Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Tuesday, April 27th, 2004
Last Friday saw a one day colloquium in Chicago where students of the Institute of Communications Research at UIUC had an opportunity to meet with students of the Communications Department at UIC. Organised by Sabryna Cornish the motivation came from the increasingly closer links between the two units, with some ...
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2004
I've just received word that my proposal for a reading group in participatory media has been granted support by the IPRH (Illinois program for research in the humanities). Yay! We'll be starting the in the Fall semester, so there's a bit of time left to plan what exactly to do ...
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Sunday, March 28th, 2004
Yet another member of the funferal family of sites, this time a site for the Flirt FM Alumni group, which I set up earlier this year. At present there's not a lot to see, but the site will feature news of developments within the group and the station, and news ...
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Saturday, March 27th, 2004
I've just returned from one of the more enjoyable nights out I've had in some time. Gugaí, the DJ who runs the Drum bar on Mondays and the Warwick nightclub on Thursdays (I'm back in Galway at the moment) had a 'road trip' (under his 'Strange Brew' moniker) to a ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2004
My pointer to the Joyce estate's actions in relation to Bloomsday has been picked up by a lot of other weblogs - which is consistent with my observation that intellectual property is one of the main topics to take advantage of the highly skewed propagation trail in weblogs. Now ...
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Sunday, January 25th, 2004
The press speculation on Michael D Higgins running for president continues. As a Labour member from Galway I've obviously been involved with campaigning for Michael for many years. I think he would be a strong candidate - I know his candidacy would be popular within the Labour Party, and he ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2003
Greetings and Salutations,
We're definitely back into class work. I've got what a colleague rightly called 'a theory laden semester' with philosophy of technology, sociological theory, and (social) history of telecommunications. It seems the reading for class takes the entire week. Of course, the standard advice here is that actually trying ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2003
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Monday, July 28th, 2003
I've just seen the sad news that the Galway street entertainer Johnny Massacre died last week. He managed to make himself a true part of the Galway streetscape, regularly attracting crowds to fill the Shop St/High St/Mainguard St junction.
He was proud of being a fulltime street entertainer - who made ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2003
Greetings and Salutations,
I'm back in the US for about a month now, having enjoyed a relaxing, if all too short, break in Galway (apologies to all those I didn't manage to meet during my visit). A compendium of short items this time:
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