Well the Tech Camp Ireland meet-up is over and it was a great day. Kudos to Piaras and Ed for organising it. Some of the interesting talks that I attended were given by Darren Barefoot on (un)marketing and Digital Rights Ireland on our lack of digital rights in Ireland (think mandatory 3 year data retention, DRM, mobile phone tracking etc.)!
My own talk was titled “Increasing traffic: How to Promote your blog / web business” and a pdf copy is available for download here.
My talk was also recorded by Gavin Byrne of NearFM (the first radio station in Ireland to PodCast!) to be PodCast so when I get an uri for that I will update this post with those details.
Interesting observation from Tech Camp - I counted 8 laptops - 5 of which were macs. If Apple has only 5% of the market, how does that work?
The podCast of my talk is now available here
I have noticed the mac thing at conferances like this before. What I have also noticed, is that the majority of the other laptops tend to be thinkpads. Its probably down to who the attendees are, a self selecting group on technology enthusiasts , who as a result really care about their hardware. The macs attract about half, and the rest go for a high quality pc laptop (and the thinkpads really are great, and very linux compatible.
“Interesting observation from Tech Camp - I counted 8 laptops - 5 of which were macs. If Apple has only 5% of the market, how does that work?”
TechCamp is hardly an accurate representation of average computer users
True Hostyle,
Tech Camp attendees are power users!
Hi tom, just listening to the podcast of your talk. Good stuff. Thanks.
Tom,
Just listened to podcast presentation from techcamp. Very useful insights. Thanks, Fred
Liam and Fred,
thanks very much for the kind words - if you think it was a useful presentation and would be of benefit to others, you might tell more people or link to it from your site.
Cheers,
Tom.