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Fluffy Links – Tuesday August 18th 2009

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

73man is back but as 53degrees. Thank God he stayed at an odd number.

Photowalk in Cork on September 26th. See more on Chez Donncha. Discounted rooms for the Friday and Saturday in the Montenotte Hotel for those traveling from elsewhere. Donncha also running a raffle to win three free rooms. Photobloggers getting well looked after. Kudos to Hotel Pat for getting the deal and Donncha for being the ringmaster.

SEEPP (South East Enterprise Platform Programme) is looking for business start-ups and that the closing date for applications is fast approaching – August 27th!

Analogue Magazine now has an online TV show.

Episode 0 begins with Choice Prize nominated Adrian Crowley chatting about the creative process behind his lush new album ‘Season of the Sparks’

Bandit Country and now Pirate Country?

For Gav, rubick’s cube mosaics.

Words don’t come cheap. A million quid to be shown how to use power-words?

NTM – That’s my people

2FM learns too late about perils of ignoring their audience

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Quote via Irish Times:

2FM has been targeting a 15 to 34 age group for a very long time,” she explained. “It is a very crowded part of the market. There are very strong local stations chasing that same audience. They are in a position to be very close to their listeners like guerrilla radio.

2FM got close instead by turning off talk and interactions in a time when the world interacts more. So can we have Rick’s voice back now?

Fluffy Links – Monday August 17th 2009

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Dave Hollingworth has released KPInator, an open source tool to help companies with their KPIs.

Eoin goes over the numbers for those interested in book sales in Ireland.

Via Daniela – a one stop er shop for gallery shops. Buy all your books and tat from the Tate, Barbican, Saatchi Gallery etc.

The Irish Print and Packaging forum.

Absolut Gimp?

To arrr.

Nice video (at the end) on Mad Men. Thank God it returns.

So new PR hires are expected to know social media. Eh, duh.

Meebo, a hugely successful startup is doing a regular series of posts on how to start a start-up. Nice one guys.

Two Steps Behind

Next to Read’s on Nassau

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

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See here.

Well that was uplifting – Banter

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

Last evening I went to Banter, a music-related discussion event and the theme was DIY gigs.

Niall McGuirk spoke about the Hope Collective and how it came about from the punk scene in the 80s. Fascinating stuff. Oh and check out his Vegan Cookbook/Touring Diary.

Dylan Haskins is the youngfella that runs Hide Away house gigs and the record label and now has directed a film about DIY culture called Roll Up Your Sleeves. Well done to Willie Walsh and everyone in Project Arts for encouraging Dylan too on this.

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This is the trailer for it:

Loved the honesty from Niall and Dylan and Jim Carroll was a great host. The whole event was super positive and everyone that ever wanted to do something and couldn’t motivate themselves to do it should chat to Niall and Dylan. Dylan talking about doing a tour of Ireland with five bands using Bus Eireann buses while a van with the gear of all the bands following the buses, loved it.

Niall and Dylan did something that marks them out – they did stuff when they were told they could not or society made it impossible to do. They just routed around the obstacles. When Dylan couldn’t get a space for all-ages gigs, he hosted them in his gaff. Niall routed around MCD and venue owners and organised a Fugazi concert. By thinking differently and being driven they got what they wanted and all because they had a passion and love for music.

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The DVD was for sale after the gig and I got one or two to send to people who are thinking of starting their own businesses as this DVD should be watched by more than those who are involved in the DIY music scene. Every business school should have a copy of this, there are lessons to be learned. Another bit of it I loved was the way that they busked for petrol money to bring them back from the gig and how they worked as a group to promote themselves before and after the gig too. The band makes and sells their own merchandise. I got the sense that people did things for the love of it but knew how to use their creativity to further fund their creativity. Jim Carroll has a good piece on Dylan here.

I also bought two DVDs to give away here on the aul blog to whoever wants one. First come first served with the condition you watch it with at least one other person. Overall, one of the best events I’ve been at in a long time which has added a spring to my step. Well done to Bodytonic et al for putting it together. There are some amazing non-corporate things happening in music and arts in Ireland right now. I think a good future is on the way for those not worrying only about drawing down grants. Interesting times, interesting times.

70 Funded places for unemployed graduates on ICT course at UCD

Friday, August 14th, 2009

via the Mulley inbox:

Seventy funded places for unemployed graduates are available on a Graduate Certificate in Information and Communications Technology at UCD, as part of the announcement by the Minister for Education of 1,000 part-time postgraduate third-level places for unemployed workers. Successful applicants will have €2,500 of the €2,750 fee funded by the Higher Education Authority.

The deadline for receipt of applications is 24 August 2009.

There are also four other Graduate Certificate programmes, in entrepreneurship, information technology, sustainable agriculture, green technologies, or nanobio science. See here.

Princess Bride Twitter evening – live blog

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

The Princess Bride Twitter evening kicks off at 8.01pm tonight. Tag your tweets with #AsYouWish or join the liveblog below. Or click through here.

Fluffy Links – August 13th 2009

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

The Fluffiest Fluffy Link ever. McFluffistan.

New NI Website called Property Pal. Their blog has a great post on Crazy Irish Laws. Some really are plain nutso.

New Blog: LeCunt.

Ghost estates. Housing kaboom. Housing kabust.

What a cool job. Jolt Online are looking for a Games statistician.

Of course it has to be a Paddy that inspired the Labour movement.

Disposable plates that you can feed to birds after.

Big Gay Ice Cream Truck.

Antony and the Johnsons Crazy right now

Hot Chip & Peter Gabriel – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

We have a Print Museum?

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Visited the Print Museum yesterday. It’s in Beggars Bush Barracks, Haddington Road. Hang a left after the Schoolhouse. It’s small but they have some nice machines used in printing history the past few decades.

There’s a guided or unguided tour. In fairness the place is quite small, you can look around in 30 minutes or so but it’s still worth a journey. They also do what look like very interesting workshops that I never have time to get to.

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This is the plate for the last edition for the Sunday Press:
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Also outside, we have cannons spiked into the ground:
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Fluffy Links – Wednesday August 12th 2009

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Soundcheck getting in on the Princess Bride online Tweetathon. If you’re heading there you can see PB on the screen and also see the Twitter interactions. We also have a Liveblog for those not on Twitter.

A night of the claws out. Feminists and proto-feminists talk Lisbon. DeBurca versus McKenna and Marylou demanding to be let finish. Her. Sentences.

WhoseView (a client) has people putting up reviews on eeerything and anything. Some witty feller has reviewed the Winding Stair and it’s quite fun. Take that Amazon three wolf t-shirt reviews.

David Byrne allows you to play a building. Wonder should I head back to London just for this? Only around for a few weeks.

Closer than you think. Mapping remoteness.

less than 10 per cent of the world’s land is more than 48 hours of ground-based travel from the nearest city

Neil Armstrong really was a tough mofo. They don’t build them like they used to.

Via Unarocks is a vid of Anne and Barry today. Jam!: