Art, media, opinion and ideas
I'll be giving a talk on Defamation at the Blogging the Election conference today. I think it may be an intriguing clash of cultures so if you're knocking about town you might want to pop along. It's €15 on the door, including lunch.
A little while ago I added Treemo to my list of Video sharing sites whose Terms and Conditions I forced myself to read for your benefit. Well, Treemo's Aaron Racine responded as so:Thanks for sharing your thoughts about our Terms and Conditions (T&C).
I previously wrote about how a handful of votes in a handful of constituencies will decide the next election. I took us on a little tour of the Irish PR system, explaining why your fourth and fifth preferences can make the difference between success or failure for a candidate. And I gave a link to a printable version of the Irish voter registration form.
What day was supposed to be poetry day? Monday was it? Well, never mind. I am, as Krusty the Klown once said, a lazy, lazy man, so I'll do my poetry thing whenever I can muster the initiative. This may be often, or it may be never, only time will tell.
If you'd like a lawyer's eye view of what happened yesterday in the Corrib Gas case, you can slope over to the McGarr Solicitors website to read up on it. McGarr Solicitors represent two of the Defendants in the Shell case- Brid McGarry and Brendan Philbin. Shorter version: Shell seeking to withdraw the claim that had 5 men put in jail for 94 days last year.
I will be giving a small talk on the Digital Rights Ireland case at Barcamp on Saturday. I hope to briefly outline the basis for the case and then open the floor to questions. I think the quicker you can get to the questions stage of an explanatory talk, the more likely it is that people will hear something that they really wanted answered.
I've added a new site to my review of Terms and Conditions of Video Sharing sites. The gist:TreemoRelevant Clause: "You grant HyperBoy a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual and fully sublicensable and transferable right.
Podcasting is very hard work. Videocasting would be insanely hard work. This is because there are two very difficult parts to any successful effort in either- preproduction and post-production.
Well, it crashes my Firefox 1. 5. 0.
In his first foray into the world of writing for the new McGarr Solicitors site, my father has pointed out that, without noticing it, Ireland lost a lot of long-standing laws last year. Amongst them the mysteriously titled Prerogativa Regis (Royal Prerogatives) 'the Land of Lunatics' and 'the Land of Idiots'- which have been in force here since about the 11th Century.
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