Scoopt has been around for a good while at this stage (in blogging terms) but they’ve now increased their reach by also offering to syndicate your content and giving you cold hard cash if your content is used somewhere else. They used to just be a clearing house of a sort for photographs but have at last moved into words too. It would be good to see sites get rewarded for their quality content and not because they have cleverly played with word combos to bring traffic that will click on their ads. I will never have Google Ads on this website but I wouldn’t have a problem with my words making me money by being reprinted somewhere else.
Scoopt – More ways of gaining audience and making money
June 9th, 2006Powers of ten, again
June 9th, 2006I mentioned the Powers of Ten video before on this blog. There’s a graphical version and now John Handelaar has found the original video on YouTube:
And also the Simpson’s take on it.
Dáil visualiser – Lazyweb suggestion
June 9th, 2006Anyone care to create some java visualiser thingymabob (technical term) that does a kind of time shift movie showing the composition of the Dáil after every election we’ve had? It would be interesting to see the increase and decrease of parties and maybe graph these against certain world and local events.
All those laptops and not one logo
June 9th, 2006I noticed yesterday that with a captive audience of about 120 or so people, not one of the presenters who were all bedecked with laptops actually had anything on their laptops with their company logo. The same went for the audience, so many with laptops and sfa of them with logos. Those name badges are hard to see you know, yet the big spaces on a laptop are not. If I had a laptop and was at a conference I’d make sure my logo was prominent and no better place than a laptop. Companies like Aspoke could make a nice skin to put on your laptop. It’ll be another few years before you can get laptops with chameleon skins.
IT@Cork conference and pre-conf dinner
June 9th, 2006Well the conference was fun. Bernie has a few photos as does Donncha. It was a good conference if a little sweltering. The Radisson needs AC. Tom and Catherine and all the IT@Cork people put on a good conference I must say. Very well attended.
Photos of the pre-conf bloggers dinner were taken by Donncha Joe and Tom. There were a good deal more people at the dinner than I thought we’d have, which was great. Good conversations were had.
Thanks to those who turned up including Richard Ennos from Dragnet, Pat Phelan from Cubic Telecom who both should start blogs, Conor O’Neill from Argolon was there and also Walter Higgins from PXN8. Donncha O’Caoimh from WordPress was there, Joe Drumgoole and Breffni Murdoch from Nitrosell.
Also there were Britt Blaser and his wife Tamara, Shel Israel and Paula, Salim Ismail(one of the smartest people I’ve met, ever) Gavin Sheridan Rob Burke (Microsoft need to make the Rob Burkes of the Borg more visible, he was very impressive at the conference yesterday.)
The list goes on! We also had Branedy and his wife. John Handelaar and Sabrina, Fergus Burns and of course Tom.
Lastly, thanks to Pat Phelan who covered the corkage fees for the Stormhoek wine, thanks to Hugh Macleod for sending it over and big thanks to Secantus who paid the bill for the meals of the conference speakers and a few more of those who stayed late. It pays to loiter around after a meal!
If I’ve left anyone out, then let me know.
At least one political party is taking the net seriously
June 9th, 2006It seems one of the political parties in Ireland is going to be using the expertise of an American consultant who has worked on some very successful election campaigns in the US. He worked on the Internet strategy for a few of the larger campaigns in the US. There’ll be more about this in the Sunday papers. Maybe the rest will start getting a clue too?
Nice job if you can get it
June 8th, 2006Joël Céré points to Cheyenne Morrison’s blog. His company sells private islands to people. Beautiful tropical islands. What a job to have!
He’s like a flying squirrel
June 7th, 2006Fluff the links 07 06 2006
June 7th, 2006Download all the portraits David Lachapelle has done.
Another US Court rules websites are not liable for users’ comments.
Top 10 questions investors/angels/VCs ask. According to Wufoo.
How to run up a wall and flip. Wear lots of padding.
Fiat v Ferrari v Ferrari F1 Via MeFi.
The ultimate shredder. BMWs can’t even stop it.
Frilly not fluffy links 06 06 06
June 6th, 2006Read these to the tune of O Fortuna.
Via Metafilter is the Perfect Strangers medley.
150 everyday expressions that Shakespeare gave us.
James Galvin reviews “The Proposition”. A great review I have to say. Makes me want to get the DVD and buy Nick Cave’s book: And the Ass Saw the Angel which James describes so:
a book which makes The Wasp Factory resemble a Ladybird Classic