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IDAFYfA 1 – Larry Gogan – The 60 second interview

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

IDAFYfA – I didn’t ask for your advice. You can guess the small f.

Following on from the blog post about viral ads, I’ve decided to come up with equally useless suggestions for other companies and individuals without them asking. Thus the name of this not very regular column.

First victim is the eternal Larry Gogan. Larry, famous for his sixty second quiz would be ideal to host a podcast called “Sixty Second Interviews”. Like many publications in Ireland (though they fail to mention it) it would be a pay to be interviewed style segment. Corporates would pay 500 euros to have Larry Gogan interview them, but just in sixty seconds. Not a lot can be said in that time but with the right questions and an interviewee with some coaching, enough could be presented. Obviously there’ll be a chatty style preamble with the guest before the ticking stopwatch but the whole segment would take no more than five minutes.

Rent a professional studio for one day each week, have Larry come in and interview 10 or so individuals. Larry wins, the backer wins, the interviewees win. The legend of larry carries on for another few years, the company would be happy to show off that they were interviewed by Larry and tell all their clients and there’s enough money for Larry to interview non-paying guests too.

Lesbians lesbians lesbians!

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

The vast lesbian conspiracy it seems.

Fluffy Link – January 19th 2007

Friday, January 19th, 2007

1 Million Irish Bebo profiles! Holy crap. How many are active though?

Now this is odd. A blog devoted to the lowercase l in words where the rest of the lETTERS are in uppercase.

Someone built up a community in social networking site in Orkut and then once it was built they went off and sold it to some marketing company. You got to wonder if marketing shills are targeting people with hugely popular social networking profiles or blogs and trying to DRINK PEPSI FOR A REFRESHING TASTE infuence people with sneaky methods of pimping their client’s shite.

Someone likes to write letters to the editor of the Indo. LOTS of them.

Joanna Newsom plays Dublin on April 14th. I’d recommend buying her album Ys and consider going.

The people’s Ard Fheis?

More fluffy links. But not from me.

Telco 2.0. 27th-29th March in London. Pat, you going?

Ethics books are stolen more than non-ethics book.

Bebo competition – Nintendo Wii as prize if 1000 enter

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

I’d actually have expected more people to have joined the Bebo competition by now. 200 so far. Current prize is an iPod Shuffle. If it reaches 400 then the prize will be an iPod Nano. If it hits 1000 then it’ll be a Nintendo Wii.

Get all your Bebo friends to enter. It takes just 60 seconds to enter your profile by going to www.Awards.ie/bebo and then adding this profile to yours.

Given that most people have 50-100 friends on Bebo, you’d think just a few persuasive people could have gotten hundreds entering this competition. Still it is an interesting experiment to find out how to engage the Bebo generation.

Ask the Bert at Davos?

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Jeff Jarvis has started to encourage people to make videos in which they ask some world leaders some questions. It appears if you are lucky enough you can have your video shown to one of the leaders and they’ll be asked to respond. He suggests putting them up on YouTube tagged “davos07â€?.

In another post he has a list and Bertie Ahern is on the list. Anything you want to ask the Bert? I’d suggest also tagging the video with “votetube”.

Fluffy Links – January 18th 2007

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Circuit board luggage tags. Right, like these will get through airport security.

Diane Duane aka Out of Ambit points to Hugh Laurie’s acceptance speech at the Golden Globes. Why is this guy not also writing comedy?

A proper fuck you to traffic wardens. Even if it did take 6 years.

Busted live on-air for cheating on her boyfriend. Ouch.

There really is no escaping some Cork bloggers.

Via Digg, Schipol airport has etched flies in urinals so guys aim at them and spill less.

For Steven. He gets the joke.

Borat acceptance speech:

Noel Dempsey on TodayFM around 6pm tonight – Tune in

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Noel Dempsey, Minister for Dialup Communications will be on the Last Word this evening on TodayFM around 6pm. As usual with a Minister, no opposition will be on but Matt Cooper will be asking some questions. I’d suggest that you tune in and text in and email in questions.

If you want to make a comment then email: lastword@todayfm.com or text in using the shortcode: 53102 (Normal text rates apply)

Linked – You in?

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

There are lots of various ways to network with people in Ireland, the pub, golf, organisations like the IIA, First Tuesday and IT@Cork and electronically there’s LinkedIn. I haven’t greatly researched this but the only business orientated social networking site that Irish people seem to use greatly is LinkedIn. Are there other sites that people use? Sure there’s mySpace and even Bebo which can be used for networking if you want it to be but LinkedIn is geared for business networking which while isn’t a whole different kettle of fish, certainly is fish with different stripes. Mixed metaphors are worth two in the bush.

I’m surprised that TCH via their RecruitIreland.com site or IrishJobs.ie haven’t started down that route. Perhaps instead Bebo will be the darkhorse and do something like this. Afterall if they can retain their Irish userbase then they’ll have more access to candidates than most of the job sites out there. Bebo Jobs anyone? A few more cells in a DB and hey presto, users can add lots of employment history and job preferences to their profiles. Actually is it one of the Irish Bebo investors that’s invested into some job site too?

Anyways, if you are on LinkedIn, say hello to me on it. This is my profile.

Bonus link Via Adam Platti is Guy Kawasaki’s guide to making a better LinkedIn profile. It’s like SEO for social networking! Makes sense.

Fluffy Links – January 17th 2007

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

One night stand sleeping positions and what they mean. Some are hilarious. Some are not.

See the movie Blood Diamond for free on Wedn 24th in Dublin, Galway and Cork. Only if you are in the draw early enough.

BT sponsored Young Scientists Expo had shit connectivity? More hilarity!

Cute designer buttons.

Making the song “Ironic” actually ironic.

Running from Camera. Fun idea. Set camera timer to 2 seconds and then leg it and see how far you get before the photo is taken.

Please turn off all screensavers before a presentation. BarCampers take note.

Via Jeff Jarvis. A public defender representing a prisoner at Gitmo makes a video presenting his defense.

Aine Chambers retires – [this space left intentionally blank]

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Jett releases the sad sad news that Sligo Dame Aine Chambers has retired. She was the best thing to happen to the boring Irish Internet in ages. She’s been looking after Sligozone for ten years. That’s dedication. Ten years like! I think Jett is right about a lifetime award of some sort. Will the Netvisonaries give her a nod or the Golden Spiders? Come to think of it, I seem to recall I nominated her for the Netvisionary awards and I think others did too. What happened with that?

Aine, I wish you the best and I encourage you to at least keep taking some of the wonderful photos of Sligo which, might not be known by many but were used in some books. I wish the site was left stay there. It’d be nice for all those that Google for Sligo to find something that contains genuine Sligo content and not some damned spam trap for cheap hotels or whatever.