Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster
I see Loic has posted dates for Les Blogs 3. It is on December 11th and 12th this year.
I went last year and I can honestly say it was the highlight of the year for me.
Still no mention of line-up or pricing but unless it is outrageously expensive, I’ll be going.
See you there?
It seems that I have been nominated for a 2006 Net Visionary award in three categories!
I don’t know who nominated me, but thanks. It is both flattering and humbling to be nominated, particularly in light of the quality of some of my fellow nominees.
I have been nominated in Best Social Contribution (!). I am also nominated in the Best Blogger category and finally, I am nominated in the Best Podcast category (for the PodLeaders.com podcast).
There are lots of other nominees in lots of other categories - if you haven’t done so already head on over and vote (voting is open to all).
Personally, I’ll be hard pressed to vote for myself in any of the categories the competition is that good!
I read on Conor O Neill’s blog this morning that Windows Live Writer has a plugin which allows insertion of Events. The Events can be added from Eventful using Live Clipboard or via a search Eventful button in the plugin.
To give it a try, I entered the information about the it@cork 2006 Annual Conference into Eventful. I then tried to use Live Clipboard to copy the data across into Live Writer but I couldn’t get this to work - I kept getting malformed XML errors.
Undaunted, I then tried the Search Eventful option and this worked eventually (the search facility is poor so it takes a long time to find the event you want). However, I found the Event in Eventful and it added it in to this post (below).
The formatting isn’t great (of the Description field in particular) but other than that it seems to work quite well.
According to the download page:
The published post included correct hCalendar microformatting
This is interesting - a tool supporting Microformats coming out of Microsoft - the shame of it is that when I last checked it has only been downloaded 149 times.
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Robert Scoble’s video show was launched this morning. The delay in the launch was due to the PodTech.net site’s re-design apparantly.
There are some fascinating interviews there. One of the videos is of a photo walk with Thomas Hawk. Thomas is a photographer in San Francisco and works with photo sharing site Zooomr.
I did a podcast on PodLeaders with Thomas a couple of months back and it was an engrossing interview but Robert vastly improves on my podcast by interweaving photos Thomas was taking as they were walking along by the Golden Gate bridge (and by being a far better interviewer!).
The interview with Sun CEO Jonathon Schwartz was a compelling insight into why Sun still matters!
And I love the wide screen format of the video.
I can’t wait to see the JotSpot video and the Shai Agassi interview - jeez, now I’m never going to get any work done!
[Update] I see Robert has blogged about it too
I’m just about to kick off the first of the it@cork blog training events - there are five training sessions between now and October 23rd. Hopefully I won’t totally bore the pants off the attendees and we’ll get some new and interesting blogs emerging from the course!
via Pat Phelan comes a nifty WordPress plugin which speeds up posting from WordPress blogs.
Called WP-No Ping Wait, the plugin works by waiting until after the post has been posted before alerting the pinging services!
Nice one, thanks Pat.
UPDATE - this plugin has caused issues on a number of sites I manage so I have disabled it until a more stable version comes out.
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