Archive for June, 2008
Homework - Teleworking combats the daily commute (B&F - 19th June 2008)
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008The latest issue of Business & Finance (with a front cover story on corporate governance) has an article by yours truly on the problems stemming from “teleworking” or the mobile office.
The magazine is available in most shops or online if you’re a subscriber - I’ll put up the text of the article in the ‘Portfolio‘ […]
Media and Lisbon
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008I recently took part in an episode of Inside Out for Dublin City FM on the topic of media and the Lisbon Treaty.
The discussion revolved around the suggestion that the British imports available in Ireland, which are generally Euro-sceptic, played a significant role in pushing the electorate towards the ‘No’ side. It also extended […]
New RTÉ channel will focus on free-to-air system (SBP - 22nd June 2008)
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008An article of mine on FTA satellite in Ireland is in today’s Sunday Business Post - you can find it here. The article is very much an overview of the state of FTA satellite in Ireland and the potential it now has considering the changes in content and availability.
The article has a brief look at […]
On Newstalk for the Sunday newspaper preview
Saturday, June 21st, 2008I’ll be on Newstalk’s Culture Shock at around 8:45pm this evening to go through some of tomorrow’s newspaper headlines.
Lisbon is likely to factor heavily - as it has for the past week - but here’s hoping there’ll be some variety of topics on the agenda besides that.
So if you’re the impatient type and can’t wait […]
Sunday Tribune’s website get a facelift
Monday, June 16th, 2008The Sunday Tribune’s website has gotten a much-needed overhaul having had one of the worst web-presences in Ireland for some time now.
The new site features RSS feeds, comments, an archive dating back to 2000 and a breaking news service (not sure if this is in-house or taken from an existing news/wire service) - all of […]
An account from a witness to beauty
Monday, June 16th, 2008After being absolutely blown away by Leonard Cohen on Saturday night, I knew I had to go again. He was just that good.
Let me explain.
Just before the gig on Saturday started my friend asked me how long I thought he’d play for. “It’ll either be 20 minutes or 3 hours”, I said, implying that it […]
Sure yer only fired, indeed and ye are
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008TV3 are looking for applicants to their version of The Apprentice, which will be headed up by none other than Dr. Bill Cullen, indeed and it will.
There doesn’t seem to be any details on what the winner will get (in terms of salary, contract, position etc.) but the programme’s mini-site (including application form) is here, […]
RTÉ to launch 24-hour online, mobile-accessible news channel (SBP - 8th June 2008)
Sunday, June 8th, 2008Below is an article of mine from today’s Sunday Business Post. The piece is about RTÉ’s plan to launch a 24-hour news channel online this coming week, which will stream the broadcaster’s news and current affairs programming as well as repeat it throughout the day.
For the moment there’s only limited scope for unique content on […]
Media Notes (06-06-07)
Friday, June 6th, 2008This week’s media notes:
The BCI have launched an investigation into Denis O’Brien’s radio interests after he reached the important milestone of having a 25% share in Independent News & Media. As mentioned last week, this sizeable stake will allow O’Brien to block special resolutions at board level - for example he will be able to […]
O2’s iPhone conundrum
Thursday, June 5th, 2008While we won’t know for certain until Steve Jobs takes the stage in San Francisco next Monday (at 6pm Irish time), it is all but certain that the centre-piece of his keynote to the WWDC will be the 3G iPhone.
Precise specifications and details are sketchy but various reports suggest the new model will feature GPS, […]
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