Well, actually, it seems like they won't be able to. According to a snippet on breakingnews.ie the Irish government may have been thinking of enforcing the wearing of reflective clothing. That plan seems to have come apart: The introduction of mandatory reflective clothing for pedestrians would be impossible to enforce, it was claimed tonight. Full story … [Read more...] about Government forces dresscode
Heanet Upgrades
Colm MacCárthaigh posted details of the latest upgrade to the Heanet FTP server earlier today. If you are interested in high-spec servers then this may interest you: ftp.heanet.ie now comprises over 12 Terabytes of storage, 32 Gigabytes of RAM and a new 136 Gigabyte RAID-0 caching layer for popular content. We hope that this level of storage will unperin an effective service, … [Read more...] about Heanet Upgrades
Blog Visitors spend more?
Statistics can be a funny thing. Depending on how you interpret them you can use or abuse them to either make a point or disprove an argument. When the statistics contain information on spending trends then you can be sure that marketing types' ears will prick up: "He said money?" A new survey published by ComScore will probably get its fair share of attention from the media … [Read more...] about Blog Visitors spend more?
Increasing Your Click rate? Don’t fall foul of Google
In recent weeks there has been a lot of excitement among Adsense publishers who had discovered that placing images above their adsense ads was increasing clickthroughs. From Google's point of view more clicks should equal more revenue, however it seems that Google is not entirely happy about this. If the images are placed in such a way as to give the impression that they are … [Read more...] about Increasing Your Click rate? Don’t fall foul of Google
Maximising Adsense – no more PSAs
Have you seen the PSAs that Google push out when there are no relevant ads? If Google cannot match ads to your site's content you end up displaying non-paying Public Service Ads. Eric Giguere points out a new service that is designed specifically to fill those gaps: AlternateURL.com which introduces its benefits as: Most online ad programs, including Google, will sometimes show … [Read more...] about Maximising Adsense – no more PSAs