Content summary: Shel’s in Manchester, England; wrap-up of the past week including the FIR Geek Dinner in Windsor; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; how reCAPTCHA fights spam and helps preserve old books and manuscripts; British Library books go digital; […]
Month: October 2007
If I had more than five hours of sleep per night during last week, I’d count myself lucky.
What a week! Exhausting, experiential, exhilarating. From Monday right through to Saturday, it was a week of travel, conversations, presentations, new sights and sounds and discovery.
Shel and Michele Holtz came a-visiting last Monday morning. They stayed with us (well, they slept in the pub hotel across the road) and we played tourists for much of the week.
And what a week, as I mentioned. It resulted in an almost complete absence of blogging here although I managed to keep up twittering fairly well.
The great thing about having friends visiting – especially out-of-country friends – is that you take them places that you rarely go to yourself. When you do, you discover things you never knew.
More on that in a minute.
During my visit to Ireland last week, on the way to PodCamp Ireland in Kilkenny, I was interviewed on Down To Business, Ireland’s premier business radio show on NewsTalk radio. The show’s presenter is Damien Kiberd, one of Ireland’s leading […]
A great success is how we would judge the first FIR Geek Dinner in the UK which took place in Windsor on Friday October 5, 2007. As the photo indicates, we had a full house in the Ristorante Amalfi where […]
Content summary: FIR face-to-face again in Wokingham, England; FIR Geek Dinner update; thoughts on this week’s CIPR social media workshop and the Ragan/SimplyCommunicate social media masterclass; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Dan York on the Podcasting and New Media […]
Content summary: FIR face-to-face in Wokingham, England; FIR Geek Dinner update; vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; Lee Hopkins reports; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; General Motors sponsors the Manic Mommies podcast; Neville’s thoughts about PodCamp Ireland with Shel’s […]