As some of you may know a lot of Irish IT professionals, including myself, received a spam from Monster earlier this week. Anyone who reads me on a regular basis would know that I am probably one of the last people you would want to spam. In any case the story grew legs yesterday, as I received legal threats from the Monster employee, as I had published his email. It is … [Read more...] about Monster Says Sorry For Spamming
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How Not To Update a website – Golden Spiders
Pete spotted an interesting issue with the Golden Spiders site this morningIt looks like whoever designed the site uploaded the site's template and replaced the content ....Their frontpage looks a bit odd at the moment, as does the claim: Due to huge demand, nominations have been extended until 5th October at 4.30pm.So they're playing shift the goalposts again this year?Let's … [Read more...] about How Not To Update a website – Golden Spiders
Net Visionary 2007 – voting now open
Voting is now open on the Irish Internet Association's Net Visionary awards 2007.I've been nominated under the Internet Entrepreneur and Online Trader categories.You'll also see quite a few other familiar names on the list - which is great.The one thing I don't understand - and hopefully someone will be able to clarify it - is how some of last year's winners got nominated for … [Read more...] about Net Visionary 2007 – voting now open
IEDR Relaxing Personal Name Policy At Last
The IE domain registry will finally be allowing individuals to register their own names come end of October Full details here.Other mentions:MulleyBlacknight blogIrish webmaster forum … [Read more...] about IEDR Relaxing Personal Name Policy At Last
The Future of Irish Blog Aggregators and services
What's going to happen with Irish blog aggregators and services?IrishBlogs.info, which I run, is busy enough, but is a resource hog. IrishBlogs.ie has been revamped, but any comments I've seen about it have been far from complimentary.PlanetoftheBlogs became planet.journals.ie and seems to have died offIs there a future for these sites / services or is everyone simply using … [Read more...] about The Future of Irish Blog Aggregators and services