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Entries for February, 2009

Irish Blog Awards 2009 Twitter Clouds

For all those people who made it to the Irish Blog Awards in Cork this weekend here’s a twoud (twitter cloud) analysis of the hashtag #iba09.
It was a fantastic night and it was great to see and meet people in the flesh. A massive thanks to Damien Mulley and his band of helpers for putting [...]

Late Late Show Twoud – 2009-02-20

Here’s the twoud of the Late Late Show this evening on RTE for the twitter tweets of those who used the #latelate hashtag.
Click on the individual twoud images to see the larger versions.

Twitter in Plain English

Here’s a little video to explain twitter in a way that doesn’t uses the sentence, “you know facebook status updates, right…”

Dragons Den Ireland twitter analysis – Week 1

This evening saw the first episode of the Irish version of Dragons Den on RTE. Like the Irish rugby games against France and Italy I’ve again created a play-by-play analysis of the reaction to the show live as people tweeted on twitter using the hashtag #ddire. People using twitter all used that hash tag to [...]

I want a glass pool table!

Along with a wine cellar under my kitchen I’ve come across the latest thing I want for my house (well, an extension first to fit them all) — a glass pool table.
Check it out from the guys at Nottage Design.

“The G-1™ is like no other pool table.

It’s a fusion of modern styling and new technology; [...]

The size of the universe

Feeling small today? Sorry… don’t think this is going to help!
It is pretty cool though!

Italy vs Ireland rugby match twitter analysis

Following on from the popular Ireland versus France twoud (twitter cloud) analysis, this weekend saw the Italy versus Ireland RBS 6 nations rugby game in Rome. The hash tag used this time on twitter to mark everyone’s tweets about the match was #ireita.
This time round, I’m just going with 10 minute segments of the match [...]

The History of the Internet

I’ve come across plenty of descriptions of how the Internet originated and evolved over the years but I really love this one.
If you are to spend 8 minutes of your time today, then why not spend it finding out how the series of tubes works!

Ireland vs France rugby match twitter analysis

During the Ireland versus France RBS 6 nations rugby game a hash tag was used on twitter to mark everyone’s tweets about the match. The tag used was #merde (don’t blame me for that one..).
I did a bit of analysis on all the tweets, removed the hash tag and the @usernames and split the tweets [...]

Argon Laser Putter

Possibly not practical (or even allowed!) on an actual golf course, the Argon Laser Putter is a cool toy.

It’s mainly a training tool and looks like it only would work on flat surfaces but I still love the concept.
Now if we could only (a) roof the country and (b) install floodlights on said roof, then [...]