Inside View

Updating ORCID

I HAVE HUNDREDS of newspaper clippings and Moleskine journals that must be folded into my ORCID profile. So I am using up to an hour a day culling old records and inserting materials into my online researcher profile. https://orcid....

Things my students have learned from social networks

WHILE TEACHING third level college students how to effectively carve out their online social profiles, I learn about those social spaces by listening to feedback from those students. I've used a Slideshare deck to summarise where the stu...

Making LinkedIn Work at Third Level

Photo of @topgold's LinkedIn on Lumia ONE OF THE most valuable experiences we can give to a third level student is the ability to seek and find career information online. We contribute to that initiative when our creative multimedia stu...

Best Invention of 2007

THE INVENTION OF 2007 most likely to help people is MammaPrint, a genetic print of a cancerous tumour. By getting a genomic profile, specialists can better determine the kind of spread most likely from the cancer. The 70-gene screen,...

LinkedIn Activity That Validates Campaigns

Bernie Goldbach in LIT-Clomel | Screenshot from LinkedIn screen I CAN TELL WHEN one of our activities gets real traction by looking at search results on LinkedIn. I scraped one of my telltale screens.

Twitter Mosaic: Recommended

ONE OF THE MOST clever pieces of software I have seen running across the internet is Twitter Mosaic, a product of Walter @walter Higgins from Sxoop Technologies. Walter's code analyses a Twitter user's profile, extracts the small avatars...

Guinness Wins Top Spot

AMAZON UNSPUN, half-baked and newly-launched, is a community-based ranking system for lists. Guinness is ranked as the best beer in the world. Other winners: Dumbest Celebrity is Paris Hilton. Best Pickup Line is yours to see. Irel...

Stupid Driving in Ireland 05C24384

VISITORS TO IRELAND should read about stupid driving in Ireland, such as that demonstrated by the white van registered as 05C24384 around 2200 on 6 May 2006. My Nokia N70--used by a passenger--caught its profile but did not register the ...

High Speed Info Management

SOON AFTER LEAVING TechCrunch, Marshall Kirkpatrick offered ways to accelerate your handling of information through clever and concurrent newsfeed management. Like many who write knowledgeably, he consumes far more information than he cr...

Yahoo Loves MyBlogLog

AS READERS OF our podcast channel have noticed, MyBlogLog gives a thumbnail picture of many listeners who stumble upon irish podcasters. We will put that code into the gutter of this blog later this week. I can see people coming into pod...