Before, we went to work. Now, we go to shop. With Ireland’s booming economy and America’s flagging currency it has become a recent Irish ritual to make a brief trip State-side to stock up on bargains in time for Christmas. This year, a few members of my family are joining the temporary exodus and heading [...]
This is a story that was supposed to be published in The Irish Times way back when but for some reason or another it wasn’t. It relates to wikipedia edits made by someone in a Government department and was researched and written back when the joys of the WikiScanner was discovered by everyone. To the [...]
There is a thin line between being seen as a in touch with the modern world and being seen as completely out of touch. There is a thin line between getting the joke and being the joke. There is a thin line between being seen as respectable and in tune and being seen as foolish [...]
Congratulations to the five winners of the Science Week competition – Kevin, Brian, Monscooch, David and Johnny. It was a great idea by the people at Forfás/Edelman and became the talking point of the Irish blog community all last week – personally it was a lot of fun to think about my favourite gadgets from [...]
Here’s a transcript of my article from the Media & Marketing section of The Sunday Business Post on marketing and social networking; found in today’s edition: Pushing your products successfully on sites such as Myspace.com, Facebook.com and Bebo.com takes a savvy approach, writes Adam Maguire. Social networking sites offer huge potential to companies willing to [...]
To celebrate Science Week bloggers are being invited to talk about the effect that science has had in their lives through a range of topics – each day the organisers will reward the best post with a Nintendo Wii console. This post is one of my entries to the competition. “Q2 – In your opinion [...]
To celebrate Science Week bloggers are being invited to talk about the effect that science has had in their lives through a range of topics – each day the organisers will reward the best post with a Nintendo Wii console. This post is one of my entries to the competition. “Q2 – Which invention has [...]
To celebrate Science Week bloggers are being invited to talk about the effect that science has had in their lives through a range of topics – each day the organisers will reward the best post with a Nintendo Wii console. This post is one of my entries to the competition. “Q2 – What’s the next [...]
To celebrate Science Week bloggers are being invited to talk about the effect that science has had in their lives through a range of topics – each day the organisers will reward the best post with a Nintendo Wii console. This post is one of my entries to the competition. “Q2 – What invention do [...]
Back in late August TV3 announced plans to revamp its nightly news broadcast (subs required), putting Vincent Browne at its helm and turning it into more of a current affairs programme than a news update. At the time it was reported that it would start in November 5th, and Browne even got some practice in [...]
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