“Once we get thru the eighties, the nineties are going to make the sixties look like the fifties.” MySpace.com blasts past 90 millions users.
“it says here…” billy bragg v myspace
it seems myspace has changed its small print after the protestations of protester singer songwriter billy bragg. — my take on it is, it would have been proper and right for myspace to seek to have t+c’s that allow them to place artists music on third party pages where the artist allows this to happen,…
webcam
from my house to the world on the internet
bye bye TOTP hello myspace..
From Aretha to Jacko, Bob Marley to De La Soul, Prince to Kanye – they’ve all been on Top Of The Pops. Now, after 42 years, the world’s longest running weekly music programme is coming off our screens. At its peak it was a must-see pulling in 15m viewers, but BBC bosses reckon the show’s…
Obscene
Aertel p132 reports…. BOI CHIEF EXECUTIVE WAS PAID E2.5M The chief executive of Bank of Ireland, Brian Goggin received a total remuneration (pay plus bonus and pension) of in excess of E2.5m for the financial year 2005/2006. This is a 31% increase on the E1.9m he received the previous year. In addition to his basic…
Higgins V Bertie
Dáil Eireann 21/06/2006 The Taoiseach: As always, Deputy Joe Higgins would like to bring us back to the 1930s. Mr. Joe. Higgins (Socialist Party): They built more houses in the 1930s. The Taoiseach: Deputy Higgins loves asking questions—– Ms. Lynch: That is his job. The Taoiseach: —– but never wants to listen to any answers.…
European Podcasters Team Up To Lobby WIPO
SIGN THE PETITION PRESS RELEASE 19th June 2006 European Podcasters Team Up To Lobby WIPO Podcasters across the world have come together to emphatically reject the re-drafted Broadcast Treaty. the Irish Podcasting Representive Body (PodRepBod) has been joined by the UK Podcasters Association and German Podcastverband to lobby WIPO in a pan-european effort to assert…
breakdown hits RTE radio news at one
RTE radio one news this sunday was been struck by a technical breakdown, the new production system “crashed”. Nina Simone is playing out now from continuity. – and they’re back. 13:13pm
Why did RTE give Haughey such an easy ride.
RTE after broadcasting Dohertys implication was on strike by the time CJH went in 1992. Damaged by telephones (& bugs) old guard Fianna Fail passed away in an era of strikes, Sean Doherty went on Night Hawks and to a din of noise in the background he implicated Charles Haughey in the bugging in 1982…