Damien Mulley

Er, there isn’t such a category at the Blog Awards and that word is mank, but in time, you never know, there could be an award of that type. There are many Irish people who have done a lot to make podcasting popular in Ireland but in my personal view there’s one who was there at the start, spread the word to all who would listen, showed how it could be done, created countless podcasts on varying topics and really and sometimes annoyingly, evangelised the shit out of podcasting. Today, this week, this month he is still throwing lots of energy into showing the potential for podcasting.

Who’s this person? Well today he went off to collect a person of the year award while over in the UK. Now while some people made the damaging statement that I have an axe to grind with Bernie Goldbach and we have some old rivalry going on, I don’t think that is the truth at all. I’m still not into podcasting and still haven’t made my own podcast as I don’t have the energy and passion to do it (though I did buy a mic for recording recently) but Bernie and his utility belt weighed down with gadgets and his portable recording studio in the shape of a wheeled travel bag has energised Irish podcasting. He deserves recognition for what he has done for the Irish podcasting scene and maybe in time that’ll get reflected in more than inbound links to him.

Well done Bernie.

FF press release bollox.

Suzy fact-checks the latest copy and paste story from the Indo.

YouTube – a fantastic medium for those that sign. Brilliant use of an existing technology. Good show!

Google stopping/not supporting their search API? Apparently it was shit anyway.

Another great Liam Daly painting, this one is of Kinsale.

Edelman are doing “hosted conversations” or Ad Widgets as Gigaom are calling them. Lets hope this will go better than that Walmart sham.

Justin Timberlake and the SNL crew suggest a special Christmas present for the ladies:

The Minister to Nowhere, courtesy of VoteTube.org:

The 12 Youtubes of Christmas

I took the crap, the weird, the odd, the tack and the Christmassy and threw them together for this. The last video at the end of this post will play each video one after the other.

On the first day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
A partridge:

in a pear tree:

On the second day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Two turtle doves:

And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the third day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Three French hens:

Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the fourth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Four calling birds:

Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the fifth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Five golden rings:
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the sixth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Six geese a-laying:
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the seventh day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Seven swans a-swimming:
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the eighth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Eight maids a-milking:
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the ninth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Nine ladies dancing:
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the tenth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Ten lords a-leaping:
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the eleventh day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Eleven pipers piping:
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

On the twelfth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Twelve drummers drumming:

Eleven pipers piping,
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.

Full Recap:

Kathy Sierra on conference t-shirts that should be made for women too. Now if only we had women to go to Irish tech conferences. I’ll get WD40 for that gate.

Nice rules for organising conferences.

Open letter to porn on Craigslist.

A Cowbell Easter Egg in GMail Chat. This is cowbell:

Colm O’Gorman has a “blog”. Press release archive really.

How to be a wine snob. Would Julian approve?

At long bloody last old people can get the free phone option with mobiles. All along it was a landline only option. Makes complete sense to give free phones to OAPs. A Dom Jolly sketch comes to mind “HELLO? WHAT? NO, I’M COLLECTING MY PENSION. NO, THEY ALL SMELL OF PISS.”

Jesus Christ, I thought Sascha Baron-Cohen was taking the piss when he said Borat was attending the holocaust denial conference. I guess not. Taking the piss that there was such a conference I mean.

Manuel is back and writing some fascinating pieces. Is welcome you are back.

Bill Clinton doesn’t like Santa:

I love this. Ths guy manages to quickly and easily train his cat to turn on a light switch:

Gimme a text if you’re about Dublin. Number is on contact page.

Add the Blog Awards as a friend on Bebo. Coming soon … one for IrelandOffline.

Pat tagged me a while back but I was too busy to respond. 5 things that people don’t know about me.

1. In airplanes I do my very very best to sit in odd number rows.
2. When I die I really would prefer some violent impact type death then slowly fading away while being eaten alive by cancer.
3. When I worked in a hospital I saw dozens of dead people and had to move most of them down to the fridges where they are kept before the undertakers arrive. It really never phased me as an 18 year old. The one death that still haunts me is of a baby that died of cot death. I can still see her in the arms of the ambulance driver as he ran into the resuscitation room and still hear her mother crying outside as they worked on her baby .
4. Part of the reason I’m doing my law degree is so that I can hopefully make use of it in some way to get some legal rights so that I can marry the guy I love. (It’s all about the tax benefits really!
5. Like the rows in a plane, I have a personal rule that lists always have to end in uneven numbers.

Liam Daly has some quite nice Irish paintings on special offer on his sales site. 99 dollars plus 25 dollars postage. Which is less than 100 euros when you do the currency conversion (or thereabouts). It’d make a nice investment or a present for someone.

I’m most fond of the Ballina one but the Green Fields one is great too.

Was away all week, working from the Paris office so I don’t really have enough for fluffy links today. Instead I want to try something I’ve seen work on other blogs: I’ll turn over this post to those that read this. Any links you want to suggest or topics you want to debate, just stick them in here. Don’t forget to engage with the others who leave comments.

I’m in not-terribly-dire but definitely some kind of need to update my Irish links list on the front page of my Le/An/The/Blog. If I am not linking to you, then let me know and I’ll add you to the list or maybe I won’t. I’m in a moody mood.