Web 2.0

Dublin Web Summit, Data Protection, Data Quality, and Brand

The KoolAid is being quaffed in great quantities this week in Dublin. And, having run national and international conferences in the Data Protection and Data Quality fields, I have to respect the achievement of the organisers of the Dublin Web Summit for putting together an impressive event that showcases the level of innovation and thought …

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No child of John Waters will ever marry a… blogger

So there I was, in that horrid hypnogogic state between wakefulness and dreams, when I heard John Waters’ voice booming in my ears like the baritone chimes of God himself (or maybe that was Charlton Heston). “Ahh”, thought I hypnogogically, “this will be one of those pontifical nightmares I get after too much cheese and …

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Science week

Hmmm… perhaps I should have wished for that time machine after all. I keep missing deadlines for the Science Week thing. Today’s question is “What invention has helpd you most with your working life” As my job centres on computing and computery things many people would expect me to say “the computer” or “d’Internet”. But …

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Science Week Ireland Competition

Curses. I missed the deadline for yesterday’s competition over on Mulley.net to win a Wii in National Science week. I will not make the same mistake twice. Today’s question is “What invention would you like to see most in the future?“. Given I missed yesterday’s deadline I was tempted to go for a TARDIS or …

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Things that peeve me on the web

A few things peeve me on the web. One of them is website form validators that do not recognise tlds other than .com, .org or a country tld. These validators seem oblivious to the fact that since 2000 ICANN has been rolling out ‘new’ tlds to take the ‘pressure’ off the .com and .org domains …

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Trademark 2.0 Review

R.Todd Stephens is a very interesting man. I’ve met him and have sat through an incredibly interesting tutorial he gave back in 2006 in London on Enterprise Metadata. What interested me most about his presentation was how he was referring to tools and technologies that I was tinkering with to try and improve communication of …

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