The Archives
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03.26.08Forget launching a website – just launch a blog insteadIf you listen to a local radio station, or use a community resource, such as GAA or even a Credit Union, you will most lightly find that they all have a website of some description. Most of these websites present you with a terrible design, featuring little content made using web 0.01 templates; others have an amazing design with bells and whistles and loads of those annoying flash animations, with little actual updated content. I often wonder why these organisations, such as my own local radio station do not simply launch a blog instead. Being able to add posts when necessary ...
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03.13.07LinkListing TuesdayIf you had to choose 5 blogging tools that were the only ones you could use for the next 12 months what would they be and why? What would be your top 5? Mine are: Google Reader Wordpress Firefox (spellchecker) Flickr Akismet The Blog Herald discusses 29 Traffic Generating Tips From 29 Bloggers. Entertainment giant Viacom Media has announced that it is going to sue web search engine Google and video sharing website YouTube for $1bn (£517m). Oh! Paramount – do us all a favour LEAVE STAR TREK ALONE ,your wrecking it! x And for you Twits out there – Twitter users ,that is, Alex King has been busy… ...
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03.12.07Irish Bloggers: Whats your vacation day?Mark over at weblogtoolscollection.com writes that Sunday is their Blog Holiday/vacation day, so it got me wondering what do Irish Bloggers take as their day off. Myself, I never write posts at weekends, nor do I read blogs at weekends. But I rarely write a post every day either? So what day do you take off (If any any)? Some people take the weekends to backup, update wordpress or CMS to the latest version, decide on next weeks topics, or browse through the Feed reader! And believe it or not some people even go out at the weekends!!!!SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Irish Bloggers: ...
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01.31.07LinkListing WednesdaySo, there seems to have been lots happening online when it comes to the blog world. And I missed most of them due to work committments One of the first interesting piece of news is that Google Reader has what they call a small update, this is something interesting though, you can new view imbedded Youtube videos (as well as other video sites) in your Google Feed Reader, currently this crashes my browser window a bit, but that’s on an old windows PC, I’m sure it works well on my Mac at home. “We have another small update to Reader regarding video. ...
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01.08.07LinkListing MondayImportant security fix for wordpress users, however remember to do a full backup before the upgrade, I have read that this fix is not the ‘end all’ fix Darren has 5 prerequisites for blogging success Taiwanese firm plans to sue Apple Amy Winehouse leaves stage after one song Kylie is named world's best dressed LIMERICK’S private sector has contributed almost EUR200,000 to promoting and regenerating the city London Celebrates Star Trek at 40 This Weekend SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "LinkListing Monday", url: "http://johnmryan.com/technology/linklisting-monday/" });
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11.22.06Sold!About a month or so ago, a UK based company (I wont say their names because, I am not sure they would mind me blogging about this), asked me if I wanted to sell my Celebrity Blog. Immediately I decided, no, but on consideration, I though of a number of reasons why I should sell it. Having never sold a blog before (I’m not even sure if people sell their blogs, as a rule – I don’t mean personal blogs of course), I was unsure of the process involved? I was also considering the fact that the person asking about ...