Inside View

Wet Irish Sunday Newspapers

ONE LITTLE SECRET of my life involves my local newsagent who gives me a major price break when I chose to get wet newspapers. And are they wet today! I returned from his cash till with a pile of wet pulp and €10 of unexpected spare chang...

3.5G Qik Take on Tech

ONE REASON I BUY newspapers on Sunday is to follow the crowd noise about technology. I flicked through three Irish broadsheets today, finding no mention of the most talked-about technology from last week. Specifically, no one wrote about...

Sunday News with Irish Bread

THOSE WHO FOLLOW MY meanderings around Qik know that many Sunday mornings include a short walkabout the Rock of Cashel and into a shop where we buy a few Sunday newspapers. [0] Today, we returned home with the Observer, the Sunday Busine...

Sunday News from Ireland

WITH A WINNING Irish rugby team and a weeping Eamon Dunphy on the front page of most broadsheets, many in Ireland believe the recession is well and truly beaten. In a 10-minute Qik video clip [27 MB MP4 file], I run through three Sunday ...

Technocratic Surveillance

IT'S EASY TO FIND discussion online about the legality of public photography and I knew I was being observed by at least two cameras when I snapped a shot above Dublin Airport's departure area (at left). The CCTV cameras that watched me ...

Cross_Links 15 Aug 03

CLONMEL -- I have a mountain to climb before the academic term starts and I am going to invoke my rights of time management to divert more energy into course development, before the pressure comes down on my head. I have three more days ...

The Internet is for everyone

ZDNET -- Part of the reason the digital divide attracts the attention of social policy planners is the belief that it is as critical as electicity. That's the basis of Vint Cerf's underlying philosophy and he's featured in a 30 minute vi...

Indymedia Ripped Offline

POLITECHBOT -- Evidence is beginning to mount that the authorities of at least four countries (Switzerland, Italy, U.K and U.S.A.) are involved in last week's seizure of two of Indymedia's servers that brought down more than 20 of the In...

Advanced System Optimizer

SYSTWEAK -- I have to spend time cleaning up my work space--starting with my 12 GB laptop. It's showing the effects of working with sound and video files because there's often no scratch space on my hard drive when I try to import a proj...