The great blogger ligger list

October 14th, 2009

Oct 2010: This list will no longer be shared with any PR or Marketing companies due to abuse of the list.

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Every week there appears to be events where bloggers are invited to come along, be they briefings, parties, product launches etc. All fair enough but it now appears to be the same old faces again and again at these. At this stage I’d rather see others and not me invited to events or sent beer, chocolates and magic beans by post. So I’m putting a list together that I’ll share with PR/Marketing people so that a wider and more diverse group of people might get invited along to events. If you want to get invites or get sent products to review or try out then fill out this form. For this list to be shared with companies they’ll agree to not add you to mailing lists of any sort.

Fluffy Links – Wednesday October 14th 2009

October 14th, 2009

Caption competition for this Web Awards pic. This is hilarious.

Diamond in your mind and now on a blog.

No, I did not link to this list cos I’m on it. Marketing blogs in Ireland.

Fantastic idea. A blog dedicated to stupid YouTube Comments.

Get a load of Donal’s legs and win some.

Wel done First Direct. Aggregating good and bad things said about them online.

Via Neville’s Twitter Tool to allow you to turn a Powerpoint slide into an aggregator of questions from the Twitter audience.

Radiohead “All I Need”
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Fluffy Links – Tuesday October 13th 2009

October 13th, 2009

Are the Web Awards over yet? Ah yes. Some thanks.

Nice list of expenses of John Gormley. By nice I mean nice for some.

Conor gives his thoughts on a CIO for Ireland. The person will have to be corrupt from day 1 to get such a job. When a Govt makes it policy to not mention broadband in speeches you can bet the CIO will have to be superpositive about the piece of string people have to use in order to check email. Having a good CIO in a poisonous Government and connected to the sinister Civil Servants who are complicit in all of this will mean nothing good happens.

New blog from Hugh Linehan of the Irish Times.

Touchscreen rubik’s cube.

Johnny points out a social network in Ireland for keeping fit.

Lovely review of Donal’s cookbook.

Will McInnes is back in Ireland soon for the Content is King conference. I’ll be in Qatar though 🙁

Innovation in the sports industry.

New RTE TV show?
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The Who
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Respect the

October 12th, 2009

Thanks to Darren Byrne

Loving the Web Awards 09

Barnardos Short Film to air on TV tomorrow

October 12th, 2009

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Haunting music by James McMorrow. The song deserves to be number 1.

The short film is based on the real stories of those Barnardos work with. Names changed and actors used obviously. Read the stories on Barnardos.ie

More on the Web Awards 09 later but

October 11th, 2009

Thanks for the pressies:
Irish Web Awards 09

Manila Rhythm at Bahay Kubo in D4

October 10th, 2009

Manila Rhythm – I’ll be there
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Manila Rhythm – Bohemian Rhapsody
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Fluffy Links – Friday October 9th 2009

October 9th, 2009

‘Encounters at the End of the World’, taken from the title of the Werner Herzog Documentary is the blog of an Irish documentary filmmaker based in Kabul.

Want to go on a Mushroom Hunt on Saturday? Spaces available for readers of this site. First come, first come. Contact: bill < at > mushroomstuff.com. Worth 80 quid.

This is from the people that organise an amazing foodie weekend in Asturias. Nyom nyom. Pics.

Dena’s got a new bag. Er blog.

Via Annette is a company that helps people take all that knowledge about their industry and make something productive business-wise out of it.

Cheap flights to LA. Woo.

You’re fired. Special site for the Irish Apprentice. Fire your friends.

Pics of the Deathmob flashmob.

Refresh Dublin.


Creativity in constraints.

Science Raps Challenge 2009
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Science Raps Challenge is a new competition organised by the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre at Univeristy College Cork and Teagasc Moorepark for Science Week Ireland 2009. All competition details can be found on http://microbemagic.ucc.ie

Growing your online business

October 8th, 2009

The Internet Growth Alliance which I have the smallest of small parts in has come out and launched their Internet Growth Acceleration Programme which is all about teaching companies how to scale and expand and providing them with advice from people who’ve been there and done that. It’s modeled and inspired by the Stanford Leadership for Growth programme.

IGAP is exactly what so many web companies in Ireland need in order to move from being a minnow to fish to big fish and the mentors on the programme are real deal Irish and International people who have walked the walk. The Internet Growth Alliance is comprised of some of the best and brightest web people in Ireland, many of them selfmade multi-millionaires who have a wealth of information to share.

I’ve seen some negativity with some Irish companies complaining that they have to pay to be part of this, ignoring the fact that Enterprise Ireland takes the biggest hit on this and the people involved are doing this because they want to help. Thank goodness not every Irish web startup runs their life with this kind of entitlement syndrome going on.

Apply here.

Falling in Love with the Web Again – 09 Style

October 8th, 2009

The 09 Realex Payments Irish Web Awards are on Saturday. Tantrums, tiaras and more. Oh no, that’s the Blog Awards. 20+ categories. 350+ people. Cupcakes. Great food. No tuxes. Thank yous. Mulley’s laptop bluescreening and Rick O’Shea having to improvise. Playful moods. Childish tones. Wear legwarmers. Kicking out very very late. Bloggers, Twitterers er ers, sponsors having a laugh with the nominees. People in full Irish soccer kit. A large chunk of the Irish Web dev community. Himself might call in too.

Tickets €35 each.

Cupcakes