Tom Raftery
Goodbye Cork blogger’s dinner -Photo of a previous blogger’s dinner in Proby’s
Conor O’Neill has very kindly decided to organise a goodbye Cork blogger’s dinner in honour of my imminent departure for Spain.
Conor is calling it the Hasta Luego Blogger Dinner (Hasta Luego is Spanish for Goodbye, in case you didn’t know)!
If you would like to join us for a [...] more »
Lisbon Treaty exit poll -I voted in the Lisbon Treaty this morning. Probably my last time voting in this country (as I am moving to Spain next week!).
I’m curious, if I run a poll here and enough people respond truthfully, we should get an accurate exit poll!
So, if you voted in the Lisbon Treaty, how did you vote?
How [...] more »
Chris Ragobeer
Working is like playing a pinball game -- Ball goes up, ball goes down. If you're good, you won't let the ball drop. -Have you noticed that having a job and performing well at it resembles a pinball game? Ball goes up, ball goes down.When you first start out in a role or position, you are at level 1. The ball moves slowly, and you are quickly learning with every possible hit on... more »
My review of n49.ca | A site for local business reviews -I recently had the opportunity to vist the n49 booth at SES Toronto a week ago. Before I get into talking about the product I would like to mention the friendliness of the n49 team. Specifically, Tina A and just the video guy (I lost his business card, but he... more »
Erik Rasmussen
Extremadura Evening Walk -To finally wrap up my coverage of this year’s trip to Extremadura, I’m including some photos from an evening walk we took on the last day. There’s a rural park that we walk to sometimes.
Warning: This post contains broken glass, lambs, and wood carving.
Of course the park has a chapel.
Some kids were playing tennis [...] more »
Higos Chumbos: Prickly Sweetness -2008 was my sixth year going to Extremadura in August. One tradition that happens every year down there is picking higos chumbos (prickly pears). I used to think they were called higos chungos, which would mean “terrible figs” (chumbo doesn’t mean anything outside of American Spanish colloquialisms). According to Wikipedia, this particular [...] more »
John Redwood
Rip off government - or just muddled thinking? - Green taxes -The Taxpayers Alliance today have published another good piece of work pointing out just how much extra tax the government collects in the name of greenery, over and above the calculations of the cost of CO2 and pollution.
Others have worked out just how much more than the cost of road provision motorists have to pay. [...] more »
House prices down 10% - more to come -I heard this morning that UK house prices are now down by more than 10% so far this year. I listened in vain for a government Minister to come on to claim success from their policy. For years Ministers have told us we needed to make houses more affordable. They have become mighty [...] more »
Alf Rehn
An Ad I’ve Missed Out On (Until Now) -I love this, even though it is for a PC…
[From YouTube - HP Personal - Jay-Z (CEO of Hip-Hop)] more »
My new office - more »
Mark Relph
411.ca & Virtual Earth - Today 411.ca announced their new site design, along with the integration wi more »
MLS.ca gets a make-over. Welcome Realtor.ca -CREA launched a new interactive version of the MLS.ca site called REALTOR.CA. This is a welcome improvement to a site that every potential home buyer has likely used. Realtor.ca uses Virtual Earth (yes, that’s 2 major wins for Virtual Earth this week in Canada – 3 if you include ASK.COM in the US) and overlays the listing data onto the ma more »
Laura Ries
The time for change is now. -No, I’m not talking politics, I’m talking branding. And I’m talking specifically about my brand, my blog brand. Branding is not easy. Sometimes you don’t get it right and you need to make a change. For me, the time for... more »
Now the Race is On -This Presidential race has stacked up to be a true test of branding might. McCain/Maverick vs. Obama/Change. Both parties have found their footing and have refocused their campaigns and their message. It will be a true test of two brands... more »
Duncan Riley
Solis takes a good picture -Both show me tired, a little puffy, sadly (in retrospect) unshaven, bad hair (I’d confused the conditioner which said something like Apres Shampoo in french on it as being shampoo) but jeez Brian Solis takes a good pic.
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State of media delusion -I was in a cab yesterday and the driver had the radio tuned into what I believe was Ernie Sigley’s afternoon show, and they were talking job cuts at Fairfax. The discussion was not about how these job cuts are directly related to the downturn in print advertising caused by online alternatives, no, according to [...] more »
Dean Robinson
Fluency Admin 1.2 -Ok, before you go and get all excited I should say that this is a pretty basic update, mainly just compatibility. As most of you probably know WordPress released version 2.6 a few days ago, and those who follow me on Twitter (and you better be using Hahlo …or there shall be trouble :p) would [...] more »
Hahlo 3.1 - Now with even better searching -Its been an exciting month since the release of Hahlo 3, my analytics show that usage has increased approximately 300% since launch (wow), Twitter has been up and down and now looks like it getting back in order after the troubles of a week or so ago, and Summize have added some fancy new features [...] more »
Louis Rosenfeld
Fall workshops in Chicago and Washington, DC -Steve Krug and I are at it again. We'll be teaching our new workshops this fall in Chicago (October 16/17) and Washington, DC (November 11/12). We're offering discounts for early registration, for groups of three or more, and for signing... more »
Nate the Great -Pushing ten weeks and 14 pounds... More photos here.... more »
Alex Rudloff
UCF Football Starts Saturday at 6pm!... -I'm going to refrain from posting a ton of UCF stuff on this blog this year. Instead, I'll be dumping it out over on UCFinsider.com. If you live in the area, and you haven't been to a game -- this one will be a fun time and tickets should still be available (opposed to the USF game, which if there are any tickets left, are only available to season ticket holders). It's a night game so it should be considerably cooler than last year.Here's my more »
And now it's a race... -Lot's of emotion on the Palin VP pick by McCain, if you've been following my twitter stream you know I think it was a fantastic pick. I'll do my best to explain it in a non-partisan way. (I do, however, hold a conservative view of the role of gov't.. it doesn't really factor into this though). I'm also talking strictly strategy -- I'm positive Sarah Pa more »
Misha Rybalov
Putting My Business Life Online -My name is Misha Rybalov and this is my journey to create an Internet-based business.
I feel that I will have a strong presence on the web, one way or another and I guess documenting my business growth is part of that. I believe in the future of the Internet and I think we’ve barely scratched [...] more »
Web Business Goals for the Month - May 2007 -I’ve always been a planner type of person (sometimes even using planning as a way to procrastinate doing other things that needed to get done) so I wanted to share my monthly goals for this month.
I’ve got a couple of reasons for sharing this with people. I think sharing this list will help keep me [...] more »
