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I was chatting with a blogger earlier today who was having issues with comment spam. I guess anyone who runs a blog for a while will run into the issue of comment spam and unfortunately there is no perfect solution unless you resort to using captcha on your comments. So what does work? Bad Behavior (sic) is pretty effective at stopping the junk before it hits your comment … [Read more...] about Blog Comment Spam – Again

Original and catchy marketing ideas always grab my attention. The latest one to do so is that of Marketing Pilgrim where they are giving away an iPod to an RSS subscriber It's a really nice idea for boosting their readerships stats … [Read more...] about Subscribe to RSS and win an ipod!

Coca Cola are a huge company. They have an equally huge advertising budget (think of any of their Christmas ads and you'll see what I'm talking about) However they also seem to have a bit of common sense and pragmatism in their marketing department. Over the Christmas period they are going to be giving designated drivers plenty of free non-alcholic drinks: f you are the … [Read more...] about Practical Approach to Drink Driving – Coca Cola Ireland

I'm heading to Domain Fest in LA at the end of January 2007. At this juncture the organisers haven't announced the lineup, but I don't really mind. As far as I am concerned it's a damned good excuse to take a holiday :) I've booked my flights - my passport is valid, so now all I need to do is reserve a hotel room. I'm not 100% sure what I'll be doing over there, though I'm sure … [Read more...] about Domain Fest – LA 2007

Tom mentioned having a dinner the night before the IT@Cork conference next week in Luigi Malone's. It looks like there should be a good crowd going :) If anyone else who is staying in the Rochestown Park Hotel that night is going please let me know so that we can share a taxi (I really don't want to have to drink Coke all night again!). … [Read more...] about It@Cork Pre-conference / Bloggers Dinner Cork