Archive for February, 2007
Will BSkyB turn the screw on UPC Ireland too?
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007There’s been an interesting squabble going on amongst the British media giants lately (excellent Q and A here), with Sky Digital and Virgin Media (formerly NTL/Telewest and Virgin Mobile) at loggerheads over a new carriage contract between the two.
Basically, the deal that allows Virgin to carry BSkyB’s basic channels (such as Sky News and Sky […]
I’m LinkedIn, apparently.
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007While I’m always interested in new (to me, anyway) social media sites and tools, I rarely sign up to them as I see little personal benefit in being a “member”. While the likes of Bebo and Myspace are useful to many, and as a result bafflingly successful, they don’t offer me anything I don’t already […]
On the road again…
Friday, February 23rd, 2007Today is my final shift in The Sunday Business Post.
Having started here on one month’s work experience in September, which was extended by three weeks, which was then followed by two weekly freelance shifts until Christmas, which was then followed by two weekly freelance shifts until the last Thursday/Friday in February (which is now upon […]
For my consideration
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007Damien asked me to be one of the judges in 7 of the 21 categories at this year’s Irish Blog Awards, which I was happy to do.
The categories I was asked to be a judge in are as follows:
Best Newcomer
Best Podcaster
Best Podcast
Best Business Blog
Best Personal Blog
Best Blog Post
Best Videocast
Before any of the nominees start sending […]
This Government is pro-competition…
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007Those words, or words to this effect uttered by Mary Harney during the BUPA Ireland withdrawal saga seem pretty hollow with the news that legislation is being rushed through the Oireachtas to end the three year exemption from risk equalisation for new entrants to the health insurance market.
Putting aside the entire “risk equalisation” debate, you […]
RTE.ie News does a copy and paste on Wii article
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007This is my second post bashing RTÉ.ie News in one day, but I think it’s only fair given the following discovery.
While googling for articles to back up my rant on a post over at TCAL.net, I spotted something interesting…
I used the search term “wii sales” and got the following results.
Just in case it has changed, […]
A non-story courtesy of RTE.ie
Monday, February 19th, 2007RTÉ.ie had been leading with this story until a few minutes ago and it is probably one of the least relevant pieces I’ve seen there in a while.
The top line states:
The Minister of Finance, Brian Cowen, has said the Government’s policy on stamp duty was agreed between the coalition partners at the time of the […]
Had a busy week, coming up to a lazier one…
Sunday, February 18th, 2007Today’s Sunday Business Post has the most work (probably) I’ve ever had published in one single edition.
Over the last week I was keeping an eye on the Media & Marketing section, a topic I really enjoy writing about, and it also happened to be the week a feature written by myself and another journalist (Ken […]
IBA shortlist announced
Sunday, February 18th, 2007Congratulations to all of you who made the cut this year - and the best of luck as 3rd March approaches.
Unfortunately, this blog didn’t make it past the longlist stage, but that was enough for me given that this blog was very hit and miss over the past year.
All that’s left for us Joe Public […]
A suggestion for the Irish Blog Awards
Thursday, February 15th, 2007With the IBA longlist being announced recently and the lot of us selfishly whoring ourselves as a result (including me… by the way, voting closes tomorrow so go over and vote AdamMaguire.com for Best News/Current Affairs blog… please? Thanks), I thought a more noble IBA-related post was in order. So, I figured I’d put forward […]
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