Paul Walch of Segala, asks ‘Do we want a code for blogs?’
This question has arisen due to the Kathy Sierra controversy, the case of the online harassment of an O’Reily writer by an anonymous group of commenters, at a blog created specifically for uncensored criticism. Very quickly the ‘blogosphere’ divided into two camps, those who repudiated the hate speech directed at Sierra, but considered it a cost of the freedom of speech that blogging affords. And those, like tech writer and Web2.0 pioneer Tim O’Reilly, who believed a response was …

Just back from Barcamp Ireland 3. What a day, so packed I couldn’t possibly get to half the talks (which ran concurrently), but I managed three lectures and the panel discussion. The event was held in the beautiful Digital Hub, off Thomas St in Dublin. The building is fantastic, with bare brick walls and natural lighting throughout, and would make a fantastic billionaires studio apartment.
I’ve posted some wikified notes. I grabbed several mini interviews, on TFM‘s sweet but pricey Roland wav recorder (check out the uber cheesy website), not enough …

Many thanks to John Breslin for organising Irelands first Webcamp, last Wednesday 7th March. The afternoon was an enlightening look into the development, search, analysis and productive uses of social networks.
I’ve wiki’d some notes on event. Ina O’ Murchu of DERI should be posting videos of the talks in due course.
Particularly interesting was the response of designated Bebo’s spokesperson, Mark Tarbatt of webvertising firm Generator, to my questions about potential Bebo censorship. The impression Mark (whose firm seem solely responsible for selling branding on Bebo, at least in Ireland) gave …

Francis McGillicuddy and I are planning a trip to the US on the 6th of September – We’ve set up a Wiki for our trip, as well as a yahoo maps route plan (updated).
It’s a pretty ambitious trip, taking in LA, San Francisco, Yosemite and Death Valley National Parks, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon and ultimately New York. Any advice from anyone whose taken a similar trip would be appreciated! We’ll be in the states from 6th of September till the 1st of October, if you’re on our route, let …

CoComment, the new service which provides a unified place to collect a feed of your blog comments through a bookmarklet which ‘co-comments’ your conversations, have finally added retrospective commenting. This is perfect for users like me who don’t have a home terminal, and frequently can’t install bookmarklets. The feature allows users to go back and retrospectively tag comments they could catch at the time of posting, and will hopefully make it a lot easier, and more worthwhile, to comment on blog postings from now on.