Coillte: Trees and stuff
That's odd, I thought to myself. Why would Coillte be paying money for ads on the front page of the Irish Times website? Don't they just plant trees, wait a decade, and then chop them down?Shows how much I know. OK, Coillte.
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RTE’s “Commercially Sensitive” data on the Irish online news market
Dear Mr McGarr Please find attached the remaining withheld records that refer to your request made under Freedom of Information legislation for records relating to the offer by RTE to make available news inserts for INN [sic] websites. This document was generated within RTE.
Stuck In A Moment We Can’t Get Out Of
And so, it begins. The annual exercise in counting our national blessings, looking ourselves up and down, and concluding that Ireland, all things considered, isn’t a bad old place. Except, it’s not beginning, because it never really stopped.
SOPA Ireland: Irish State is dancing to record labels’ tune
State enters Appearance on 17th January 2012, originally uploaded by Editor_Tupp. One of the more perplexing questions arising from Sean Sherlock's efforts to ram a law he, by now, knows to be bad into force is why he hasn't just taken the time to get things right. The screen shot above gives the answer.
Noises Off
Contrary to appearances, I have been plugging away at a couple of different things this month. Primarily, I have been involved in the campaign to stop the government bringing in a Statutory Instrument which would allow copyright holders (ie record labels) to block access to bits of the internet to Irish users. See the Campaign site http://www.
Template Complaint Letter to Data Protection Commissioner about CityDeal.ie (Groupon)
Dear Sir,I write further to the failure of Groupon-CityDeal (Ireland) Limited having their registered office at The Black Church, Mary Street, Dublin 7 to remove me from their electronic database following repeated requests. I have twice clicked the link at the bottom of Citydeals emails asking to be unsubscribed from their mailing list.
National Digital Research Centre: Making Investments or “Investments”?
It's taken me a while, but I wanted to give my thoughts on the NDRC's response to my previous post regarding the level of Return on Investment the state seemed to be getting on its investments with public money made though the agency. I'll quote most of the NDRC's response and then reply to each bit. Like one of those ancient Greek discussions but without all the wine.
2011: The Year in Mischief
Ireland is a staggeringly conservative and conformist society. Conventional wisdom riddles every conversation be it private or broadcast, in print or in the home. Consequently, the impulse to cause mischief should be welcomed as a healthy corrective to stagnation and the denial of reality.
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