I had a chat with Paul Noonan of Bell X1 at the 2010 Meteor Music Awards.
He spoke about the future of the Music industry, the band’s changing attitude to piracy now that they own their latest record, and explored some of the meanings behind his lyrics.
Discussion of the mobile device market and the operating systems therein, covering upcoming Android devices with funky screens, Microsoft finally stepping up their Mobile game with Windows Mobile 7, and questions about Flash for the iPhone.
With a clip before every DVD you rent telling you that online piracy is the same as car-jacking online file sharers’ are displayed in a similar light to hardened criminal’s. But how socially and morally wrong is piracy?
We decided to get some musician’s to share their thoughts on music piracy. The resounding response was that piracy help them sell live tickets, which is where their real income is.
Discussion with Michele Neylon of Blacknight about Irish hosting, Google’s DNS offerings, online safety, international domains and privacy.
John Breslin of the SIOC project explains Web 3.0 to us and how it will pave the way for a richer Web experience.
Last week ComReg announced that Eircom withdrew their complaint regarding lowering the Line rental fee charged to third party operators. We spoke with Peter Evan’s, Product Director of BT Ireland about the future of Irish Boradband.
Today, everybody using Twitter, Facebook, or an online Forum is a publisher. As such we need to start paying more attention to what we say online, particularly when talking about others. This January the Irish laws of Libel and Slander were dropped, replaced with a general law of Defamation. This we we spoke about the new law.
We were joined by Darragh Doyle or boards.ie and Marie McGonagle, Lecturer in Media Law at NUIG. Marie was also involved in the reformation of Irish Defamation law.
Marie McGonagle is a Law Lecturer at NUI Galway, specialising in Media Law. She was involved in the reformation process for the new Defamation Act, 2009.
We spoke with Marie about the new Act in light of online communities and bloggers. We asked if the new law would give the Garda wider search and seizure powers for those found guilty of Blasphemy. We also posed the question, “Is a blog a periodical?”
This week our own Patrick O’Doherty won the Google Award at the BT Young Scientist, catching the eye of the Irish Times.
We discussed his project, We Predict It, a tool to track and predict trends on Twitter. As We Predict It is powered by tweets (and so by [...] Continue Reading.
