The Freelance Feed, showcasing a high number of quality freelance reading resources.

Colab.ie, Enabling collaboration by helping people with ideas meet people with skills.

SPF Record Setup for Multiple Mail Servers

Social SEO the Evolution – Fact and Fiction, it’s business as usual crappy links and ok content!

Are Hyperlocals Replacing Traditional Newspapers? sites that don’t have the budget for flashy graphics or searchable databases. Their content comes from observant neighbors.

The future is another country, Social networks and statehood. Facebook is not quite a sovereign state—but it is beginning to look and act like one

RoadRecords is closing down! Sad day, but everything there is 50% off so pop down and help yourselves to some bargains

Gagababy.ie up for the game . “The journey was the best market feasibility study I have ever done. People said: ‘Where did you get that? I would love one’,” she recalls.

iPad hits Irish shops today

‘Army’ of mentors needed for start-ups

Ghost in the Machine, Portraits of musicians made out of recycled cassette tape

It’s Official – Twitter Knows When We Are Happy or Sad!

Photo walk July 24th organised by John Williams.

The Secret of Successful Entrepreneurs

After the Click: What Products Do Your Users Actually Buy? .. Have you ever stopped to think about what products people are actually buying after they click on your ad?

Effective Presentation Skills

Ten Photowalking Tips, some quick tips to help you out, especially if it’s your first photowalk.

SEO Trainee Wanted, looking for a new job and a change in direction? Check out this role.

Fash Mob is on facebook.

CloudCanvas Launches HTML5 Image Creation And Editing Suite

Facebook’s 500 Million Members .. wow!

How to Optimise YouTube Videos – YouTube SEO Presentation

Refresh Dublin Tickets still available

I can see this becoming a big seller!

Invest Ireland 2010 – connecting Angel investors with Ireland’s most promising Entrepreneurial ventures DCU Ryan Academy 28-30 September 2010

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs. It aims at helping new entrepreneurs to acquire relevant skills for managing a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) by spending time in a business in another EU country.

Typekit is the easiest way to use real fonts on the web.

Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music.

Erm Dublin Skank.. say after me “skank to the right, skank to the left!” .. OMG!

Why Co-Working Makes Sense for Small Businesses

091 Labs a Hackerspace in Galway Has A New Home

Conjuring up the people factor, Richard Branson. All of my top five tips for entrepreneurial success rely on getting the most out of your people

E-Books sales top that of  Hardcovers at Amazon.

Check the tone of your emails.. Studies show e-mail messages are interpreted incorrectly 50% of the time.

Five Ways Pixar Makes Better Decisions

Thoughts on Google’s App Inventor

A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Social Media

Looking for a new start? Try a job in PR (Junior PR Executive/s ).

How to Maximize Your Click-Through Rate and Add More Control to Your Landing Pages Using Ad Sitelinks

Crazy Germans .. Germans take cultural party on to motorway. As many as three million people turned up for a giant banquet at picnic tables along 60km (40 miles) of motorway between Duisburg and Dortmund

Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit – Available at BSRemoval.com – feat. Brad Stine:

Google Discontinues the Nexus One Android Phone.

Wordalizer lets you Create Word Clouds in InDesign

37+ Great Ajax, CSS Tab-Based Interfaces

How fast is your Facebook page growing? The Irish Social Media Monitor has been developed as a resource to track the growth of commercial Facebook pages in ireland.

Anyone fancy doing Anglo’s new website? Payment up front, maybe?

Compulsory Driving Lessons : What The Changes Would Mean for Learners.

Street Artist Proposes Through Street Art – Think of how much better watching this is than watching those Diamonds Are Forever/screaming “I LOVE THIS WOMAN” as pigeons fly around commercials. And it’s not even a commercial, it’s real life! Plus, at least it’s not another flash mob.

Graffiti Proposal from PR!MO on Vimeo.

Why it’s not a great idea to copy and paste web content into print. Click Here to see why

Old School Chat Room,  chatting version 1.0. Before the Internet

KW as anchor text a key ranking factor? NOT ANYMORE suggests this SEO case study on top 10 outdoor clothing brands.

This blog post is part of my blogging for 365 days series.

Easy version control for Linux RabbitVCS.

I met the Broderick’s Brothers last week while I was going a bit of freelance work.  I got a chance to sample some of the bars and left the rest in with the lads in the coworking space on Lower Mount Street. As usual, we ended up talking about web stuff and @barrybroderick directed me to their website. When I was poking about, I found this video and it made me laugh

The social media idiot revisited .. “There are still a lot of companies out there that completely miss the point of social media. Worse yet, they are spending paid media dollars and building out “socialized” web and mobile assets while forsaking their core properties.”

This one comes courtesy of Louise .. cute puppy whistle.

This blog post is part of my blogging for 365 days series.

Icon Reference Chart – A comprehensive chart of icon information for various platforms and devices.

Sugru’s magical properties mean it can hack almost anything better .. Hack things and buy some ..

7 Tips for Making the Most of Your Coworking Space.

My web development work finds a new home at Spartix.com. Needs a re-design and a new blog .. I’ve added it my my ever expanding list of things to do.

How they Got To 40,310 Facebook Fans In 4 Days. They started with 3,244 fans. 4 days later, we had 40,310 fans. Wow!

Webinar: The 7 Deadly Sins of Landing Page Design with Tim Ash.

This blog post is part of my blogging for 365 days series.

I’ve neglected my blog oh so much over the years and Ive been trying to think how I might redeem myself. So this idea came into my head today ..

I’ve seen people doing a 365 “photo a day” .. it was all the range last year on Flickr. So I thought id try the same with blog posts. So here we go .. Minimum of one blog post per day for 365 days. It doesn’t have to be quality, it just has to be there!

Lets see how this goes!

The dotconf is on next week, but its all booked up. Get your name down on the waiting list.

So at random today I was on Google and did a search for auld wans after this tweet .. look what came up #1

On Tuesday I popped into Xcake in the Science Gallery. Nice mix of people, but I arrived a bit late. I missed most of the action. It got me thinking about developing iphone apps. Well it actually got me thinking about other platforms.

I’m heading out to Milano for dinner with their 15c offer. Its ace.

As part of the latest round of ad-hoc meet-ups in Dublin (Ireland) .. we decided to run another Blogger-Twitter-Whatever (BTW) meetup.

The plan is to meet in the The Church Bar (Dublin) at 7pm on Thursday 29th July. The church bar is located on Mary street. Mary street is the street that connects Henry Street with Capel street.

The event is free to attend.

We have space for up to 130 people this time round, so it would be great if you could invite some friends to register. more the merrier!  There will be finger food and a special on drinks. Id really appreciate if everyone could give this one a big push!!

Waiting List

If you have registered and can not attend, please let us know as we will be operating a cancellation list.

Register for BTW

List of attendees

Total Attendees: 118

#	Name
Bio
1.	Jason Roe
2.	Liz McGonigal
3.	George Foxe
4.	Neil
5.	Melissa
6.	Leo Fogarty
7.	Catherine
8.	Maxi
9.	Jelly Monster
10.	Greg Fry
11.	Elly Parker
12.	Fergal Byrne
13.	Sharon McGuire
14.	Ken Stanley
15.	Darren Byrne
16.	Ian Huet
17.	Hilary Allen
18.	Eoin Pluincéid
19.	Pauline Sargent
20.	Sean Earley
21.	Brogen
22.	Sharon
23.	Joey Kavanagh
24.	Sinead
25.	Tautas
26.	Dave Davis
27.	Alastair
28.	Sarah Kavanagh
29.	Eamon Collins
30.	Peter
31.	Ellie Doyle
32.	Julie O'Donnell
33.	Sharon Hogan
34.	Sarah O'Farrell
35.	Grannymar
36.	Ciaran - Meetingsbooker.com
37.	Annette Mahon
38.	Dave Kerr
39.	Pete
40.	Billy Waters
41.	Sinead Cochrane
42.	Karolina
43.	Paula Hanley
44.	Aido
45.	Raul
46.	Alan Murphy
47.	Jill McGrath
48.	Louise Connolly
49.	JL Pagano
50.	Shane
51.	Gina Porreco
52.	Denis Vaughan
53.	Michelle Vaughan
54.	Oralgh Marnane
55.	Lorraine Larkin
56.	Tara
57.	Tuesday
58.	Damien Smyth
59.	Joerg Steegmueller
60.	Michael Bradley
61.	TheChrisD
62.	Rafal
63.	Annie
64.	George Pratt
65.	John Henry Donovan
66.	Michael Hinds
67.	Marc Mc
68.	Laura
69.	Victoria Jamison
70.	Melissa Whitty
71.	Ter Fitz
72.	Kathryn
73.	Pauline Ray
74.	adrian smyth
75.	Aoife Kearns
76.	Tits McGee
77.	PamelaP
78.	Allan Myhill
79.	Alan Richardson
80.	Jim Collins
81.	Rosemary Mac Cabe
82.	Eilis Boyle
83.	Eduardo Giansante
84.	Gita Malinovska
85.	Jamie Stanton
86.	Simon Palmer
87.	Sarah Williams
88.	Sinead O'Connor
89.	DJ Spider
90.	Una Coleman
91.	Hong-Phuong CHECKOUMAR
92.	Ana Rakovac
93.	Sophie
94.	Barry
95.	Rónán Mistéil
96.	Edward
97.	Michelle Daly
98.	Stephen Oman
99.	mark
100.	bridget
101.	Carol
102.	Dan Feaheny
103.	Conor McNally
104.	Lorraine
105.	Danilo Prado
106.	Robert Fitzsimons
107.	David Quaid
108.	McAWilliams
109.	David Behan
110.	Ronan Morris
111.	Anne-Marie Flaherty
112.	Angel Luis Gonzalez
113.	Vourneen Taylor
114.	Lee Kutner
115.	Brian Kenny
116.	Bríd Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh
117.	Artur Cistov
118.	Tim Murphy

My first video cast thing.. check it out and give me feedback in the comments or via email hello@jasonroe.me

BTW on the 29th of July

Dublin milkman

Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the greatest SEO of them all?

Bizcamp Galway

Boards Deals

Dave Davis from Redfly @ Google

Lemonade Film

Oxegen iPhone app

My Oxegen schedule for Sunday

Resilient as ever, I decided to jump back on the self employment horse and get stuck in. The last week has been quite intense. I’ve been spreading the word that I’m back and Ive been blown away with the support. It’s like I never left! It blows my mind, how supportive the community is in Ireland. Everyone just seems to look out for one another and pick each other up when we fall. Its a really refreshing!

So whats coming next?

Well I’m back doing freelance web development, SEO and social media engagement.  I’m actively looking for new and exciting projects. Let me know if you have something in mind. Email hello@jasonroe.me or give me a call on +353 (0)1 485 36 49

I’m also planning a BTW meetup for the end of the month. Peter suggested that it could be the one year anniversary. I haven’t been keeping track as I just do them for fun. An anniversary BTW sounds way better anyway Keep an eye out over the next week as ill be posting up the details. I’m trying to sort out the venue at the moment. The date is provisionally Thursday the 29th July.

A few of us are exploring the idea of running an event for freelancers. The idea is to create an event where people can meet up and chat to other freelancers and self employed people. Its always great to make new connections and find new people to collaborate with. Dena has suggested that we show the lemonade movie. “Lemonade is an inspirational film about 16 advertising professionals who lost their jobs and found their calling, encouraging people to listen to that little voice inside their head that asks, “What if?”” Check it out.

We have a lot of work to get done with the IIA. I hope to get a lot more hands on within the organisation over the next few months.

I’m also exploring the feasibility of a new business. Its strange how you start to get inspired by simple ideas like Dublin Milkman. Before you ask, no I’m not getting into milk. Louise (my better half) is being really supportive and is making sure the plan is rock solid. At the moment, shes the the one and only stake holder. That kind of support is worth more than any cash lump sum!

So that’s all for now. Normal service Resumes.

Comments about the video from Anthony McG:

The Apprentice
The first sketch I wrote was based off the Irish version of The Apprentice. I had aspirations to have it filmed on the actual set and have the real Bill involved but we couldn’t get it sorted in time (although we tried). The majority of filming on both The Apprentice and The Death of Blogging was done in one day around Dublin. We actually only committed to filming The Apprentice after talking to comedian Eric Lalor that afternoon.

The shoot involved Jason Roe joining us to play the role of Brian Purcell, Steph tanning it up to play Jackie Lavin and Niamh playing Bill’s secretary. If your wondering why Eric’s suit jacket is so big then you won’t be suprised to hear that it was actually Jason’s. Jen took us through a number of takes filming the opening couch scene and then the boardroom itself to get the footage she needed. It really came together in the edit with Jen using the voiceover, titles and end really well. Quite happy with how it worked out.

You can view the 6 videos here in full on Youtube.

pressgazette.co.uk reports that Johnston Press halts pay wall experiment:

Johnston Press is to drop the paywalls it implemented on a number of its local newspapers from next week, Press Gazette understands

The regional publisher erected barriers on two of its Scottish and four of its English weekly newspaper websites in November as part of a trial to “get an understanding of what the customer dynamic is around paid-for content”.

Also check out Frank Prendergast’s, Paywalls are not the Enemy blog post. Its an interesting read.

NAMA (LIMITED EDITION)

Well, it’s started, NAMA has begun the process of bailing out the banks, the first batch of loans bought at a discount of 47% which leaves us with even less. In honour of this we have a special limited edition NAMA tee of our own at a special discount price, yep you guessed it, a whopping 47% off.

PS: I want one!

This week a number of Irish regional news websites have started charging for content. Chances are that you haven’t already spotted this. I say that this because if you are anything like me, you probably consume media a lot differently than the masses.

Before I start, I want you to know that I was previously in gainful employment with the Irish Independent and worked in the team and on the platform behind these regional web sites. Although its been over a year since I worked there, I have some understand of why they might have decided to charge for content. Before I start to explain the rationale, I want you to know that I think that this move will prove in time to be a huge mistake. Anyone who is in advertising might tell you that this move will more than likely obliterate most of the traffic and advertising revenue on these on-line publications.

Regional newspapers are hugely different to main stream media, in that the content and its target market is quite niche. This causes a whole array of issues when your business model is based on advertising. The fact that regional publishers have such a niche audience means that your advertising volumes / reach falls to a point where its almost counter intuitive for a main stream brand to advertise there.

The problem that regional publishers have is that, trying to get local regional advertisers to advertises on the web is almost impossible. Many regional publishers and the their advertisers don’t understand the whole on-line advertising thing. If they do understand online, they probably realise that the vast majority of people who read regional papers online aren’t in fact in their target market.

If you did some research on this you might find that a large percentage of people who read regional titles online are in fact from outside of the target market / region. Some might speculate that a large percentage of the readers of such a publication are ex pats overseas or people who have migrated to another part of the country. This is mainly because regional papers have quite limited distribution pattern. If you are outside of Fingal for example, chances are you have never seen a physical copy of the Fingal Independent.

With this in mind, the publishing group might have decided to start charging for content. After all, large websites costs money to run! The reason news papers provide free content online is to get eyeballs that can be converted to advertising revenue. If you can’t sell the adverting then its a bit of a no brainier. You have to make money somewhere right?

This is where the argument gets a bit fuzzy.. Traditional media at this point goes back to what it knows best. If you cant make money from advertising, you have to start charging for the content. If you cant charge for content and cant sell advertising you end up something like the herald AM, now known as the Metro Herald .

My view on this is that the above is all fundamentally flawed. Some might say that the reason they are charging for the content and making it as expensive if not more expensive than the offline equivalent is to drive you back to the traditional publication and boost readership. When you factor in that there is a very low distribution cost online, I cant fathom why else they would be charging in this way.

In my mind, charging more for content on-line only makes sense if you are adding some extra value or providing access to something that you cant obtain in the traditional paper. Where they went wrong was they started trying to charge for something that had previously been provided free of charge. That would be OK, if when you paid they stripped out all of the advertising or provided you with something a bit more substantial. Why not bundle a number if offerings together. IE: When you pay monthly, you should get access to all regional publications including access to all digital supplements, the digital edition and a free download of an improved version of their iPhone app. That seems like a better offer / value proposition to me.

I just wish that Irish traditional media would make up there mind. If it doesn’t work. you do have to fix it .. but I feel there was some old school media bods influencing this decision.

My main question to you is.. Would you pay for regional news content and what would inspire you to part with your hard earned cash? Please leave your comments below.

Also check out Independent introduces paywall for regional titles

Quick post to tell you how the gardening course went. Its been almost 5 years since I’ve done anything horticultural. Being honest, gardening has never been high up on my list of interests. I have completed some basic horticultural /science studies but most of what I covered in that time is now a distant memory.

On the morning, we arrived to a freshly baked breakfast of scones, nibbley bits and freshly ground and brewed coffee. Everyone was introduced and we went over what we were going to cover for the day. Then headed straight out to the garden and got stuck in. Peter had a variety of pots, plants and seeds for us to work with. We covered the basics of growing from seeds, watering seedlings, potting and re-potting plants.

As Louise said to me, Peters gardening course could be summed up as “philosophy for gardening & life.”. Darren had a great comment “Peter knows how plants think.”.

Photo of Peter Donegan

The course was a mixture of hands on gardening, great advice and interludes of peter telling us about his gardening career. I was blown away by what peter achieved in his career at a young age.

A summary of what I picked up:

The brand of compost you use doesn’t really matter all that much. I had this idea in my head that there was some kind of difference in quality. At the end of the day its just the growing medium.

Drainage holes for window boxes or pots can be substituted with a variety of other scraps ranging from broken bits of cups, dead plants, polystyrene or whatever you have to hand. The main thing is to make some drainage space under the soil. Be warned that carrots don’t like this too much as they need this space.

When your prune a plant on top you often force root growth, this is useful when you have re-potted a plant.

You don’t need to buy fancy plastic pots, trays to get stuck in. A great example Peter had was an old wheel barrow that had been re-purposed as a semi-portable raised bed for green house. It really gets you thinking about what you can use from around the home or garden.

Photo of Watering Seed Tray

Allotments are a lot of work in terms of maintenance. Water can often be a pain point as you may have to bring your own supply. Peter suggested that people should be made aware of this before they take on an allotment. Some kind of allotment driving license or a mentoring scheme needs to be put in place.

In Summary:

I felt that got a lot out of the course, not alone did I get a ton of useful information but our balcony is full of pots and window boxes. The hands on experience really cant be beaten. I feel like I got more hand on experience in the 5 hours than I did during my two years of class room based horticultural / science studies.

If your interested in getting started in gardening, Id strongly advise you to drop Peter a line and ask him when his next course is.

I had a great St. Patrick’s week/day this year. It was a bit of an odd one as it’s my first year living in the city centre whilst the Paddy’s day festival was on.

I’ve recently moved into an apartment, located on Capel Street with Louise. Before you ask, yes the noise from the street can be a pain sometimes. For anyone who doesn’t know, Capel Street is a small one way street that is located directly at the end of one of our main pedestrianised shopping streets Henry Street. We are just far enough away to avoid most of the hustle and bustle. To be honest, the benefits of being so central really outweigh any of the negative stuff.

Last year I was invited to the grand stand by the guys at Pix.ie. I got some amazing photos but it was a bit of a pain not being able to leave the grand stand without having to walk through the parade. This years Paddy’s day was a bit of an interesting one. I was invited by Eamon Leonard to watch the parade from his office roof top. We had such an amazing view! His office is located in the middle of Dame Street, just a stones throw from Dublin’s City Hall.

To be honest it was a bit bizarre.. We some how managed to get sandwiched between a pack of Greenpeace folk and a few anarchists who liked the idea of waving massive Palestinian flags! They were the types who seemed to think it was wise to stand on a railing in front of a directional mobile phone  antenna. They also seemed to take pleasure in risking life and limb jumping over a set of roof top spikes to get on to the roof of the five story building next door.  The things that people do sometimes boggle the mind!

What was hilarious was when one of the anarchist guys started selling some sort of raffle vouchers in support of Shell to Sea campaign. At this point, Louise started cracking up. For anyone who doesn’t know, Louise is a mechanical engineer who is building a pipeline for a power station in the UK. I’m sure you can see why she wasn’t too impressed. Be warned, don’t bring up the subject of pipelines or pigging a pipe around Louise.

We were also invited by Darragh Doyle (Official Guinness Storehouse Ambassador) to Guinness store house for their festival party. They had the usual diddly dancing, DJs and live music including Rattle & Hum, Jimmy Smyth, The Gravel Walk and Sliotar. There is nothing like a few pints of Guinness, but I couldn’t help noticing that many of the people there looked like they were bored out of their tree! At least that was until Rattle & Hum (Spotify Link), U2 cover band kicked off.

All in all it was a fun day. Check out our photos from this year.

For anyone who doesn’t already know, Peter Donegan is blogger who is obsessed with everything green. I have a lot of time for Peter and his greener events.

I did horticulture in school but always felt like I only had a summary view of the world of horticulture. After a lengthy phone conversation and a number of tweets Peter decided to try his hand at a DIY gardening course. I thought it was a wonderful Idea and signed myself and my other half Louise up straight away.

Peter has one space left available for March 20th. So make sure to drop him a line if your interested.

“Basically: this is for the [wo]man, parent, adult, child who wants to do a bit of green living but not farming. Enough to have summer salads, fresh herbs, maybe even some fruit – at the same time logic enough that you’ll watch footie/ daytime tv and go out rather than hug trees. You’d like a bit of green, you need a place to start but without getting bamboozled – and let it grow from here….”

Peter’s gardening course:

• A one day crash course from 9.30am – 3.30pm
• The first day/ date is Saturday March 20th
• Cost of materials only to be covered set at €60 per person
• You take home what you make on the day
• Lunch will be included
• To take place in Ballyboughal [it's near Swords/ North Dublin ]
• Numbers will be limited to a maximum 8 people only

I have room for three people in my car, if anyone needs a lift from Dublin city center.

Peter Donegan’s  garden group is also planning a boat trip to Ireland’s eye. They are meeting outside The Bloody Stream pub, Howth, Co. Dublin on April 18th, Sunday at 11.30 am. Cost For Boat Trip from Island Ferries is €15 return.  For more details on the boating trip check out Peter’s blog post.

The lives of others was an experimental blog that was started back on March 18th 2008. What made this blog compelling was an anonymous format that provided the ultimate freedom to share or to speak, to mention the unmentionable and to explore feelings and emotion. Almost two years on and the site has now closed its doors to new secrets.

The reaction in comments on the lives of others blog and on twitter has been quite strong. Many were wondering why a blog which was nominated for an Irish blog award is closing its doors. Many have speculated that the such an anonymous medium could actually cause a lot of headaches in terms of moderation. Who knows .. but RIP the lives of others.

However there is some good news. Anothers Life, a website that provides a similar format has come to the rescue. I set up the site with the aim of keeping the this medium alive. The new site has no connection with lives of others, other than the anonymous format that is used.

The site has been available for 24 hours and has already received a number of posts. Pop over to Anothers Life and start sharing your unmentionables! You can also follow Anothers Life on twitter @anotherslife.

As part of the latest round of ad-hoc meet-ups in Dublin (Ireland) .. we decided to run another Blogger-Twitter-Whatever (BTW) meetup.

The plan is to meet in the KOH, Cocktail Lounge (Dublin) at 7pm on Thursday 29th April. KOH is located on the fashionable Millennium Walkway, which is a pedestrianised street running from the river Liffey to the Jervis street Luas stop.

The event is free to attend. We will be asking for donation on the night for St. Francis Hospice who provide specialist palliative care to patients with advanced Cancer and Motor Neurone Disease. Please

We have space for up to 150 people this time round, so it would be great if you could bring some people along with you. more the merrier!  There will be finger food and 2 a special on cocktails. Id really appreciate if everyone could give this one a big push!!

Short URL: http://short.ie/btwapr29

Register for BTW

The event have ended - no more registrations are allowed.

List of attendees

Total Attendees: 55

#	Name
Bio
1.	Jason Roe
2.	David Cochrane
3.	Lorraine Larkin
4.	Peter Donegan
5.	Gary Mullan
6.	Louise
7.	Darren Byrne
8.	bngr
9.	Anthony Mc Guinness
10.	Leslie Gilmour
11.	Dave Davis
12.	Leo Fogarty
13.	Zuzana Szaboova
14.	David Quaid
15.	Eduardo Giansante
16.	Marc McEntegart
17.	vishal vatsa
18.	Amy Pilgrim
19.	Abi Reynolds
20.	Emma Henderson
21.	Enda Madden
22.	Sinéad Keogh
23.	Joerg Steegmueller
24.	Aido
25.	Susana Serradas
26.	Cyril Moloney
27.	Rosemary Mac Cabe
28.	Sarah O farrell
29.	Roger Galligan
30.	Donal Fennell
31.	Elly Parker
32.	Neil Curran
33.	David Kerr
34.	Billy Waters
35.	conor magahy
36.	Dena
37.	Vourneen Taylor
38.	Conor McNally
39.	Simon Palmer
40.	margaret Gallery
41.	Piaras Kelly
42.	Angela Carr
43.	Bernie O\
44.	Carol Sweeney
45.	Ralph Smith
46.	Rachel McKinstry
47.	Eolaí
48.	George Foxe
49.	Johnny Beirne
50.	Claire Boyles
51.	Ter
52.	Jennifer Foxe
53.	Damien Smyth
54.	Rogerkennyphoto
55.	Claire turvey

Weedle

Weedle the new job search thing is due to launch later today. I was at the Weedle preview last night and it looked kind of cool

Basically  Weedle are another social network but are a mixture of a golden pages and a social network.  Think of it as a slicker linkedin where you can quite easily see what individual to use for a task/skill based on your Weedle network.

For example, if everyone I know on Weedle uses the same physiotherapist and I go looking for a physiotherapist, Weedle factor this into the search. Its kind of a smart way to find useful people for useful stuff.

I had a ton of questions about reviews, ratings, weightings of results that the team were more than happy to talk about. The Weedle team seemed to have an answer for nearly everything we through at them!

So pop over to Weedle.com later today and check them out.

The plan is to meet in the Le Cirk, 32 Dame Street from 5pm on Tuesday 16th Feb. We will get food, drinks and well .. whatever! I’d really appreciate if everyone could give this one a big push!!

Short URL: http://short.ie/btwfeb16th

In Sabrina’s words:  “If you can come, wonderful; if you cannot, we’ll raise a glass to Debbie in your name. Our Internet world can be a little fractured so please take a minute and if there’s someone you think might like the information on how and where to pay their respects to Debbie, do let them know the time and place.”

BTW Meetup:
Tuesday, Tuesday 16th February 5 PM onwards
Le Cirk, 32 Dame Street [web]
Buses from Glasnevin: 140 [map]

Please RSVP below.

Funeral Arrangements:
Viewings: Sunday and Monday until 8 PM
Kirwans, 21-23 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3 [map]
Service: Tuesday, 23 March, 2010 at 2 PM
Glasnevin Crematorium Chapel [map]
Burial immediately following.

Donations in lieu of flowers to Aoibhneas Women’s Refuge, Coolock, Dublin 17.  See RIP.ie notice.

We might also do a whip around on the night for Aoibhneas Women’s Refuge (in lieu of flowers).

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Total Attendees: 12

#	Name
Bio
1.	jason roe
2.	Sabrina
3.	Lee Kutner
4.	Brian Kenny
5.	Sinéad Cochrane
6.	Fergal Byrne
7.	Blaithin
8.	Anthony Mc Guinness
9.	Christian
10.	Alastair McDermott
11.	John Lowes
12.	Joe Haugh

I received this email today from my house mate Stephen. We live in Christchurch, quite close to a lot of churches. With all the bell ringing, Stephen gets a bit frustrated ! See his mail below:

From: Stephen Kirk
Date: 2009/11/27
Subject: Bell Ringer vacancies
To: Ringingmaster@cccdub.ie

Good Evening,

After listening to a litany of bell ringing from about 19:15 to 21:00 thus far I decided to do a search on Christchurch and noticed your advertising for bell ringers, now I have some objections to this. I appreciate the fine art of bell ringing as much as the next man and under different circumstances I might even be a fan.

However I live on cook street which happens to have a very high density of churches and monastic buildings surrounding it, in fact if it wasn’t for the methadone clinic and the roving bands of junkies and scumbags I’d definitely rate the general cook street/Christchurch area as at least the third holiest place I’ve ever been.

Now to the crux of the problem, I don’t have much of an objection to the the training and appointment of new bell ringers but to the fact that there going to be doing all that bell ringing in such a close vicinity to my ear drums.

Now you may say “Hey wait just a minute now, how can you object to such fine melodies as ‘dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun’”, and I agree it’s quite catchy, but it’s not the quality of the “music” it’s the duration and time at which it’s played, now the hour or so of bell ringing (practice I’m guessing) on a Friday is quite irritating after a week of work, but it’s the barrage of bells at 9:30 on a Sunday morning that are the reason for my thus far understated rage, because I really really like to sleep, it’s right up there with my love of food and I’m guessing your love of bells.

Now I guess I should try come up with some solutions and not just moan through this whole email,

1. Cover your bells in fabric to dull the noise, you get all the fun of pulling on your bells without anyone hearing.

2. Supply me with some sort of super quadruple glazing windows around my apartment, although the neighbours may get jealous and want some too, I’ll keep it just between us if you decide to fit them though.

3. I could use earplugs but they hurt if you keep them in too long, thought I’d just add that to show I’ve give the matter some thought.

4. Perhaps start competing in tug of war with each other while listening to some prerecorded bells noises, it has all the exertion of bell ringing with the noise of bells and the added fun of healthy competition.

5. Practice during the week, if you love bells enough you’ll make the time to get your hands on them.

6. Perhaps purchase some smaller bells they look like they’d be great fun maybe even a tambourine or a triangle, expand your horizons.

7. Now this is slightly related to point 6, take up a real musical instrument!

I’m sorry if I’ve offended you, you are no doubt a bell enthusiast and the idea of round the clock bell ringing in the convenience of your own home is no doubt right now making you salivate, I’m not saying your sexually perverted or anything, it’s not like your a priest (unless you are, although I think Christchurch is a godless protestant church so you may be a vicar), you just really love bells, pulling them, watching them sway back and forth over and over and maybe evening giving your bells a good rub and shine now and again, but you have to see it from my point of view the downsides of bells far outweigh the benefits in this day and age, you see I’ve got this handy thing called a watch so one of the main original purposes of the bell is quite useless to me as at any time of the day i can look at my watch, phone, computer, TV, cooker etc etera etcetera and see the exact time to the second and in some cases the millisecond if I really need that accuracy; your past time is becoming quite outdated, maybe you should take up some extra praying instead I hear it’s great fun.

Oh and in case you didn’t get the subtle humour throughout this email I’m suggesting that your playing with bells so much because you subconsciously love balls.

PS. If it isn’t the Christchurch bells making all the noises, please disregard this email, and point me towards the person I need to introduce to my Hurley.

Best Regards and a Merry Christmas,
Stephen.

*Photo by diathesis

I’ve managed to get involved with helping to organise another barcamp. We have done barcamps, bizcamps and all that jazz, now its time for Artcamp. The main idea being to help bridge the divide between the artist and technology community. Both artists and technology community have a lot in common and even more learn from each other. Now seems like a great time to start creating,innovating and collaborating in new and exciting ways.

ArtCamp is a user generated unconference for creatives. Calling all creatives from visual arts, film, theatre, design, dance, literature, photography, media, IT, music and technology to a free conference/gathering in Dublin Spring 2010. ArtCamp is an opportunity for all creatives, artists, entrepreneurs and innovators to come together, share experiences, and possibly create new value from  the day. It’ll be a chance to meet up with people who’ve been there, done that and bought the t-shirt – members of the creative community, business community and representatives from the relevant agencies.  Come along to ArtCamp, who knows what new opportunities might present themselves?

People tend to associate *Camps with the Web and the technology start-ups, but our aim is to try and embrace as much of the Irish creative community as possible. We want to see people from all streams – artists, musicians, writers, dancers, actors, administrators, curators, arts workers and technology and media professionals, coders, designers, project managers, finance, operations, HR, legal, delivery specialists, R&D, marketing – and yes, even tech! Ireland Inc. has a wealth of creativity, knowledge and acumen, more than enough to help us out of these troubled times. By attending (and, more importantly, contributing!) you can help make ArtCamp the first “good news story” of 2010.

More details on Artcamp.

Its been nearly a month since my last blog post! God, time flys.  I have been taking part in Movember for the last month. Movemeber encourages men to grown facial hair, with the aim of raising money for action prostate cancer and the Irish  cancer society. Its a great cause and you can make a donation, I already have about €145.

When I was at Sinéad Keogh’s chocolate party, myself and Rick O’Shea got into a conversation about the “growing” trend in beards. I have no doubt that Movember has kicked off this trend and has given men an excuse to let go and take a break from shaving.

This got us thinking about domain names and to my surprise the first domain name beard.ie was available. On a second glance so was beards.ie, talk about luck! Within 48 hours I had the domain registered and a quick blog up. I rounded up volunteers to on Twitter help out with the site. Within an hour of the request I had rag-tag team willing to help out (Dena Walker, Stephen O’Leary, Fearghal O’Nuallain, Robbie Cousins).

The blog and the idea of a man blog has taken legs and it seems its going in a new and exciting direction. Keep an eye out for new new developments. Check out Beard.ie.

As part of the latest round of ad-hoc meet-ups in Dublin (Ireland) .. we decided to run another Blogger-Twitter-Whatever (BTW) meetup. This time in con junction with the guys in Connector.. It seemed like a good idea to pool our resources.

The plan is to meet in the The Purty Kitchen from 7:30pm on Thursday 29th Oct. (The Purty Kitchen is located on east essex street in temple bar. The theme is fancy dress .. Dress up or wear a mad hat! mad hatter party

We will get food, drinks and well .. whatever! It would be great if you could bring friends and work colleagues along more the merrier!  Id really appreciate if everyone could give this one a big push!!

Register Below.. I will send out a reminder RSVP the week before the meet-up.

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Total Attendees: 22

#	Name
Bio
1.	Phil
2.	Marc McEntegart
3.	Sinéad
4.	Leo
5.	conor
6.	Dave Davis
7.	DJ Spider
8.	John Hickey
9.	peter donegan
10.	bngr
11.	Marie Boran
12.	Bríd
13.	Sarah K
14.	Oisin O' Reilly
15.	Julie de B.
16.	Greg Fry
17.	Cyril Pasteau
18.	Joanna Barry
19.	Ellen
20.	@IanQuigley
21.	Rob Cumiskey
22.	Gerard Cunningham

*Photo by nexthttp

Photo by Steve A

As part of the latest round of ad-hoc meet-ups in Dublin (Ireland) .. we decided to run another Blogger-Twitter-Whatever (BTW) meetup.

The plan is to meet in the Kudos Bar at The Clarion hotel (IFSC) from 7pm on Thursday 3rd September. (The Kudos Bar is located in the clarion hotel in the IFSC). We will get food, drinks and well .. whatever! We have space for up to 150 people this time round, so it would be great if you could bring friends and work colleagues along more the merrier!  Id really appreciate if everyone could give this one a big push!!

There will be Finger food and 2 for 1 cocktails on the night.

Register Below.. I will send out a reminder RSVP the week before the meet-up.

The event have ended - no more registrations are allowed.

Total Attendees: 157

#	Name
Bio
1.	Jason Roe
2.	Steph
3.	Amanda Gribbon
4.	Mark Kearns
5.	Jennifer Farley
6.	Greg Fry
7.	Norman Newell
8.	Tommie Lehane
9.	Roseanne
10.	Damien Sheridan
11.	Fred
12.	Niamh Smith
13.	Kate Southall
14.	Siobhan Cully
15.	bridget connaughton
16.	Dav Waldron
17.	Angel Luis Gonzalez
18.	Cormac Moylan
19.	Maryrose Lyons
20.	Matt Finucane
21.	Dave Davis
22.	Fergal Byrne
23.	Michael Conlon
24.	Billy waters
25.	Annemarie
26.	Stewart Curry
27.	Mark Swaine
28.	John Braine
29.	Dena
30.	Ellie Doyle
31.	Lauren Fisher
32.	Sarah O'Farrell
33.	Helen Treacy
34.	Amy
35.	Sam Warren
36.	Darragh
37.	Raul
38.	Amanda Webb
39.	Ciara Feely
40.	Owen
41.	Stephen Boyce
42.	Joanna Barry
43.	Alan Costello
44.	Darren Byrne
45.	Naoise McNally
46.	John Hickey
47.	David Branigan
48.	Gina Porreco
49.	Christian
50.	Emily Barry
51.	Deryck Tormey
52.	Emma Kytzia
53.	Sir Maxi of Cane
54.	The Jelly Monster
55.	Eoin Kennedy
56.	Joe Molloy
57.	Will Knott
58.	Aislinn O'Connell
59.	Charlotte
60.	Conor Lynch
61.	Marcus Mac Innes
62.	Facundo V
63.	Leo Fogarty
64.	Ben McRedmond
65.	Simon Palmer
66.	Gillian Carolan
67.	Eamon Collins
68.	Caelen King
69.	Phil Boyle
70.	Barbara Barry
71.	Sabrina McNamee
72.	Sarah
73.	Frank Bradley
74.	Aidan Mc Carron
75.	Eric Nieudan
76.	Sinéad Mc Donald
77.	Brendan Hughes
78.	Kate_Sheehy
79.	Oisin D Walsh
80.	Fiona Ashe
81.	Phil Smith
82.	Pauline
83.	Helen Shaw
84.	Lorraine Fretwell
85.	Karolina
86.	sharon
87.	Eamon Leonard
88.	mandatory
89.	Marc McEntegart
90.	Adam McCarthy
91.	Gerard Cunningham
92.	Merrill
93.	David Behan
94.	David Maybury
95.	Maire Hanley
96.	Thaedydal
97.	David Brady
98.	Joerg Steegmueller
99.	Máire Byrne
100.	Lorraine Larkin
101.	Ian Quigley
102.	Richard Hearne
103.	Julie de B.
104.	Dan Cunningham
105.	Sinéad
106.	Eoin Pluinceid
107.	Bngr
108.	Claire
109.	Sarah-Louise
110.	Pat Timlin
111.	Kyle Tunney
112.	Ian Cleary
113.	Michael Flanagan
114.	Ciaran (Meetingsbooker.com)
115.	Gary Mullan
116.	Sasha Wilson
117.	Niall Harbison
118.	Charles Hogan
119.	Angela Carr
120.	Niamh Redmond
121.	Keith Nolan
122.	Sarah Kavanagh
123.	David Cochrane
124.	Aidan McLaughlin
125.	Lee Kutner
126.	Brian Kenny
127.	Orla Duncan
128.	Anne-Marie O'Sullivan
129.	Eolaí
130.	Susana
131.	Donal
132.	Kevin Noonan
133.	Iarfhlaith Kelly
134.	vishal vatsa
135.	David Gargan
136.	Rob Cumiskey
137.	Stephen Kenealy
138.	Bharat Sharma
139.	Rory Wallace
140.	Ronan Murphy
141.	Denis Cody
142.	Robbie Cousins
143.	Emilio
144.	Cyril Pasteau
145.	Claire Boyles
146.	Vicki
147.	Dull
148.	Elaina O Neill
149.	una coleman
150.	Siofra Conaty
151.	Daniel Doody
152.	Jamie Stanton
153.	Ciara kerrigan
154.	Charlotte Mulvey
155.	Ross Duggan
156.	Aoife Ni Chionnaith
157.	Marie Boran

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Finger food
2 for 1 cocktails.

I’ve been neglecting my blog for a little while. Like everyone else, the whole micro blogging thing (@jasonroe) is what has been keeping me going. I’m making a commitment here and now to go back “old school” again and resume blogging. You really cant beat a blog in terms of flexibility. There have been so many occasions where I wanted to write more than 140 characters, but the thought of having to go through the motions bored me to death.

This blog, its identity and who I am has changed a lot since I started blogging. Originally I wanted a place to chat about what I do in work, web design and development stuff. Well who would have guessed, but talking about that stuff after a day in the office bored me to tears. Don’t get me wrong, I love what I do but to be honest, I hate talking about work outside of work. I would much prefer to have a good long chat about business than the technical side of what I do.

Now seemed like a better time than any. Those of you who know me personally, will know I have had big changes going on over the last few months. These changes have been personal and work related.  A lot has changed, but hopefully I have gained something from going through the motions! This year has been some ride! With that In mind and a fresh start on the horizon, this blog is going to be changed into a personal blog. Before it was a bit of work and personal, but now anything goes people! In time, Ill set up a work related blog for my Business Spartix Solutions. Keep an eye out for that.

Now I need your help and advice, I need to change the tag line on my blog from “Web Design, Development and SEO Advice” to something a bit more interesting. I’m looking for your suggestions!  Themes include: change, life, events and stuff ill be doing during the net year! LOL so a bit vague.

* Photo by by apesara

About Jason Roe

Jason Roe is an internet consultant specialising in web development, search engine optimisation (SEO) and social media. He has worked in the internet and technology sector for the last six years and has been involved in a number of high profile web development projects such as CRO.ie, Independent.ie and Herald.ie as well as recent social media innovations by Enterprise Ireland.

Jason is a strong advocate of blogging, coworking, and the development of regional events, networking and training opportunities for people in the internet and technology sector. He is active at the grassroots level and is involved in organising BTW (Blogger-Twitter-Whatever) meetups and Bizcamp.ie.

Jason Roe’s aims in running in the 2009 IIA Board election

Jason is a strong advocate of the ‘get out and push’ mentality that the internet community and industry represents. With this in mind, he believes strong leadership and people with innovative new approaches are key to dealing with the challenges IIA members will face during the economic downturn.

In the context of a knowledge economy, Jason believes that the IIA and its members can play a key role in securing the growth of this industry into the future.

Jason’s aim is to get on board with the IIA and facilitate the changes that are required to make this happen.

Issues Jason Roe will address as an IIA board member

If elected, areas that Jason will be paying extra attention to are:

• The encouragement and continued development of regional events, networking and training opportunities for all members.
• The improvement of how IIA members and the benefits of membership of the IIA are  promoted.
• Enhanced communication with enterprise boards, local chambers of commerce and government bodies such as Enterprise Ireland and the IDA.
• Equipping members with the tools and opportunities to achieve international growth and to help them to ‘think outside of the box’ in terms of international exports.
• Leveraging the strengths of other organisations, both domestic and international, to benefit IIA members.
• Creating opportunities for micro sponsorship to facilitate new marketing opportunities for all members, including start-ups.

How to vote

Voting is open to all members of the IIA. Each member company’s voting user can cast 5 votes in the Election. When you log in to vote, you will be presented with each of the candidates’ photographs and 100-word bios. These will be arranged in alphabetical order by surname.

The voting system allows your nominated voting users to vote from 9am on Friday 17th July until 5pm on July 30th.  If you do not know who your Voting User is please log in to view your company profile. If you need any changes made to your voting user you should email board2009@iia.ie. If you have forgotten your IIA password you can reset it.

Use your Vote to select the IIA Board ( http://iia.ie/vote/ )

I would appreciate your vote. Please spread the word about my IIA nomination.

Jason Roe,
www.jason-roe.com

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Comments are closed, feedback can be sent to jason@jason-roe.com. You can also contact me direct via phone on 01 685 44 33.

I’m sure you have probably all heard about this by now.. It seems there was a bit of a burn out going on over at boards.ie yesterday in the bargain alerts forum.

Littlewood Ireland aka Shop Direct Ireland Limited had advertised a “Compaq mini desktop with 21.5in monitor”  for €69.99 on their website. 34 pages later, it seemed like the little wood had all but gone up in flames! It turned out that this “bargain” was actually a pricing error on the part of Shop Direct.

It looks like all of the order have now been canceled. I’m no consumer expert! but id love to know what you think about this.  Is it fair for a companies terms & conditions to allow this kind of thing to happen?

There are some unconfirmed reports that suggest that a number of users received their item by phoning up and switching to express delivery.

I filed a complaint with the national consumer agency. Let see what they have to say. I cant see how €549 turned into €69 .. is this a case of false advertising?

* Photo by millicent_bystander.

As part of the latest round of ad-hoc meet-ups in Dublin (Ireland) .. we decided to run another Blogger-Twitter-Whatever (BTW) meetup.

The plan is to meet up at Howl at the Moon from 6pm on Thursday 11th June. (Howl at the Moon is Located on Lower Mount Street,  just off Merrion square). We will get food, drinks and well .. whatever! We are moving to a new venue as we needed a bit more space!  The guys at Howl at the moon are even giving us free platters of food.

Please pass this on ( http://short.ie/btw-june ) and Invite your Lunatic Badge friends.

Tweet This!

Register Below.. I will send out a reminder RSVP the week before the meet-up.

Total Attendees: 53

#	Name
Bio
1.	Aislinn O\'Connell
2.	Tommy Collison
3.	Darragh
4.	Bohoe
5.	Dena
6.	Claire Boyles
7.	colin
8.	Phil
9.	keith nolan
10.	Jason Roe
11.	Steph
12.	conor lynch
13.	Campbell Scott
14.	Rick
15.	John Hickey
16.	Eoin Kennedy
17.	Darren Byrne
18.	Roseanne Smith
19.	Gillian
20.	Jennifer
21.	Christian
22.	Maxi Cane
23.	Anton Mannering
24.	David McCloskey
25.	James Larkin / Forbairt
26.	Matt Finucane
27.	Raul
28.	Lauren Fisher
29.	Charles Hogan
30.	Kas
31.	The Big Switch (@thebigswitchirl @eoinos @brandire
32.	Emma Kytzia
33.	Emily Barry
34.	Petrina Timoney
35.	Dave Walker
36.	Bob
37.	Naoise McNally
38.	Dave Davis
39.	Niamh Redmond
40.	Cyril Moloney
41.	Lily Collison
42.	Fergal Byrne
43.	Marie Boran
44.	Amy
45.	David Gargan
46.	Alan Costello
47.	Neil
48.	Pete
49.	David Quaid
50.	Gav
51.	Ciara
52.	David Branigan
53.	shaz

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The pitch:

Up until this morning TDs made 249,489 speeches, and asked 160,503 questions which received written responses. On average, TDs are producing 507 speeches and 326 written answers per sitting day.

Sadly you won’t have had access to information like this before, since the Houses of the Oireachtas publishes the Dáil record primarily on an illegible website ridden with elementary display errors.

At KildareStreet.com you can:

• Read a dramatically-more-legible version of the Dáil Record going back to January 2004,
• Search that record using a fabulous search engine which I didn’t
  write – you can restrict searches to speeches or written questions, or
  by speaker, or by date or date range,
• Sign up for email alerts for when a search query you’re interested
  changes, or whenever a TD of your choosing says something or asks a
  question which generated a written reply, and
• Subscribe to RSS feeds for individual TDs or for search queries.

The site will be updated the day after each sitting day shortly after the Oireachtas publishes that day’s first report version in XML. RSS feeds and emails are generated shortly after that.

John notes, that the site still contains bugs.. so be careful about jumping to early conclusions

The Dáil has now really gone web 2.0, with a bang!!

ScribeFire is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser that integrates with your browser to let you easily post to your blog: you can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.

Scribefire Review – Blog Application

Speakers include Facebook – speaking at the largest Internet industry event in Ireland to date – Google, dotMobi and Realex Payments. Id be up for going to Ronan Harris’s (Google) talk on Analytics and Conversion tracking. Colm Long from Facebook is another one to watch out for.

The guys at the IIA have offered my readers a 20% discount for the event. (That includes members and non members). We all love saving a few quid.

To avail of this enter the code “ cong004 ” book by the 17th April (Tomorrow) to avail of the early bird price.

11.40am – Ronan Harris – Online Sales & Operations Director, Google, will examine the role Analytics and Conversion Tracking plays in getting far better results online.

As Director of Online Sales and Operations, Ronan drives Google’s online sales and account management for advertisers across EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa).
Ronan began his career by earning a degree in electronic engineering at University College Dublin, from where he was recruited by Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation to work at their Information Storage Products division in Japan.  He went on to spend 9 years in Japan working in consulting and technology, and returned to Ireland in 2001 to work in private equity before joining Google.

12.20pm – Colm Long – Director of Online Operations, Facebook, will detail how Irish businesses can use Facebook’s platform to connect with new customers and maximize their return on investment in online advertising.

Colm joined Facebook as Director of Online Operations in January 2009, leading online operations and sales at its EMEA headquarters, which has just opened in Dublin.Previously, Colm worked in senior positions at Barclaycard International and French online stockbroker,  Self Trade. A native of Derry, Northern Ireland, Colm earned a bachelor’s degree in Applied Linguistics from University of Brighton.

Meteor don’t pitch this product as supported on Ubuntu / Linux.. but I found a number of blog/forum posts that suggest that the Huawei E180 usb modem used by Meteor works out of the box. The real question was .. once you had the device recognised, what configuration did you need to get it to work?

I offered €50.00 of my hard earned coffers to the person who could tell me how to get  Meteor Broadband to go working (naively) on the Huawei E180 in Ubuntu.

Update .. I got it working!!

I hope this is of help to someone else..

I needed usb_modeswitch to enable the usb modem (see install) ..  then I had to do a modprobe:

sudo /sbin/usb_modeswitch.sh

sudo lsusb

sudo /sbin/modprobe usbserial vendor=0×12d1 product=0×1003

Settings:

Within Network manager, under point to point connections:

Connection Type GPRS/UTMS

The APN (access point name) for meteor is  broadband.mymeteor.ie – no username / password required.

Phone number is *99# (if even required)

My modem port is /dev/ttyUSB0

The strange thing is that the modem would not work until I topped up the phone and ran the installer on a windows PC. I’m not sure if it was the lack of funds or what .. but before I connected to a windows PC it couldn’t even make a connection.

While waiting check out ..

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Contents of usb_modeswitch.sh:

#!/bin/sh

# close these FDs to detach from udev

exec 1<&- 2<&- 5<&- 7<&-

sh -c “sleep 4; /usr/bin/usb_modeswitch” &

exit 0

Id like to say a big thanks to everyone who came to the April BTW in Dublin. We had over 58 people show up!! I hope you all had a great time. Photos via Fergal Byrne are up on pix.ie. We hope to run the Dublin BTW aka Blogger-Twitter-Whatever (BTW) meetup. event every two months.

To mix it up a bit I also wanted to run a Cork event in parallel. Please blog and TWEET THIS on twitter.

The venue is the Boardwalk Bar & Grill, We will be meeting at 6pm sharp. Directions here.

By Lucinda O’Sullivan

What is BTW?

BTW stands for Blogger – Twitter – Whatever .. The first BTW meet-up was held on November 2008. The aim of the meet-up is to open up our “niche web community” to a wider audience. BTW is an informal gather of people who are interested in (but not limited to) bloging, social media and the web. There is no agenda or rules .. people turn up, enjoy themselves and meet new faces.

Ok so this is a bit of an experiment. We had a lot of people from Cork who couldn’t come to BTW Dublin yesterday. I absolutely feckin love Cork, so we decided to bring BTW to them.

So here is the deal. We will be doing a BTW meet-up in cork on Saturday 25th April. The venue is still to be decided. It’s a Saturday instead of a Thursday so that some of the Dublin peoples can come down. No flying Ryanair!!!

I will need a bit of help on the ground down there, so let me know if you are interested in arranging a venue. I have put another order in for badges!!

For the moment if you are interested please register below.

The event have ended - no more registrations are allowed.

Total Attendees: 17

#	Name
Bio
1.	Jason Roe
2.	Tommy Collison
3.	John Henry Donovan
4.	Stephen Spillane
5.	Joe Scanlon
6.	Elaine Rogers
7.	Margaret Jordan
8.	Branedy
9.	Joseph O'Brien
10.	Claire Spillane
11.	Simon Whelband
12.	Ciara Crossan
13.	Jason Kinsella
14.	Ann Donnelly
15.	Jacobo de Vera
16.	Fergus O'Rourke
17.	Julian

*Cork Bonded Warehouses by anaxila