Better Be An Internet Cafe In Amsterdam

I’m heading to Amsterdam on Saturday morning for a short break… only there better be an internet cafe open first thing in the morning on Tuesday. Not risking the laptop and going in search of a WiFi connection….

No doubt the website will come crashing down around the ears of those at Ticketmaster…

Is Adsense Wasted On Irish Blogs?

Is there anyone in the Irish blogosphere who is making a healthy revenue from AdSense? And by healthy revenue I mean at least three figures a month. I know of one such individual who happened to mention his Adsense revenue at the last Bar Camp in Waterford but beyond that, is anyone else happy with their Adsense revenue stream?

Been A Busy Few Days

Jesus its been a busy few days. Started another podcast, first one a little rough but it’ll get there, just have to put the pennies aside to open a radio station at some stage. Auditions underway for the big show in August – I can see it being something of a musical bootcamp, though the musical numbers aren’t massive by any standard. Between script meetings, directors meetings, gigs, a dodgy foot, sleepless nights, lack of energy I’ve got seven posts sitting in draft status. Bah humbug.

Must… press…. publish…..

And someone wants to kill someone through their blog? Sure is one way of telling you’re getting popular…

Pain In The MySpace

Honestly, I’ve been trying to register an account on MySpace for someone for the last hour with an email address, trying varying rotations of their home country, language selection, password and their idiotic captcha (which doesn’t offer plaintext or audio support) and EVERY time I’m left with

We’re sorry. Based on the information you have submitted to us, you are ineligible to register on MySpace.com.

You’d think they were just trying to stop people signing up. Too many members…

Update: over 3 hours since I’ve started, I’ve been able to register. MySpace registration downtime? No alerts within the site itself from what I could see…

Those Spammers Strike Again

Damn them all to hell….

MODERATORS – This is a test from an automated software aimed at posting to “dead” forums only. If this is not an abandoned forum we apologize, simply block this nickname and we’ll not attempt to post again.

This one (above) just popped up on KilkennyMusic.com’s forum. Upgraded to latest version of phpBB and they’re still coming… time to make a few additions to the scripts I guess. Maybe a timer check? I’m only guessing that bots are filling out forms in record time, as well as avoiding the graphic captcha. Anyone been in a similar position?

Between the increase in forum spam as well as a heavily noted increase in blog spam across the board it is getting a little tiring…

At least in this case it wasn’t extreme NSFW links….

Apple TV Has Launched

I’ve always had a desire to go mad on the house technology wise – computer in every room, server in the garage downloading new music and movie clips daily, VOIP phones for the house, an RFID reader in the fridge to read RFID tags instead of barcodes to let me know when to shop (lazy but interesting if I can telnet into my fridge from work to see what was available for dinner…).

BUT!

All of these things cost money and you can’t have everything you want at once. I should be picking up a new TV this coming Friday, finally replacing the broken Sony widescreen thats been in the corner for the bones of the last three years. What I wouldn’t mind getting in addition to it is Apple TV.

Apple TV launched yesterday, pretty much as a set-top box allowing you to send your movies, music, podcasts etc. via wifi to the included 40gb hard drive. Take one teeny-tiny remote control, hook Apple TV up to your own TV and you’ve got a short and sweet entertainment system without the fuss of masses of cables.

You are going to need a widescreen TV and a copy of iTunes would be handy too – Apple TV syncs itself with every iTunes update so as soon as you buy something through iTunes it can be picked up at the tv. The system also works the other way, tell Apple TV to go off and download a particular movie, track or clip from the iTunes store and away you go…

After watching in awe of the clips belting out full screen on John’s iMac yesterday, I think the US$299 price tag is paltry. Of course in typical bloody fashion, a $299 price tag in the US means a €299 pricetag on European soil. Still, looks to be a fantastic investment, particularly for someone who prefers TV from the computer instead of forking out for Sky Digital or another expensive monthly TV service.

How Does Google Rank Your Blog?

Catching up on a little weekend reading (lack of any reasonable internet connection over the past four days) and Steve Rubel makes an interesting post on how Google ranks your blog. Being away for the weekend I had a little time to reflect (but a lot less time to put the reflection into action) on my own blog but this post matches some of my weekend thoughts, the sum of which should generate a change or two around kenmc.com

See Google BlogRank by Steve Rubel and the original post here.

Are You Open For Coffee In Cork This Morning?

Sure, I’m not from Cork but thought I’d give the Cork OpenCoffee morning a wee net-plug anyway, think they’re a pretty good idea. Dublin’s one took off recently with a big bang in Morrisson’s hotel but if you’re in Cork this morning, pop your head into Luigi Malone’s for a crackin’ cup of coffee and a chin-wag with fellow entrepreneurs and business investors.

Kick-off is 10am.

Paul Browne – Pure Genius

Meant to post this one earlier on in the week (sorry Paul), but I got back from Sligo on Monday lunch time to find a nice surprise in the post for me. I’m no Guinness drinker by any stretch of the imagination but never let it be said that Paul B doesn’t stand by his word.

You might remember the FeedBurner madness that went on prior to the Blog Awards, divided into a few rounds the winner of the first round would get a pint courtesy of Paul. While I never got a chance to catch up with Paul at the awards (or loads of other people for that matter) I did get pint in the post, so cheers for that one Paul.

Hopefully next time it will be a cold pint of Heineken from a glass

Spam From The New York Times?

Is someone inside the New York Times trying to reach out to blogs or is there someone sitting at home spamming away, PRETENDING to be from the New York Times? Amongst the new wave of spam mails and comments I’ve been filtering come comments from the New York Times – not only on this blog but Aidan has also noticed it for HelpYourself.ie The comments look legit, there’s no links only one going back to the New York Times homepage.

Reading techscape.tv this morning, it isn’t just here the comments are appearing…

Just on another note… is anyone getting empty comments from non-existant posts via mail asking you to moderate?

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