last week so there’d be more time for voting. It’ll be very interesting to see how many votes there’ll be. Best of luck to everyone. We’ll be releasing lists of all the nominees in a while. Once sleep is had.

The voting for the blog awards will hopefully go live later tonight or in the morning. Until then here are the videos nominated for the Best Videocast Award. (Sponsored by Cork Internet Exchange)

Aine Chambers Dooney Rock, Sligo

Allyn Quigley – DWIC – X-mas No#1

Allyn Quigley – Size Matters

Brody Sweeney on why he decided on politics

Disappear by JL Pagano

Minister to Nowhere – Simon McGarr

PD Election Video

Technolotics #44 – Flying Naked

Technolotics #29 – ZZ Fops

Uisce In New Hampshire

You pay taxes so we don’t have to

Edit: Suspicion confirmed.

IrelandOffline got a few calls/emails in the past while from individuals asking why Magnet are not taking their orders. It isn’t like they are overcapacity in the exchanges they are in. Now after the articles in SiliconRepublic and ENN yesterday, a careful reading might suggest they are just going to sell to business customers.

This bit is interesting:

He said that the company is committed to offering services to businesses and consumers exclusively on a local loop unbundling (LLU) basis and would not be content with reselling broadband for the incumbent, which he likened to selling customers “stale old chips in a new bag�.

Netsource is part of Magnet now and that’s exactly what they do.

Then there’s this:

“We will do this through focusing on our original fibre-to-the-home strategy but also on quality business broadband products. We are going to take all our resources and focus them on those two areas,� Kennedy said.

So fibre to the home in Magnet controlled housing states and apartment complexes and business broadband via LLU? I really am not seeing anything that actually mentions their plans for the consumers using their non-fibre assets.

Having a Bebo profile is fine but do the politicians have to spam you on it?

Conor O’Neill has these “notions”. 🙂

Passion for the work, not the company.

How to be cheap.

Via PlasticBag.org is IMfied. Tried it and seems interesting enough. Add them to GMail chat or MSN or AIM and you can use the service to set up reminders and create ToDo lists.

Skype accesses your BIOS details? Whyyyy?

A snake massage? Arghh.

Text is linear. This has been all over the shop (web) the past few days. Finally got round to seeing it. Great video but I think it would have had less of an impact if the music wasn’t there. Very positive music pushing you to the ending.