Blogger Beers 17th May, Be There

Anyone interested in Blogger Beers on 17th from 8pm? We’ll start in the Market Bar, and move if/when the mood takes us. Maybe, you’ll feel like a few social ones before/after the Photomeet?

If you want to come along, please drop a comment. It makes it easier for us to keep an eye out for ya!

Posted on May 9, 2008 • 9 Comments • Filed in Blogging

Red Links 08/05/08

Fancy a job making ice-cream this Summer?

Meet Bill Adama’s Da.

Half of Dublin’s business wifi networks are insecure?!!

And on wifi, a nice map of free wifi in London.

I love printmaking, especially working with lino and woodcuts. Here’s a nice two-day workshop in Japanese Woodcut Printmaking at the National Print Museum. Appended to my list of to-dos.

Liking the way letters from misc Indian signs are cropped a la ransom note and are used for the Nokia 6110 Navigator ads.

Mom’s are great, aren’t they? The Twenty Most Awesome Moms of the Internet.

Where’s my tinfoil hat? Mobile phone mind control.

Ohbijou ‘The Woods’

80’s synth is so back - Ladyhawke ‘Back of the Van’

Posted on May 9, 2008 • 1 Comment • Filed in Red Links

Cool Drench Ad..

I love adverts. This is one of the coolest ones I’ve seen all year long for. It’s for Drench water. Via Rob at The Ad Pit.

Posted on May 8, 2008 • Add Comment • Filed in Culture

Pepi Ginsberg’s ‘The Waterline’

Posted on May 8, 2008 • Add Comment • Filed in Culture

DPC Has Problems Protecting Its Own Data

Blogging will be back to normal tomorrow evening. On a bit of a break from it.

In the meantime, drop by Damien’s and see how the Data Protection Commissioner’s office can’t protect its landmark yearly report on its website. Pre-publicating a document on a site before release is dicey… You never know who is snooping around.

Posted on May 7, 2008 • Add Comment • Filed in Blogging, Geekery, Irish

Twitter is Turning Japanese

You gotta love the way Twitter melts at the most inopportune of moments. It’s like your senile uncle that gets lost in the ladies lav and wants to do knickers inspections at your wedding. Here’s Twitter turning Japanese.. No, not like that.

Posted on May 7, 2008 • Add Comment • Filed in Geekery

TwitterFone Sounds Like Success

How cool is Twitterfone? So very, very cool. Imagine you are out and about. Perhaps you are driving and you want to send a quick Twitter message to say you are running late or to remind someone of a dinner date? You can’t use your fingers to compose that tweet. What to do, what to do? You Twitterfone using the handsfree. Leave a sub-15 seconds message for the price of a national call (in this case!) and almost automagically it’s translated into text and rebroadcast on Twitter using your Twitter credentials. A fonetweet is posted. Easy, peasy and super cool to use.

Twitterfone launched today in the US, UK and Ireland.It’s in strict alpha mode, so it’s super hard to get an invite at the moment. Twitterfone supremo, Pat Phelan of Cubic Telecom says that Twitterfone will add support for a country a week to its service.

Twitterfone is a combination of the technology at work behind the scenes - VOX routes the calls, ZONG manages the mobile transaction, MAXroam takes care of the telephony magic under the hood and Dial2Do does the voice-to-text translation. All working together in a really cool, compelling package.

The Twitterfone team is comprised of Pat Phelan, Sean O Sullivan, Ivan MacDonald, David Marcus and Florian Seroussi. And the Twitterfone site is another stone-cold Sabrina classic. Very cool. Best of luck, Twitterfone.

Edit: A minor correction!

Posted on May 7, 2008 • Add Comment • Filed in Geekery

Red Links 06/05/08

So, Flickr extends it’s programme to give Pro accounts away to charities. Forgive me for being a cynic, how are charities really going to benefit from unlimited Flickr space? I’m fairly cynical about charities at the best of times, but the idea seems a bit hollow.

Go - download the new Nine Inch Nails album, The Slip for free. It’s old school NIN, not in the vein of Ghosts. A nice addition to their catalogue. Available in different encoding flavours too. Loving Echoplex

Raising money from your users instead of a VC? Ravelry is doing it. $71k isn’t bad either.

Hairy Ben is such a diplomat, when it comes to affairs of the heart.

The Catholic Church wants to can Ramsay’s show because it uses bad language. Yes, of course, censorship works. And stopping one show from using bad language is going to stop people from cursing. Get real.

He’d do anything for cash. Meat Loaf, Tiffany and some kid do AT&T. Tis nasty painful. Via Jeff

Posted on May 6, 2008 • 4 Comments • Filed in Red Links

Some Interesting Twitter Tidbits: Analysts & Rules

Via Michael Gartenburg, I find a link to Jonny Brentwood’s Technobabble Top 50 Analysts on Twitter post. How many do you follow? I’m a big fan of Michael. Who’s your favourite on the list?

Oh, and I must mention Valleywag’s Twitter rules. I’ve broken most of them. You’ve broken them too.

Posted on May 5, 2008 • 1 Comment • Filed in Geekery