Archive for June, 2007
Out of time?
Friday, June 29th, 2007Reading this morning’s Irish Times, I spotted something that doesn’t seem to add up.
Karlin Lillington has a mid-sized article on the imminent US iPhone launch (subs required), and says that it will go on sale at 6pm, Californian time. However, the article adds that this is 10am Irish time, but it’s not.
California is behind Ireland […]
Have you seen Ahmer Khokhar?
Thursday, June 28th, 2007Markham Nolan, deputy editor of The Irish Echo in Australia has been detailing the apparent plagiarism of some of his paper’s work by one Ahmer Khokhar.
Khokhar, a freelancer who’s based in Australia, seems to be taking stories from the Irish ex-pat press in the country and pitching them under his own name to Irish-based newspapers […]
Revolting American journalists
Thursday, June 28th, 2007Mika Brzezinski, an anchor on MSNBC’s morning show (actually called ‘Morning Joe’), recently had enough of Paris Hilton and decided let everyone know about it.
Her producers figured Hilton’s release from prison was top-story material, to which Brzezinski disagreed.
It’s really too-little, too-late, however it’s still good to see someone in US news be so clearly agitated […]
iPhone fever
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007Stateside tech-heads are gearing up for the launch of Apple’s long awaited iPhone and with a lack of hands-on reviews so far, their European equivalents are sure to be watching the event with great interest.
Since it was first unveiled to the world at the start of the year the iPhone has become a major object […]
How not to deal with unhappy customers
Thursday, June 21st, 2007I’m probably the last blogger in all of blog-land to mention this, but it’s worth reading up on if you haven’t already.
Long story, short:
Damien Mulley (formerly of Ireland Offline) returns from the Reboot conference in Copenhagen and arrives in Dublin Airport to find that his bag is lost. He contacts the company in charge of […]
Dealing with innovation, the Paddy’s way
Monday, June 18th, 2007As people up and down the country begin to quake at the thought of Ireland being left behind because of a lack of innovation, the people over at Paddy’s Valley seem to be doing something constructive about the problem.
While the aim of the project isn’t a purely economic one, it certainly has huge potential in […]
Eoghan Harris calls himself and his ‘paper childish
Sunday, June 17th, 2007In today’s Sunday Independent Eoghan Harris comments on the need for idealistic compromise and the childishness, rather than superiority, of those who refuse to move on their core beliefs.
The point is one worthy of debate, but Harris seems to be distinguishing himself and his newspaper as ‘moral innocents’ and children in light of his definition […]
The N Word
Thursday, June 7th, 2007Today sees the beginning of a fresh racism row stemming from Channel 4’s Big Brother, and the media coverage has so far been very interesting to watch.
The story goes that a Big Brother contestant has been evicted for directing the term ‘nigger’ at a housemate - the exact context of the use isn’t clear (although […]
RTÉ.ie starting to do features
Thursday, June 7th, 2007While RTÉ.ie’s election coverage was a little bit lacking in comparison to what it had on Radio and TV at the time, it was a step forward for the broadcaster’s online offerings.
The constituency map and voting breakdown isn’t anything we shouldn’t expect from them (and they’ve had it before), but things like the “punter’s guide” […]
Rant: UPS are useless
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007I’m going to take a page out of Damien’s book and rant about some terrible service I’ve been enduring lately.
A week or so ago my iPod shuffle kicked the bucket having worked perfectly up until then. I did the usual troubleshooting recommended by the Apple site and got nowhere so decided to get it replaced […]
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