Archive for April, 2006
Blogging your way into the workforce
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006Ever since the Boston Globe suggested that blogging is ‘essential’ in getting the job you want Irish bloggers have been putting the idea to the test. Tom Raftery is putting himself on the market to blog readers to see if his skills can be taken advantage of through blog-publicity alone. Piaras takes a cautious approach […]
Downloads set to be included in Irish charts (SBP - 23/April/06)
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) is aiming to include download sales in its weekly singles chart from this summer.
The news comes just weeks after the British singles chart saw the first-ever number one from download sales alone.
Crazy by Gnarls Barkley has spent three weeks at the top spot there although it was only released […]
10,000 Days leaked
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006For those of you who don’t already know about it 10,000 Days, the upcoming Tool album has leaked two weeks before the official release.
Like all pre-release leaks it has been swiftly followed by a debate on fansites and music forums the internet over. However, a band like Tool offers an interesting new spin on the […]
The discussion of conversations in a modern Ireland
Thursday, April 13th, 2006Bertie Ahern has challenged the people of Ireland to have a national conversation on what it means to be Irish in 2006, the idea being that out of it will come a unified sense of nationhood, an agreement on our past and a direction for our future but such a debate is flawed from the […]
The Rising - Langerland style
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006To celebrate what some see as the most important single moment in Irish history (and what others see as an unrealistic plan that was doomed to failure from day one) Langerland has created a new cartoon.
I might bring this to the attention of Joe Duffy; whip up some hysteria in the hope of reminding people […]
When blogging bites back
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006The Register has picked up on an interesting case of the past coming back to haunt blogger Marc Fleury, owner of company “JBoss” which was recently bought up by Red Hat, making Fleury an executive at the open source giant.
A comment on his blog, dug up from September ‘04, shows Fleury unleash a torrent of […]
IRMA give us a fool proof method to avoid piracy
Monday, April 10th, 2006I’ve recently been browsing around IRMA.ie doing some research and I stumbled across this little gem on the Piracy page:
So there you have it; a strong message to all music fans out there.
Don’t be fooled into believing that you can get legal, low priced music in Ireland, that’s just what the gangsters and terrorists want […]
Digital TV remains on the starting blocks (SBP - 9th April 2005)
Sunday, April 9th, 2006The development of digital television in this country remains clouded in uncertainty.The tender process for the Government Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) trial is due to conclude by the end of April, with the pilot programme on track for an autumn 2006 launch.But broadcasting representatives have said that a mixture of caution amongst the networks and […]
Would RTÉ “News 24″ work?
Saturday, April 8th, 2006In 1999 RTÉ published proposals for a DTT system that they would spearhead (similar to the role the BBC took in the creation of Freeview in the UK). As part of the plans RTÉ would create four new channels; one giving coverage to the Oireachtas, one for children, one for educational programming and a rolling-news […]
exposure of the ‘Fake sheikh’: Right or Wrong?
Thursday, April 6th, 2006Mazher Mahmood (better known as the Fake Sheikh) calls what he does genuine investigative journalism and says that revealing his identity will put his life and the lives of his family in danger due to the convictions his investigations have ensured in the past. A judgement on the issue, all relating to George Galloway’s decision […]
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