Archive for July, 2006
The potential killer of The Evening Herald
Monday, July 31st, 2006The Guardian reports on an interesting development in the freesheet market in London as News International/NewsCorp prepares to launch ‘the London Paper’, a free daily paper with a slight edge; it’s an afternoon/evening publication.
NewsCorp has been slow on the scene in the Freesheet market with Associated Newspapers taking the majority of the market so far; […]
Myhome.ie purchase won’t damage The Irish Times
Monday, July 31st, 2006Mediangler reckons that the purchase of Myhome.ie by The Irish Times Ltd. ‘compromises editorial independence and judgement’ of the publication and ‘it will be difficult for readers to read the Irish Times and not wonder where the company’s self-interest is influencing coverage.’ Such a doomsday prophecy for Irelands “paper of record” does however ignore numerous […]
DRI may initiate legal action against the state
Sunday, July 30th, 2006A bit behind on this; Mulley’s got it covered too.
Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) have contacted various state bodies to demand an immediate halt to the “collection, storing and accessing of personal private data on every citizen using a mobile or fixed line phone” which it says is “a breach of the Irish citizens’ statutory, constitutional […]
Irish national blogging day
Friday, July 28th, 2006Ken has reiterated his previous suggestion for a National Blog Day in Ireland in which all bloggers would take a moment to tell the world what their blog has done for/to them in the previous 12 months.
It would be a nice idea (bar the fact that I did the same last week!) but I think […]
Irish Times Ltd. takes Myhome.ie
Friday, July 28th, 2006It’s in The Irish Times (subs req), on RTÉ.ie and breakingnews.ie has it covered too; The Irish Times Ltd. is to pay a whopping €50 million for Irish property website Myhome.ie (€40 million up front and €10 million over a 5-year period).
The Sunday Business Post told us that The Guardian, Irish Times, Rightmove and possibily […]
Free Phone (from Free Roaming)
Thursday, July 27th, 2006You can’t beat these various spot prizes that show up across the Irish blogging community from time to time; Free Roaming are offering an unlocked Nokia N80 to the best comment/piece of advice a commentator can give on their new site.
Get your suggestions in before the 15th of September (seems like a long time!) to […]
BBC to start ‘Vodcasting’
Thursday, July 27th, 2006MediaGuardian covers the BBC’s decision to start Vodcasting (aka V-logging, Vidi-logging, Vidcasting etc.). The broadcaster will begin its new service with a weekly round up of Question Time, News at Ten and Newsnight; the service will expand over time to include daily round-up’s and Question Time highlights.
I’m looking forward to seeing some of their programming; […]
E-mail subscription added
Thursday, July 27th, 2006At the request of Terry Maguire (no relation, at least not that I know of!) I’ve added an e-mail subscription option; those who do subscribe should recieve a daily update from my blog thanks to FeedBlitz.
E-mail subscription is not something I had given much thought to before; in a world of RSS the idea seems […]
Mulley.net is burnt out
Thursday, July 27th, 2006It was too good to last; Stall The Ball points out that mulley.net has gone AWOL and the site now tells us “This account has been suspended. Either the domain has been overused, or the reseller ran out of resources.”
After three days in a row of tens of thousands of hits (on a site […]
What their “lawful excuse” could mean
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006Irish Eagle is trying to figure out exactly what a lawful excuse is in the context of yesterday’s court decision on the Shannon Airport protesters; a worthwhile question to put forward.
If my understanding is correct the court found that the accused committed unlawful damage to the aircraft but did so in order to uphold another, […]
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