February 10, 2007
Not to be confused with out very own Boot Camp, BarCamp Dublin has been announced for the 21st April 2007 at the Digital Hub
Having spoken at BarCamp SouthEast, I’ll definitely be attending and speaking at this one. Perhaps, I’ll try and convince some of my colleagues too!
If you’re interesting in attending or speaking, there’s more information up on the BarCamp Dublin wiki and the the Bar Camp Dublin Blog
February 9, 2007
One of the most talked about, linked and embedded videos on YouTube this week comes from Professor Michael Wesch, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University.
Under the banner of Digital Ethnography, Professor Wesch breaks down the complexity of what the web is and how it is changing with the advent of web standards, RSS, blogging, streaming video, flickr, mashups, basically everything we think of as “Web 2.0″.
February 2, 2007
ENN.ie have just reported on search.gov.ie‘s use of the Google Search Appliance to power the new government search portal. Our own Lar narrates pretty much the whole article. And journalist Emmet Ryan writes a nice subhead for it:
“The launch of a new search application means you no longer need to be in Mensa to find information on Irish public sector websites.”
February 1, 2007
It was reported today in the Irish media that for the second day running, students have experienced significant difficulties logging on to the CAO website to complete their college applications, the closing date for which is today.