We never thought we’d live to see the day. iPhone porn from former boycott-the-iPhone advocate, Cork’s telecoms entrepreneur supremo Pat Phelan.
The caress of the box. The pauses - oh, the pauses. The tender, delicate removal of each layer of wrapping.
Wow.

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Well there’s execution - seeding the blogosphere. But if after a bit of seeding you’re not getting results, you know your content is the problem. People will call out mediocre bullshit with the slightest provocation.
Cue how it’s supposed to work:

via What’sNext:
Do viral videos actually sell product? Yes if you’re Weezer, whose video of their [...]

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Pat Phelan, Mulley and others hit on an idea they should have started long ago - superefficient office sharing. Arising from a Twitter discussion. Love it. If you’re Cork and interested, read more. Or read more about the existing co-working networks in Dublin or Belfast, here.
They could do well to avoid the “it’s like Silicon [...]

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For those of you following the American elections anywhere near as compulsively as I am - ***RTÉ/TV3/Newstalk PRODUCER/RESEARCHER ALERT*** here’s a website you’ll need to check regularly between now and November: FiveThirtyEight.com. It’s to 2008 what RealClearPolitics was to 2004. And makes the latter by comparison seem sad and amateurish.
Pollster.com has also been invaluable.
FiveThirtyEight [...]

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Somebody really wants to let Justin Green know….So claims my ex-colleague in London, Andrew Smith:
I’m willing to bet that if you spoke to most people working in PR today, the name Avinash Kaushik would mean nothing to them. Even amongst the PR 2.0 digeratti, I suspect he is largely unknown. At best they might be [...]

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This case is one particularly horrific example of why Facebook et al have the right idea. No more pseudonyms. You should be as accountable for what you do online as you are standing in front of someone.
A federal indictment accuses Lori Drew, 49, of O’Fallon, Missouri, of using the social networking Web site MySpace.com [...]

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Bitter, much?
The Washington Post columnist Marie Cocco shares the aftertaste some feminists (though not, apparently, Naral) are feeling about Hillary Clinton’s all-but-failed presidential bid (John Edwards turned up at the end of the party to turn out the lights; roundup of effects from the blogger who had the scoop hours early), including this choice tidbit:
I [...]

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So it’s now official - defined as noted in The New York Times, and linked to by Drudge - blogging has fatalities:

“Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart attack. In December, another tech blogger, [...]

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Who says there’s no poetry in Twitter? Their eyes met (over Skype) discussing thoughts about Dreamweaver. Awww. Then he tweeted the question. Awwwww. (h/t Andrew Sullivan)
Or actual twitter poetry. Can it be long before the 140-character tweet an officially accepted form taught in high school English, like a micro-haiku? She tweets poetic quite often. My [...]

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RTÉ Belfast reporter Michael Fisher nabbed a nice exclusive, as he caught up with Samantha Power after she gave a lecture at Queens University, after she split from the Obama campaign. She supposedly resigned, but as we wrote earlier and the NY Observer picked up from us (hi Niall Stanage), Samantha Power seemed pretty clear [...]

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