Red Links 26/03/09

Heard Twenty’s Ort Show review those moobilicous Cowen paintings? How the Air Force responds to blogs in flowchartism. As David touches down in Iceland, he questions the vacuum of action in Ireland. There’s nothing elitist about him… Are there any spaces you can think of that have ad-hoc promise? Unanswered questions on advertising answered. The [...]

Cowen, the dangers of Picturegate and how like a Hydra, the public responded

And lo the public spoke on Picturegate and it trended on Twitter like a mofo… The biggest lesson that RTÉ and Fianna Fáil have learned throughout this whole debacle, is that nothing is immutable on the web. Suzy traced the backtracking of RTÉ’s editorial voice on its website. Damien recorded and published the ‘missing’ report. [...]

It’s all a matter of disrespect – RTE apologises to Brian Cowen for Picturegate

These words keep coming to mind.. What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? Had you come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And that by chance if an honest man such as yourself should make enemies, then they would [...]

Brian Cowen – The Nakedness RTE were ashamed of

So a video of the news report on the naked paintings of Brian Cowen went missing off the RTE site. Damien helped preserve it in our national interest. Update! Is that PictureGate, we see? Suzy is watching the edits to the RTE.ie news article on the paintings. Interesting changes. Interesting bind the editors are in. [...]

Red Links 24/03/09

Dougal, do not press the red button. Via Suzy. Cedar’s WorldbyStorm dissects The Ideas Campaign. Three Sky salesbots in an evening? Redmum is Job. How is the tech divide so deep and far? BT is rolling out superfast Fiber promising speeds of 40-60Mbps in Belfast. You can now preview Youtube videos right from your Gmail [...]

Stop procrastinating, see your doctor

A while ago, I blogged how people should express their disgust on the Government’s yellow-bellied backdown on the cervical cancer vaccine scheme for girls. In the meantime, search engines have brought people here on searches like “I think I have cervical cancer”, “symptoms of cervical cancer” and “how long will I live with cervical cancer”. [...]

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