Inside View

Remembering the efficiency of e-mail

GROOVE -- At least five of my regular news sources are writing about the death of e-mail, during the same week that I required Media Studies students to use e-mail when submitting an assignment to me. These student submissions suggested...

Is IRMA listening

KILKENNY -- I spend good money on recorded music and it irks me when someone tells me how I should care for that music. Ever since my first transistor radio, I carried my music with me. I continue that practise today. People chide me for...

Inside Pictures

I LET MY PICTURES do the talking to Flickr but not just because they capture an image of a place. When my mobile phone pictures upstream from my mobile phone, metadata embeds itself in the photostream as well. So if I'm in a pub, snap a ...

Off to Get Person of the Year

OVER TO CANTERBURY (cameraphone image at left) to get my "Person of the Year Award" from Time magazine. The award is very straightforward--you buy the current issue of Time magazine and you discover the award on the cover. You don't actu...

Empowered by postcodes

GUARDIAN -- In SocietyGuardian, Irene Lucas in the borough of South Tyneside has tracked items of civic pride by documenting their postcodes. In The Irish Times, letters to the editor bemoan the implementation of Irish postcodes. In one ...

Global Mobile Vision

RUNNING WITH BULLS -- One of the most distressing events that can occur when working for an IT company is a personal search. This time-honoured tactic is occasionally imposed when employers terminate employment. If the termination comes ...

Irish Schools Broadband Initiative

KILKENNY -- Noel Dempsey, the Minister for Education and Science, maneuvered around several road works on the streets of Kilkenny on last night on his way to a two-hour community meeting. Minister Dempsey brought a few ideas to the Kilke...

Lidl in Kilkenny

KILKENNY -- During the last two years as a home owner in Kilkenny, I have listened to local merchants moan about the damaging effects of low-cost stores in the city. Those moaners help keep Lidl, the German retail giant, outside of the c...

Google Map Hacks

OREILLY -- The Where 2.0 Conference includes announcements of several clever Google map hacks, many already tagged as del.icio.us/tag/maps. Here are a few: