I’ll be facing off against some interesting characters later today in the Hilton Hotel.
Proposing Team
– Adrian Weckler, (Journalist – Sunday Business Post )
– Alex French, (Director – Bitbuzz )
– Brody Sweeney, (Chairman – O’Briens Sandwich Bars )
– Eoin Costello, (MD – Novara Technology )
Opposing Team
– Conor Lynch, (Online Marketing Manager – RaboDirect )
– John Kennedy, (Journalist – Silicon Republic )
– Michele Neylon, ( MD – Blacknight Solutions )
– Peter Lawless, (Founder – 3r Sales and Marketing )

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While I was preparing for the talk I gave recently on blogging I decided to spend some time looking into blogging solutions under windows with asp / asp.net.
I was left feeling completely underwhelmed by what little I found.
Hasn’t anyone produced a semi-decent windows based blogging engine?
Maybe I’m not looking in the right places, but I’d love to be pointed in the right way.

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From 20 June 2006 AFNIC is liberalising .fr domain registrations.
Similar to a growing number of ccTLD registries, the French registry will be opening its doors to everyone with an address in France.
They’ve set up a special site to publicise the changes, which is aptly named faites-vous-un-nom.fr

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As I mentioned a few days ago, I am currently toying with the idea of podcasting.
I got some excellent feedback from people about the physical equipment that I should be using and have since been exploring the software options under linux, as I will be doing it from my home desktop which primarily runs Ubuntu linux and not windows.
In terms of hardware I should have Shure SM58 microphone within a few days. I’ll be able to hook that into my soundcard via the XLR to jack cable that I already bought off eBay.
In the meantime I may resort to using Skype. I came across a script which supposedly lets you record your skype conversations without having to use two pcs, however I haven’t been able to test this yet (Anyone wanting to help me test this theory please email me!)
The choice software for mixing the audio on linux seems to be restricted to Audacity. It’s supposed to be functional, although the GUI is really ugly.
In terms of listening to podcasts iPodder seems to be the most reliable software client that I’ve come across.
The other issue that I needed to find a solution for was the actual publishing of the podcasts themselves.
While I know that feedburner supports podcasts I wanted to explore other options as well.
Should I publish podcasts here or on a separate podcast blog?
I’m erring towards a separate blog simply to manage the feeds etc., but I’m still not sure.
One interesting article I came across gives some insight into using torrents as well as, or as a replacement for, standard mp3s. I’m not sure how easy implementing that would be, but it could be worth exploring in greater depth.

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Well not exactly ….
Rob posted about a silly misunderstanding that arose in the US when a web server running Centos was not configured correctly.
Although the default Apache homepage for most distros, including Centos, explains exactly what it is and why it is being displayed, one “tech savvy” city manager seems to have had “issues” with it and accused the Centos developers of hacking the site!
More coverage here and here

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Since I installed dapper on this desktop (and this server) the other week I’ve been slowly uncovering some of the new features.
Thunderbird is now in version 1.5 which comes with a number of new features including native OPML support.

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Over the last couple of weeks Paypal have made a number of changes to their emails.
In what has to be the dumbest move by a company of their calibre they have started embedding Javascript in their emails!!
The Javascript is obviously part of their web analytics being provided by DoubleClick, but why they think that any sane person will even be able to view their emails is another thing.
I’d love to hear their rationale… or maybe I wouldn’t …

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I haven’t posted much over the last few days for a number of reasons (in no particular order):

• I’ve been sick
• I’ve been incredibly busy (being sick didn’t help)
• I was migrating this site to a new server
• PHP5 and WordPress don’t play nice together

I’ll be looking into the entire php5 issue over the next couple of days.. …
So far I’ve learnt that WordPress 1.* works fine with php5. WordPress 2.* doesn’t
You can access the wp-admin section, but you can’t actually view posts, which kind of defeats the purpose of a blog…

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I picked up Doug Isenberg’s excellent guide to internet law, The Gigalaw Guide to Internet Law, the other week.
While it is written from an American perspective it goes a long way to explain many of the basic concepts that are as relevant in Ireland as they are in any other country.
The main topics covered are:

• Copyright Law
• Domain Names and Trademarks
• Patent Law
• Privacy
• Free Speech
• Contract Law
• Employment Law

If you treat it as source of information then it can help you get to grips with the concepts, though it obviously won’t replace your solicitor.
The book is written in nice easy to understand language and cites plenty of tangible examples, so getting to grips with some of the more obtuse topics is not as hard as it could have been.
All in all I’d recommend it to anyone doing business online

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Websites that do not display or function correctly in browsers other than Internet Explorer are very irritating.
Yesterday afternoon I tried to book a driving test online. While the site displayed perfectly in Firefox the order form did not work correctly, so I was forced to use Internet Explorer to complete the booking.
It’s 2006! Surely high profile websites are tested against “other” browsers these days?
I’ve started a thread on this just to see what other sites people come across. If you know of any please feel free to add them.

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