My friend Charlie is running an event called Wavehunt and is currently looking for sponsors. Anyone want to sponsor this “exercise a nerd” event? 🙂
Blurb:
WaveHunt is a high-tech manhunt using a moving wireless computer network on the streets of Dublin, Ireland.
Inspired by the DefCon Running Man competition, WaveHunt is a fun event for Ireland’s technical community that will test your network and direction finding skills, and possibly even win you some prizes!
Thanks for the book whoever sent it to me. Interesting choice.
The sad fact is that I’ll probably enjoy reading this book on regulation. As an aside, anyone else think the cover is slightly Goatse-esque?
The Richard and Fiona show. A love song.
I knew I’d infect someone else with the blogging/song mashups.
Nice one Steven.
UPDATE: Booked a place. Thanks for your help!
Just checked Buswells. They have one room left at €240 a night. Eh no. Anyone recommend a cheaper hotel? I didn’t realise that was the Ireland v Scotland match weekend. Lordy.
TechCrunch talks about the new Rojo idea known as Feedshare. Basically you stick some code on your page and it advertises a blog and an ad. In turn your blog will be advertised on someoneelse’s blog. So for every block of ads you show (2 in a block) your ad will be displayed on another website. Rojo makes money from the second ad. I like the fact that the ad also has a direct link to your feed so you can subscribe to it.
It’s a good idea but I wonder will it get eclipsed by a service that just allows you to display one ad and you get an ad in return (we are back in the bubble with companies giving you something for free) or one ad and a share in the second ad?
This could be done for the Irish Bloggersphere. Simple javascript you stick on your sidebar that randomly chooses a blog from a list on IrishBlogs or Planet of the Blogs. If you wanted to be ultra-generous you could specify in the code to weight towards new blogs where new is defined as being less than 2 months old.
The person that builds this blog network would have access to a lot of Irish blogs then and would have the opportunity to then offer revenue share on ads in the future. So have the reciprocal ads to start with and then when people trust you enough you could give them the opportunity to display a second ad which they’d revenue share in.
Another lazyweb idea from Damien. Someone steal this idea.
See subjectline. March 11th. Unknown location as of yet.
Sooo, the blog awards are almost here and voting ends in 24 hours time. I’ll lock the voting system then and sort out the shortlists. Some are going to be very very close. I’d like to go through the costs behind the event now and at the end of this post I’m asking for suggestions on some things.
I am not getting anything extra from any of the sponsors. I will apparently have one PR company buy me lunch though. I’m a fan of the Mermaid Café by the way. 🙂 I’m paying for two nights in the Hotel myself and the train/plane. I must also get some trophies made this weekend, which for now will come out of my pocket. I have no issues paying these costs myself.
What I want to ask though is that I got a good few enquiries from companies and PR people wanting to sponsor the overall event this year. As in they wanted “Irish Blog Awards – Sponsored by Widget Limited” but I turned them down as I thought it unfair to the category sponsors and that they’d be overshadowed. Plus almost all costs were covered. So, next year do you think it would be ok to have an overall sponsor as well as category sponsors?
And now for the most important question: Should I personally profit from this next year? I’m sure I can ask much more for category sponsorship and overall sponsorship and with that comes a bigger venue, maybe better prizes and I want to pay the MC next year (and I’d hope it’d be Rick) but even then I’m thinking there would be money left over. Should I expense my hotel stay and trip and put any spare cash into my wallet? Or what should I do?
I am already profiting from it in a way as my traffic to my site has jumped and I seem to be getting to know PR people a bit more and may work with them on other blog related events. So I will be clear in that I am making something already from it. Anyway, I want the community to decide on this as this is your event and without you I wouldn’t be doing this and having so much fun. And to note, whatever you suggest I will honour it because I really don’t give that much of a damn about money. So, over to you…
New crematorium to be built and completed by end of this year. Built on the old Irish Steel website.
20 Ideas for a Great Podcast. Some good suggestions there and some common sense ones that I would have overlooked.
Bohemian Rhapsody, Lost style. Weird Al doing his thin. Funny enough but not as fantastic as it could have been.
Cool performance Art pictures.
The movies of Mitchell Rose. Check out the ballet between a guy and a big digger. Quite a fun short film.
Via Michele is the Mike Davidson guide to getting an expired domain name. Very helpful. I’m still trying to get mulley.com and damien.com