John M. Ryan

Forget launching a website – just launch a blog instead

If 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 [...]

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LinkListing Tuesday

If 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 [...]

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Irish 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 [...]

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LinkListing Wednesday

So, 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 [...]

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LinkListing Monday

Important 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 [...]

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Sold!

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 [...]

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Where have all the bloggers gone

Having *shite* Internet access in Dublin, I was delighted to come back to dear old Tipperary, to use my DSL connection. However, imagine my shock HORROR, to find many of my favorite blogs… gone. So many people have hung up their ‘blogging Hat’, including Ebby Brett, come back soon Ebby. In happy news, (happy news [...]

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