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 Business Post, the Financial Times, the Sunday Times and a loaf of bread from Pat the Baker. We spotted the yellow loaf with a Web 2.0 seal on the side so we had to check out what that was about. As my littlest one stuck her fingers into the bread, I found something in the Sunday Business Post about the Bebo sticker on the bread loaf [1] and I also remembered something from my Google shared feeds so I rewound my FreeNews and found Damien Mulley and Philip Macartney serving up some meaty thoughts about bread on Bebo. For me, a baker using Bebo is like McLuhan using Twitter. There's a message in the medium being used in a handy way and there's a fourth year creative multimedia final exam question being written on this exact issue. That's not an unusual manifestation of my daily web reading. Today's Qik reading of the Irish Sunday papers is also here as a 33 MB 3GP file for those viewing my blog on a mobile phone. And for Neville Hobson, a hat tip for poking me about the domain InsideView.ie not being the same as this blog. That problem is my own making and one I have to repair before my next set of Moo cards arrive. Shownotes for my Qikstream follow below the break.
These pointers lead to the material used in the Qik video recorded in Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland, today.
0. Besides reading real newspapers, I share some aggregated newsfeeds through Google and I share music via Bluetooth over some slick Nokia music phones like the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone that I used for a few days last year.
1. Catherine O'Mahony -- "Pat the Baker to stick with Bebo" in the Media & Marketing section of the Sunday Business Post, 23 November 2008.
2. Niamh Connolly -- "Ministers introduce plan for electric cars" in the News section of the Sunday Business Post, 23 Nov 08. The Irish govt expects to unveil a plan to meet a target of having 10% of the vehicles in Ireland powered by electricity by 2020. Make ours an electric Mini.
3. John Burke -- "Bugging: fear that powers go too far" in the News Focus section of the Sunday Business Post, 23 Nov 08. The chairman of the Irish Criminal Bar Association, Michael O'Higgins SC, said the sky's the limit in terms of the type of case where gardai may deploy in-home surveillance technology. And folks, we're talking pinhole cameras here too.
4. Catherine O'Mahony -- "interactive TV station will target young viewers" in the Media & Marketing section of the Sunday Business Post, 23 Nov 08. The site will be MITV.ie and we hope it incorporates a flow from bloggers and social networks.
5. Martha Kearns -- "Broadband market feeling the squeeze" in the Business Interview section of the Sunday Business Post, 23 Nov 08. Significantly, AOL Broadband expect to continue investing heavily in the Waterford area and that is good news for Tipperary Institute graduates.
6. Adrian Weckler -- "People still have photo privacy rights online" in the YourTech section of the Sunday Business Post, 23 Nov 08. "A lot of people in photos on Bebo and Flickr really don't want to be identified there."
7. ESBIE -- "Project to make students think green" as part of a Commercial Report in the Sunday Business Post, 23 Nov 08. Businesses that would like to participate in the ESBIE Green Schools Energy Project should read the seven-step programme at Green Schools Ireland.
We document some interesting eco-friendly things with our SonyEricsson C905 cameraphone.
8. Fiona O'Brien -- "New displays conserve energy" as part of the Going Green profile in the Sunday Business Post, 23 Nov 08. The Lonovo ThinkVision monitor range brings a new level of energy efficiency to PC displays.
9. Ferdia O'Dowd -- "BMW revises model handsomely" in the Motoring section of the Sunday Business Post, 23 Nov 08. The BMW 3 series drives out of the showroom with astonishing low CO2 emissions.
10. David Lezano -- "Aim Higher and Shoot Like a Pro" in the Tech & Net section of the Sunday Times, 23 Nov 08. The review gives the Sony Alpha 350 five of five start for "maximum image resolution".
11. Sarah Baxter -- "Green Obama's official limo is a gas guzzler" in the Sunday Times, 23 Nov 08. The big black Cadillac has armor plating and concrete pillars all around so it's no wonder it won't get 10 miles to the gallon. Few tanks are economical because they burn energy even when you push them into place.
Obama wears a Blackberry and the Blackberry Storm is out to highly complimentary reviews. Also on offer--the Nokia E71 with email for Microsoft Exchange straight to your pone with no hassles or hidden costs.
12. Liz Lightfoot -- "Top authors say books beat googling" in the News section of the Sunday Observer, 23 Nov 08. The children's writer Alan Gibbons says "we are witnessing a new wave of virtual philistinism."
13. Marcus de Sautoy -- "They've got us all figured out" in the Books section of the Sunday Observer, 23 Nov 08. Every time you do a web search, or use a loyalty card, one of the numerati does the maths on you. Most of us have no idea how much of our lives are tracked. If we did, we would probably be horrified.
14. John-Paul Flintoff -- "How low can you go?" in an Energy Report with The Sunday Times Magazine, 23 Nov 08. The typical Bangladeshi uses just 300W of energy per year. Across Europe, it's 5400W. We used 5280W in our home last year. In the US, the average home burns through 11,400W annually. As a rate of consumption, 2000W would keep a two-bar electric fire running constantly or 20 ungreen incandescent light bulbs for an entire year in a home. Knowing these facts, we're probably going to be unable to adopt an iRobot Roomba for our home.
Wayback -- "Irish Sunday News" in October 2008 and in October 2007.