Archive for the ‘Online communication’ Category
Sunday, March 12th, 2006
Ericka Menchen mentioned, at her blog, the UICC conference she was due to present at on Friday. I was presenting there too, and it really was an interesting and fun day.
UICC, now in its third year, is the brainchild of Sabryna Cornish, sometime funferal contributor and a fellow student at ...
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Friday, February 24th, 2006
Over at An tImeall Conn's posts - audio and text - are always interesting. Recently he has been contemplating the issue of blogging solely in Irish (his existing practice) and the pros and cons of that. In one of his most recent posts he gives a mini 'state of the ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Terrorism. Organised crime. File sharing. Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? That's what the music industry seems to think in Europe, where they are lobbying for the proposed data retention directive to beextended to cover all criminal offences, including piracy, and not just "serious" crimes, as the original proposal ...
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Monday, October 31st, 2005
As if the annotated audio idea wasn't enough, today I got pointed towards details of the BBC's programme catalogue - a 7 million line database - which is being prototyped on a Rails framework. Of interest, of course, is that the database was developed and maintained by professional librarians, so ...
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Saturday, October 29th, 2005
Given my critical approach towards digital audio it's easy for people to characterize me as Luddite in tendancy. I'm not sure if it will help to say that I find this technology to be absolutely fascinating.
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Friday, October 21st, 2005
Here in Urbana we're in the process of working to get our new radio station, WRFU, on the air. It's a whole lot of work, but thankfully we've got a good group of people working on it. We're also going to get help from people around the country when we ...
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2005
Shell SignOriginally uploaded by Monasette.It's been very interesting following the story of the Rossport 5 from the US. As I've discussed with others, the conjunction between radical and populist politics that seems to be in play is quite unusual for Ireland.It may be that the Irish language influence ...
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Monday, September 12th, 2005
Various news items in recent days point towards developments at an EU level regarding data retention. This is, of course, an issue prioritized by Blair in the wake of the London bombings, and I've written on several occasions previously regarding the earlier push for an EU directive requiring long periods ...
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
Ireland-GlandoreCoCork-DrombergStoneCircleOriginally uploaded by nznomad.I've just started seriously exploring Flickr in the last few days - I know, I know, so behind the curve on this one - and I've found it fascinating on many levels. So well designed, both in usability and the features available.I'm blogging this from ...
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
I've just finished reading Seizing the Airwaves, which charts the state of free or pirate radio in the United States. The book was published in 1998 so some of it is a little out of date - the LPFM has come on line since then, for instance - but much ...
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