I’ll be at Bar Camp in Cork today.. .. I’m just grabbing a quick coffee and checking some mails before heading up to the city
The lineup looks like it could be very interesting
See you there!
The clock is ticking….
Nominations for the 2006 Net Visionary Awards close on September 29th so get nominating!
I’m delighted to say that I’ve been nominated in two categories this year – Entrepeneur and Blogger!
I’ll be burying myself in domain disputes over the next couple of weeks as we have decided to pursue the actions regarding several infringements of our intellectual property.
As one of the domains in question is a .eu it will involve an ADR, which will be quite costly.
However I have no intention of letting a cybersquatter get away with infringing our IP.
We tried the relatively “nice” approach, so now the gloves are coming off
Since Feedburner rejected me I have been looking for other RSS ad solutions…
Yesterday I got an email from Text Link Ads offering me access to their beta of Feedvertiser. Less than 24 hours later they launched the service!
Apart from the obvious attraction of being able to make a bit of cash from your feeds you can also use the platform to push your own products, services or even affiliate links (I’ll probably be using it to push other sites / projects of mine)
Darren Rowse has already given a comprehensive review of the service
Inex, the Irish neutral exchange hit it’s highest peak to date earlier this afternoon with traffic across the exchange being recorded at 882.8mbps
It seems this also coincided with questions in the Dail (Irish parliament) 
It looks like US ISPs may be hit with Data Retention as well, though it’s not clear how long they will be expected to hold on to the data.
Why on earth can’t someone in Microsoft create a knowledgebase entry for a known issue?
Thank God Jimmy found the solution (on a non-Microsoft blog!!) to the black screen issue we had run into.
As per the blog entry that provides the solution:
Turns out this is a known issue, but not enough people have called in for it to become a knowledgebase article.
The solution is so simple as well …
Gah!
I’m on a large number of mailing lists that cover a wide range of topics including open source software, web technologies, spam filtering, dns, networking and a range of other topics.
Nearly all of the lists show who the message poster is and allow them to include their own email signature.
Only very rarely does any of the list content get “out of hand”.
Unfortunately not all lists are made equal.
The Enterprise Ireland eBusiness list is not equal by any stretch of the imagination.
Why?
All messages to the list are moderated, so any hopes of a “conversation” or “discussion” are doomed to failure.
If you post a message at 9am in reply to a message that appeared at 8.45 am it may not make it to the list until hours later.
The moderation of the list also includes the headers and all other “normal” content associated with emails.
If the poster has included a signature this “may” be included, but there is no guarantee. (On the plus side the twenty line signatures favoured by some people are banished)
For example, this morning someone posted the following:
Hi
Have any members got any ideas on a practical eBusiness project for an eBusiness course?
Any ideas welcome.
Thanks
So who is asking the question?
How can you respond to them?
“Dear Anonymous”??
On other mailing lists you are “laid bare”.
If your posts are seen to contribute positively then any messages from you will be viewed with a higher level of respect than those from a “newbie”.
That’s how peer networks tend to work.
You become a “trusted” source and your opinion increases in value.
Anonymous lists are a bit like anonymous comments on blogs.
They lend little value to the “web”.
It could be argued that forums lend a degree of anonymity, however they generally encourage the development of an online identity that is as identifiable as a person’s “real” name.
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been up and down to Cork a few times, as well as a trip to Clare and a couple of trips up to Dublin.
Each and every time I’ve had delays due to roadworks.
This evening I sat in my car for about 35 minutes outside Durrow (at least I think it was Durrow).
Is the entire country one big set of roadworks with pockets of road in between?
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