I am Paddy

Life Below 600px

Paddy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:53:28 +0000

Some people would have you believe that you aren’t reading this.

Why?

Because it’s not ‘above the fold’.

Make sure and check out this article on my new blogazine as it has a custom layout.

Interview with Matthew Inman, creator of The Oatmeal.

Paddy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:07:06 +0000

The Oatmeal has to be one of the most unique, unusual and hilarious masterpieces on the Internet at the moment. I had the great opportunity to speak with the genius behind it, Matthew Inman. What a nice guy.

Check out the video to find out where Matthew gets his inspiration, what his favourite dinosaur is and his opinion on Deep Impact vs Armageddon.

Some links from the Video:

The Oatmeal
Perry Bible Fellowship
5 Reasons Pigs are more awesome than you
Ten words you need to stop misspelling
The Motherfucking Pterodactyl
How a web design goes straight to hell

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Learn to Fucking Spell

Paddy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:54:19 +0000

Picture a world famous surgeon. Absolutely everybody has heard of this talented individual. She’s performed countless surgeries, saved so many lives. She’s renowned the world over for being a miracle worker. Now imagine she achieved this notable status while constantly making obvious mistakes with the scalpel.

Would that happen?

Make sure and check out this article on my new blogazine as it has a custom layout.

Build

Paddy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:56:05 +0000

Single handedly the best web design conference of 2009…

Seriously, I mean that. Who’d have thought that Belfast would be holding one of the most prestigious and kick ass conferences of the year? Every single aspect of Buildconf last week was absolutely perfect.

Make sure and check out this article on my new blogazine as it has a custom layout.

The new blogazine

Paddy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:54:17 +0000

Taking inspiration from the likes of Dustin Curtis, Jason Santa Maria and Gregory Wood, I am in the process of creating my own ‘blogazine‘. Each post on it will have it’s own custom design, based upon the content.

Here’s a sneak preview of the design so far:

Be the first to find out

I’m working on my first article and finalizing the blogazine’s design at the minute but you can follow me to find out when it launches.

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Spam of the Day: Business or Pleasure?

Paddy — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:53:11 +0000

Hello,

As a member of Dress Up Your Wedding’s leading wedding directory and community, you can come to expect a support team that honestly cares about helping your business reach its goals.

Join us in our effort to grow your business.

Get started on your free listing today by clicking here!

Sincerely,
The Dress Up Your Wedding Team

So, er, are you trying to cater for my wedding or my business? Be clear on your goals spammers!

Hmm, looking a little different, eh?

Paddy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:39:34 +0000

Without much fanfare, a sneaky little redesign appeared at I Am Paddy in the dead of night. In my Live creation process blog posts: Inspiration and Sketching, something quite different was forming, but the blog your looking at now is becoming a thing of the past. I’ve got something far more interesting than a regular blog in the works, but I needed to replace this blog with a simpler design.

Quick and Simple

I did a lot of quick slashing of the content, links and widgets from the old site, which were dragging the site down and making it look so so messy. Simplicity is key for this site and I wanted to keep it at the bare minimum. There’s still a few bugs here and there as I haven’t been over all my old blog posts to see how they’re holding up, but that should be fixed soon.

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Duck-Clown-Fern

Paddy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:38:05 +0000

Would I give up Twitter for this? In a heartbeat :)

That Monday Morning Tweeling

Paddy — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:14:47 +0000

That Monday morning feeling seems to spread like wildfire across Twitter. Tweets tend to have a bit more frustration in them at this time of the week, and I’m no exception.

Here’s a collection of Monday morning tweets in my stream today. Don’t worry, Tuesday is just around the corner, then it’s mid-week, which is practically the weekend. :)

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Trying too hard to tweet

Paddy — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:58:56 +0000

‘Twitter, Twitter, Twitter’. No doubt this is what is being said in most board meetings across the globe at present. With the power of social media becoming more and more evident, we are seeing companies trying their hardest to force services like Twitter and Facebook into the way they conduct business. Often, if not properly thought out, it can have the opposite effect that the company set out to achieve.

One recent case of this is Debenhams, where they have appointed 6 customer assistants to interact with customers, giving them information, helping them out…via Twitter! What? Surely this is one of the times when you want to interact with a real life person, no?

It also opened up the floor for conversations like the following, which made me chuckle.

To be fair to the @Debenhamsretail staff, they saw the funny side, but should every company have a social media strategy or should they be focusing on improving their customer service as a whole?