Some thoughts on #tweetgate or They Shoot Tweets, Don’t They?

Twitter. Twitter. Twitter. Damn you, you old media folks. Such a rucus across yesterday evening’s political wonk radio and telly coverage. Ho, you made me spill my glass of milk! Panels on last night’s Radio 1′s Late Debate and TV3′s Later with Ivan Yates attempted to pick apart the BAI’s decision to uphold Sean Gallagher’s [...]

BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2012

If you’re at a loose end this coming weekend, go along to the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition at the RDS this week. You’ll enjoy it. Yes, really. I’ve been to the show a couple of times over the years. There were projects on weather, studies on crops, sexuality and society, web applications, teeny [...]

On Steve Jobs

Like Dirac, he knew that form and function come from the same place.

A hymn to making

Caterina wrote a really thoughful piece on making things. If there’s just one post you’ll read this week. Read it. You know sometimes how the word “make” has been claimed along with “game” and mangled into something that one feels dirty reading. Well, they shouldn’t be. Caterina’s post has been swimming in my mind for few [...]

On Yahoo’s 11th Hour

The Yahoo implosion is continuing at an alarming pace since Bartz was canned last night. What’s sad is that for many people, is that Yahoo was their first port of call on this long and interesting path to where we are now on the web. It’s directory was once a touchstone for a generation of [...]

Garret FitzGerald, Rest in Peace

Very sad to hear of the passing of Garret FitzGerald. Many words have been written and too many will be written. Suffice it to say that he was an example of how little intellectualism tempered by civic duty there is in politics. If anything, perhaps we should demand a little more intellectualism from our representatives, [...]

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