Damien Mulley

Eames Solicitors sent in this Freedom of Information request:

Reports which relate to the telecommunications assets of the State or State owned bodies, one of which relates to Project Dingle.

The Department says yup, you probably mean this report: “Potential for Enhancing and Augmenting SemiState Telecommunicaton Assets”. Then tells them due to commercial sensitive information in the report and because of the deliberation process of Government decisions, they can’t provide it. Application refused. Eames appealed. Again refused.

All details here in this pdf and this one.

Uh, so why can’t the public find out what taxpayer paid for assets are and what the Government is doing with them?

Pronounce it Pixie. Yeah? Good.

The blurb:

Pixie is a popular photo sharing site based in Ireland. Launched in August 2007, Pixie has registered users from over 120 countries and is currently storing millions of images on their behalf. Pixie’s free service which includes an upload quota of 500MB/month, is used by both professional and amateur photographers, families, friends, students, charities and photo bloggers, i.e. everyone!

So yes, an Irish Flickr some will say but it’s a tad easier to get your stuff out of Pix.ie. Tried that with Flickr recently? It also looks prettier.

But what I personally like more (Jesus when did I become a capitalist?) is the fact that they allow co-branding and commercial profiles. Promoters also get access to the Pix.ie commercial API which can feed live photo streams of their event or competition back to their official site. Throw in blogs and discussion forums too and you have a really nice hosted social platform for events and promotions. Why build something and self-host for a limited-time event? Makes sense. I also hear that groups are on the way.

Also, the way the images are displayed are much nicer than Flickr too and as has been spotted by those rascally Irish bloggers, they’ve got a nice deal going with Guinness Storehouse where people upload the photos they took at the Guiness Storehouse to Pix.ie.

That 3D gallery looks great, so spread the word about Pix.ie

Want to be part of the Tuesday Push, find out how.

Coming up in the next few weeks are Toddle, Crewger, eWrite and more!

So the 2009 Blog Awards are now booked for February 21st 2009 in the Cork Airport International Hotel. There’s a special room rate of €100 per room or €55 per person sharing if you mention the Blog Awards. Just so you know.

RTE have a special series on next week called the Global Classroom.

We go to India, Rwanda and Kenya where three programmes, including the Irish charity Camara, are using three very different approaches to achieve the same goal: educating the world’s youngest citizens.

And it’s all webified too:

Next week, RTÉ.ie News Editor Joe Zefran and journalist Blathnaid Healy (left) will bring you a special website with full-length features, photo gallery, and audio/video highlights including web-exclusive interviews.

What I think is the big thing with this is that the RTE.ie team not RTE (yeah there’s a diff) will be showing their wares on the Six One News and News on Two. Nice one.

Via Enda

I ask a question about Babylon 5 (in 140 chars or less) and get back great feedback from people in 140 characters or less. 11 replies in 10 minutes.

Seems a date has been put down for eircom to sue ComReg in the Commercial court about ComReg’s recent line share price reductions.

Commercial Court goes on hols at the end of the month so either they don’t go to Costa Del Law and listen to the case or they do and the case is adjourned until October. Meaning line share prices are frozen until then.

Stay tuned.

I’m working with Roger from IrishBlogs.ie at the moment to get feedback from the Irish Blogging Community on how they want to see IrishBlogs.ie progress. A survey is now up asking people what changes they’d like to see to the site and in what priority. Roger won an Award at the first Blog Awards for his contribution to the Irish Blogging community because of the way IrishBlogs.ie brought so many of us together. It’s still a community focused site today.

There will be some changes to the way the site looks as well as some under the hood changes to add some features which will hopefully make the site even more useful. While we’re excited about some of the changes we think can be made, the crowd and the community always trump the ideas of a few. So tell IrishBlogs.ie what you want to see from the site.

Please also spread the word and encourage as many others as possible to give feedback via the survey. The more the merrier.