News Bulletin briefs (24th September 2006)
Scanned brief articles of mine from today’s Sunday Business Post (not available online):
Irish music download site launched (SBP – 17th September 2006)
I’m a week late; this article was published in the Media & Marketing section of the Sunday Business Post last Sunday: With the digital download market providing companies like Apple with huge financial gains in recent years, it’s no surprise to see other companies attempt to mimic their success. However, while most online music start-ups [...]
Ireland has high percentage of millionaires (SBP – 24th September 2006)
An article of mine from Today’s Sunday Business Post: One in 50 Irish households are millionaire households in dollar terms, according to a new report on global wealth. The report – by Boston Consulting Group – found that almost 2 per cent of Irish households were dollar millionaires, putting Ireland in 13th place in terms [...]
Busy month ahead
I’ve been very distracted over the last week or two for numerous reasons and as a result blogging has taken a back seat; unfortunately there’s more of the same to come in the next few weeks as my spare time is cut dramatically short; (something I’m not un-happy to see happen by any stretch of [...]
Joni Mitchell’s The Fiddle and the Drum
I recently noticed a serious lack of Joni Mitchell music in my collection, despite my love for the one piece of her work I did have, Blue. I’ve set about remedying that and in doing so I realised that a song I first encountered on A Perfect Circle’s eMOTIVe, The Fiddle and the Drum, was [...]
Huh?
Apparently I’ve just won a Nokia N80 phone as a result of my advice to Roam4Free… wow… I really wasn’t expecting that to happen! I’m one of many that threw my 2c in to help with their site design and probably like the others I thought nothing of it since then, that said this couldn’t [...]
Phantom to launch on Halloween
Phantom FM have announced today that they will finally launch their fully-fledged FM service on 105.2FM, starting on the 31st of October. The station will be available to Dublin city and council listeners and will naturally be available online for anyone outside of it’s range. The launch has been coming a long time; Phantom FM [...]
Normal service resumes
Just back from a short but very enjoyable trip to Amsterdam for the IBC; I had hoped to blog from there but the hotel’s wifi was pricey and my laptop died at the event before I got the chance. Anyway; I’ll hopefully be able to get the That Was The Week That Blogged feature out [...]
Over before it began
Don’t bother yourself with the ifs, buts and maybes of today’s Sunday newspapers, RTÉ.ie has just confirmed that Michael McDowell will be the next leader of the Progressive Democrats and there will be no party vote needed to confirm this. Tom Parlon will become party President, something McDowell was apparently aprehensive to offer while Liz [...]
Leadership race should be a matter of how, not who
Politicos from every corner of the country are currently busy holding their collective breath as the PD leadership race sways unpredictably between being a huge personality-based civil war and a complete non-starter; by Monday afternoon the party may have already found itself a replacement for Harney but it may too have found itself at the [...]
