Art, media, opinion and ideas
According to figures given out by Michael McDowell last week in a Parliamentary Question regarding FOI requests, 41% more people were being charged a €15 application fee by the Department of Justice in 2006 than in 2004.
I’ve got a great idea for a book. It’s a diet book. Maybe I’ll call it the F-plan (or is that already taken?) The regime is simplicity itself, and it is absolutely guaranteed to work.
A competition for the most entertaining, most persuasive and most effective political and civic message videos made about Ireland. (UPDATE: See VoteTube. org for much more)There are two categories for entry.
I might be up to something again.
Is loss of Google juice an actionable loss of reputation?This is an odd question, but one I was prompted to think about today. In the normal run of things, I don't think I have a legal, enforceable right to a google listing. I certainly can't think how I'd have a right to sue for a prominent listing.
Damien Blake, a FF County Councillor from Donegal appeared in today's Sunday Times for stating the obvious- that the electronic voting system the government spent €52 million on buying and continues to spend €2000 euro a day storing should never be used.
Dick O'Brien tells us today that staff at Leinster House have been asked to sign a web usage policy banning them from looking at all 'weblogs'. (I can add to this that the Law School in Blackhall Place, while I was there, decided to take more direct action by blocking access to any address with 'blog' in the URL.
My wife received an email today. It was a round robin warning potential patrons of the Dundrum Shopping Centre that their gift token cards might not be all they seem. I usually ignore email round robins, on the grounds that they're rarely accurate.
My challenge to limiting job opportunities to people with a set number of years' service (about which more here) has bubbled up in an unexpected place.
My talk on Defamation for online publishers is now available from the Tipperary Institute's Podcasting. ie site. Some speaker's observations-Bernie and Co have credited me with a professional qualification I haven't fully achieved.
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