Us Now. Free to download docu that looks at user participation and the potential for change from this.
Us Now follows the fate of Ebbsfleet United, a football club owned and run by its fans; Zopa, a bank in which everyone is the manager; and Couch Surfing, a vast online network whose members share their homes with strangers.
Colour Shift. There’s an app for this: pretty colours moving across the screen looking like changing wallpaper.
Conor gives his thoughts on a CIO for Ireland. The person will have to be corrupt from day 1 to get such a job. When a Govt makes it policy to not mention broadband in speeches you can bet the CIO will have to be superpositive about the piece of string people have to use in order to check email. Having a good CIO in a poisonous Government and connected to the sinister Civil Servants who are complicit in all of this will mean nothing good happens.
‘Encounters at the End of the World’, taken from the title of the Werner Herzog Documentary is the blog of an Irish documentary filmmaker based in Kabul.
Want to go on a Mushroom Hunt on Saturday? Spaces available for readers of this site. First come, first come. Contact: bill < at > mushroomstuff.com. Worth 80 quid.
This is from the people that organise an amazing foodie weekend in Asturias. Nyom nyom. Pics.
Science Raps Challenge is a new competition organised by the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre at Univeristy College Cork and Teagasc Moorepark for Science Week Ireland 2009. All competition details can be found on http://microbemagic.ucc.ie
Interesting. Even with social networks, closeness is where power lies.
One point is crucial: We still live our lives in the real world. When we need someone to fix our roof, repair our car or educate our children, we find these things near our homes. We elect officials to govern us by geography. We pay taxes based on geography.
The Irish Hospice Foundation have a launch of their Zest Cookbook tomorrow. Bloggers are invited. Book website.
Excellent, missed this. Google gives you access to their OCR servers. Slightly buggy/laggy but still brilliant. Makes sense for Google to offer this too.
Great post from Des Traynor on building a web app and then growing it and finally selling it. One of the most pragmatic posts on this area I’ve read.
Making money from twitter and people who want text updates if people reply to them. People said this would not work for bebo and they were wrong. Maith and fear AgTweet.
A new initiative that is designed to inspire, inform and connect Ireland’s brightest innovators and entrepreneurs inSouth-East region between October and December 2009.