29 November 2002

Improving DSC Images While Keeping IrTranP Garringreen Hotspot -- Losing electrical power has to be one of the worst things that can happen under pressure. I ran out of battery power for my Fuji DSC and as the pictures of the IIA Net Visionary Award show, my little Concord EyeQ isn't the best. I need to look for better optics on cameras that accommodate IrTranP. Casio QV-770 Casio QV-2000UX Casio QV-3000UX JVC GC-S1 Sharp VE-LC2 Sony DSC-F3   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Award Winners 2002 DUBLIN -- Mary Hanafin (on right, holding flowers) congratulated denise cox on winning the 2002 Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Award. Other winners included Adrian Weckler from The Sunday Business Post (Journalism), Frank Daly from the Revenue Commissioners (eGovernment), David Long from IrelandOffline (Social Contribution) and Cliodhna McGuirk from Saadian Technologies (Innovation). Now it's off to send this little tidbit to the Irish Open Mailing List and to text the details so that they're put into the proper boards.ie forums. Moblogged from Nokia 9210i Communicator using Vodafone HSD. Picture by Bernie Goldbach using Concord EyeQ IrTranP digital still camera. Click to view picture shot outside with Fuji S602Z. x: 137   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Managing Convergent Communications DUBLIN -- My 9210i can email while sending and receiving SMS text messages. While I moblogging the opening remarks of the 2002 Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Awards, Tom Murphy sent me a text that asked who won. Back in a minute. Moblogged by Nokia 9210i Communicator using Vodafone HSD.   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Mary Hanafin Credits Net Visionaries DUBLIN -- Mary Hanafin, chief government whip, addressed the 2002 Net Visionary Awards, noting the speed at which technology moves today. "Vision recognised today is being implemented tomorrow. Your idea of today can become the policy of tomorrow." At tabletop level, a few people muttered how IrelandOffLine's ideas of reduced access fees yesterday should become the pricing levels today. That would be the most welcome address that the government could make to this assembled audience. Moblogged from Nokia 9210i Communicator over Vodafone HSD.   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Net Visionary Journalism DUBLIN -- If you're serious about understanding Internet issues in Ireland, you will seek out and read articles by David d'Arcy (Computerscope), Jamie Smyth (The Irish Times) and Adrian Weckler (The Sunday Business Post). All three are short-listed for the Net Visionary Journalism Award. Nominees in other categories with track records for mainstream publishing include denise cox, Sheila McDonald and Ruairi Roddy. Every one of these nominees have improved the state of play on the Irish Internet today. Moblogged by Nokia 9210i over Vodafone HSD.   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Long and Daly Tipped to Win Net Visionary Awards DUBLIN -- One of the marks of a well-conducted event is that it starts on time, just like now with the IIA Net Visionary Awards. It's noon and opening remarks have begun. I didn't expect a free bar, but that helps networking and the noontime drinks make it easier to conduct exit polls. If my anecdotal evidence is correct, both David Long and Frank Daly will win today. The race for top-ranked award is too close to call. Moblogged with Nokia 9210i Communicator using Radio Web Services.   [Comment on Shoptalk]

2002 Irish Net Visionary Awards DUBLIN -- Looking just beyond the dimly lit reception area for the 2002 Net Visionary Awards (see picture at left), you could find designated seats for more than 800 people. That number pales in comparison to the number of votes cast for the short-listed nominees. Although it's easy to find detractors for any of the awards ceremonies sponsored in Ireland, it's hard to deny that this event represents the most democratic and most transparent acclamation of excellence in the Irish Internet community. Moblogged by IBM TransNote using Nokia D211 over Vodafone HSD. Picture by Bernie Goldbach using Concord EyeQ IrTranP digital still camera.   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Behind Irish eGovernment Services DUBLIN -- Last year, Ireland turned heads in the European Community, based on the government's forward push into electronic information services. P.J. Fitzpatrick (shown at right) is one of the factors behind the success, doing yeoman's work with e-courts. He rattles off how 500 judges are now wired into Lotus Notes and how it's possible for the Register to reflect a judgment within minutes of the court's decision. That's a big leap forward and should ensure a more expeditious and thorough judicial system in Ireland for years to come. Next year, Fitzpatrick hopes that more than 20,000 accounts for wards of the courts will be managed electronically. That may help reduce the level of juvenile deliquency, with positive knock-on effects against the scourge of joyriding in Ireland. Moblogged by IBM TransNote over Nokia D211 Vodafone HSD connection. Picture by Bernie Goldbach's Fuji S600 digital still camera.   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Convergence of BLogChannels, Lists, and Text DUBLIN -- Sitting in the lobby of The Alexander Hotel with Ruairi Roddy, talking about blogging's slow uptake in Ireland. Roddy makes a biting comment about how most bloggers cannot spell -- that's critical because the blogosphere is very text-dependent. You have to use precise text otherwise technologies like BlogChannels will fail to give loosely joined webloggers a metadata way of selecting like-minded perspectives. By tagging blogged comments with the correct elements of information architecture, you can grab onto others who use the same tagging structure. We can make a lot out of this, but the metadata structure is actually rooted in the behaviour of disciplined mailing lists. On those lists, people use relevant subject headings, and they identify when they are about to veer off into the Off-Topic. This happens on the Irish Open Mailing List. Thanks to focused cross-talk, community intelligence quickly rises to the top shortly after a question is raised. That's also been my experience with boards.ie. Behind the scenes, a bunch of coders are working to overcome differences in metadata by building shared taxonomy, such as with XFML maps that relate topics to each other. When the community builds these things out in the open (such as liveTopcis topic rolls), other people start to adopt the same terminology. When that happens, community microcontent becomes exceptionally relevant. Moblogged from IBM TransNote with Nokia D211 and Vodafone HSD. More on BlogChannels and topics [Seb's Open Research and Al Macintyre and Curiouser and curiouser!]   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Well Engaged Discussion on Smart Mobs WELL -- I joined The Well because of the quality of discussions. Somehow I missed this weeklong discussion on Smart Mobs. It's open to general Net readers and the conversation centres on Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs. You cannot get this marvelous, insightful book in Ireland. That's a critical shortfall, because none of the early arrivals for the IIA Net Visionary Awards have the book on their Christmas list. [Irish New Media Cuts and JD's New Media Musings] Moblogged by IBM TransNote using Nokia D211 with Vodafone HSD.   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Awards for 2002 IIA ie -- This is Ireland's most democratic awards programme. Nominations come from the Internet community. Then that same community casts their votes for the winners. The top category, that of IIA Net Visionary, holds several credible personalities. denise cox, E-Search and IrishAnimals.ie Mary Mary Mangan, ireland.com Sheila McDonald, ENN Ruairi Roddy, TCM Damian Ryan, Perfect World Nominated for the IIA Journalist Award: David D'Arcy, ComputerScope Jamie Smyth, The Irish Times Adrian Weckler, Sunday Business Post Nominees for the IIA Innovation Award: John Brady, Am-Beo Cliodhna McGuirk, Saadian Technologies Niall O'Cleirigh, Macalla Net Activists will follow the campaign for the IIA Social Contribution Award whose nominees include Seamus Dooley, Wexford County Manager David Long, IrelandOffline Anne Leahy, Age & Opportunity While Ireland is winning accolades in Brussels for its range of government Internet services, credit should extend to those nominated for the IIA eGovernment Award: Colm Butler, Department of the Taoiseach Frank Daly, Revenue Commissioners PJ Fitzpatrick, ecourts Moblogged by Nokia 9210i using Radio Web Services   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Polemic Musings with Nokia's Moblogging Communicator POLEMIA -- Although Paul Clerkin is likely to consider my commentary akin to polemic, I am taking my Nokia 9210i Commuicator mobile phone and its companion (a Concord EyeQ IrTranP camera) under The Alexander Hotel in Dublin for the 2002 IIA Net Visionary Awards. I will moblog to Underway in Ireland and to Irish New Media Cuts. Both of these blogs run from notebooks always-on to Radio Web Services. This test comes from a Dublin bus, attached to a picture of Tim Kirby. Moblogged by a Nokia 9210i using Radio Web Services. Jeremy Allaire on XML and Web Services. x: 1256   [Comment on Shoptalk]

In Conversation with Damian Ryan DUBLIN -- It's a fortnight away from the day that Lawrence Lessig will announce his licensing scheme for The Creative Commons and Damian Ryan is already considering how to fold this idea into an upcoming Digital Rights Management Conference in Ireland. Ryan holds Ireland's only board seat on the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Lessig earned prominence for arguing the case for copyright in front of the Supreme Court. He previously visited Ireland during a Digital Darklight Festival event, around six months before his arguments with The Supremes. Moblogged with Nokia 9210i using Radio Web Services x: 128   [Comment on Shoptalk]