Red Links 10/05/10

Suzy blogs on RTE and the leader’s debate over here! Mark waxes on the iPad and apps for it out in the wild. Nikola Tesla predicting mobile phones more than 100 years ago in NYT reprinted in Popular Mechanics. Check what information Facebook publishes on you and your friends. While we’re Facebooking, see the trending [...]

There is no New Media and we’re all correspondents

Photo owned by waferboard (cc) No, seriously. There isn’t. The news is as it ever has been and ever was. The tools we use to send and receive news have changed. That’s it. Do you think that when the move from bulletins to newspaper than a thousand gurus calling the news something else? No, industrialisation [...]

Hummus a battlefield

Oh dear, the Mid-East is reduced to war by tahini: War between Lebanon and Israel is being waged, not with guns or butter, but with tahini, as they vie to create the world’s largest hummus dish, observers say. Lebanon set the record Saturday for the creation of the largest plate of hummus. About 300 Lebanese [...]

Election.ie slumbers to awake again

Hello kids, it’s been a little while. The rumours are baseless, I haven’t become a Scientologist or had that full-body upgrade. Yet. I’ve been busy on lots of different projects. Let’s talk about one – election.ie. She’s been on hiatus too. Truth be told, I had a brush with news recently. And for as much [...]

“Humming Chorus” Puccini

From Madame Butterfly.

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