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Re: Some Podcasting Musings on Friday Night

Tom Raftery — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:03:44 -0000

Leesa, as the producer of the it@cork podcasts I'd just like to say a quick thanks for the link and the kind words.

I have to say I echo a lot of the sentiments in your post - especially on iTunes and th perception of podcasting being only for geeks.

Keep up the great work.

Re: My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 17th through April 22nd

Tom Raftery — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:46:08 -0000

I do respect you enormously Dennis and love reading your blog. However, I do all my reading in my RSS reader.

For now I have VERY reluctantly unsubbed from your blog.

Please let me know if you change your policy and I will re-sub immediately.

Btw, still not getting emails of follow-up comments Dennis despite it telling me that I am subscribed to this entry :-(

Thanks.

Re: My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 17th through April 22nd

Tom Raftery — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:20:47 -0000

By the way, although I clicked the "Notify me of follow up comments via e-mail" I didn't see your reply until I refreshed the page.

You might want to check the status of that plugin.

Re: My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 17th through April 22nd

Tom Raftery — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:10:54 -0000

If the content is compelling they will share using Google reader. No-one will share a partial feed.

If the content is really good, as yours frequently is they will click through to comment or bookmark. They wont know that from a partial feed though.

Partial feeds only piss people off. RSS readers are not the audience you want to lose and you will lose them with partial feeds.

If you are worried about monetisation. RSS readers don't click on ads anyway. Google traffic does. You need link love to get the Google traffic.

Re: My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 17th through April 22nd

Tom Raftery — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:32:19 -0000

Dennis, your blog is only publishing partial feeds. I assume that is an error. The people most likely to link and bookmark (read drive traffic) dont have time to click through to read the content on the site.

Re: Encyclopaedia Britannica online goes sort of free

Tom Raftery — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:59:01 -0000

Dennis,

your blog is only publishing partial feeds.

I hope this is not on purpose.

Tom

Re: The cost of ‘always on’ creeps higher

Tom Raftery — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:46:51 -0000

Hey Dennis,

Monthly landline per month in Ireland is â‚¬24. Now add â‚¬40 for DSL and 21% VAT and you can start to be thankful you didn't decide to move to Ireland!

On the roaming front, I assume you are tuned into what MaxRoam will be offering?

Re: Blush – you can’t buy this

Tom Raftery — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:06:59 -0000

Q4?

Excellent Dennis - can't wait.

Re: Cox & Balls

Tom Raftery — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:09:40 -0000

Glad I clicked through on this despite knowing nothing about Hedge Funds or any form of horticulture!

Excellent clip.

Re: Three important events

Tom Raftery — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:50:21 -0000

Thanks for the links Dennis!

Re: AccmanTV – 2

Tom Raftery — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:53:11 -0000

Excellent Dennis - and the cleanup was a definite improvement too!

Re: Meet Spanning Sync

Tom Raftery — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:35:56 -0000

but Dennis you can synch iCal directly to Gcal - you don't need any extra apps to do that.

Re: Meet Spanning Sync

Tom Raftery — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:39:10 -0000

Dennis - I do exactly that with iSynch which comes free with the Mac.

Am I missing some extra functionality that Spanning Synch has?

Re: Understanding Twitter

Tom Raftery — Fri, 11 May 2007 10:45:37 -0000

What the guys said - but just to re-iterate - under no circumstances send the tweets to your phone. You'll just go berserk!

Re: Turning accounting inside out

Tom Raftery — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:40:37 -0000

Ismael sent it to me on a 2Gb stick

Bloody favouritism ;-)

Re: Turning accounting inside out

Tom Raftery — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:13:45 -0000

Is that who sent it?

I got one in the post with no covering note so I hadn't a clue where it came from.

What is the difference though between this ThinkFree and OpenOffice (apart from the fact that OpenOffice is free)?

What am I missing? I didn't see any ability within the apps to connect to the online apps.

Re: Happy Unbirthday Windows

Tom Raftery — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:44:05 -0000

See now, a post like this should be accompanied by a photo of the offending Windows box being used as a door stop, or a bird house, or a slops trough or....

Re: Stansted assholes

Tom Raftery — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:36:21 -0000

Dennis,

what is the situation with women's handbags? Are they treated as handbaggage? Or can women carry a handbag and one piece of hand baggage?

Airline security has become an absolute joke. It is completely reactive - reacting to the terrorists mode of attack.

First it was guns, then scissors/box cutters, then shoes, now liquids. I can't wait until terrorists decide to use oxygen (or boarding cards) to try to blow up a plane!

Re: Educational standards

Tom Raftery — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:12:16 -0000

I couldn't agree more Dennis.

Kids in Ireland are learning IT skills despite our education system instead of because of it.

They learn at home or in a friend's house.

This is an appalling state of affairs. One which perpetuates a digital divide based on parental income instead of a meritocracy.

If this is allowed continue, what hope for the country and its current economic boom?

Re: TIBCO the creator

Tom Raftery — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:05:04 -0000

Brilliant Dennis!

Re: Symantec boss pockets $1.5 mill as performance tanks

Tom Raftery — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:40:31 -0000

Nice bit of detective work Dennis - this certainly looks very dodgy and not the kind of ethics you want to see in the head of a security company!

Re: Innovation idea 2007/2: Culling from the customer experience

Tom Raftery — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:16:56 -0000

You drink Bud?

Sorry Dennis, I have just lost all respect for you ;-)

Re: Things they do in Saskatchewan

Tom Raftery — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:54:49 -0000

Just goes to show, everyone has a talent, I guess!

Re: Snap to it

Tom Raftery — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:41:46 -0000

Saw this on TechCrunch first if memory serves.

I don't like it as it is unexpected behaviour and more likely to confuse rather than enlighten imho.

Re: Cisco is clueless

Tom Raftery — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 16:26:52 -0000

Dennis and The Brother (!),

consider yourselves lucky. ICT isn't even a subject on the curriculum in Ireland!

Schools are woefully under-equipped with many having a couple of Windows 98 PCs or worse.

Educators are not trained in ICT and are terrified of going near the PCs in case the kids realise how much more than the teachers they know.

The government is not investing in computers for schools. Incredibly Tesco has contributed more to Irish schools in the last 5 years than the Irish government!

And Dennis, to be fair to Robert Scoble, he was the one who recommended to Microsoft that they hire me for Web 2.0 consultancy.

Re: Interprise for enterprise

Tom Raftery — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:18:05 -0000

Dennis, why don't you install Parallels on your Mac, this way you can run both Windows and OS X concurrently and then, there's no need to reboot?

Re: Office 2007 – message not understood

Tom Raftery — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:54:56 -0000

Interesting Dennis - I went through the same thought processes as the two previous commenters.

My first reaction is, sure, I'll think about when they bring out the Mac version. Quickly followed by, oh no I won't, I'll just use an online office app for free! No download and universally available.

Re: Jeff Nolan – IT@cork

Tom Raftery — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:47:04 -0000

Thanks for the link and the kind words Dennis.

Unfortunately a lot of that hour never made it to the mp3 file 'cos it was just us chatting 'bout tech stuff (our Mac setups etc.) before I switched on the recorder and started the interview proper. What was interesting (to me) was how we have both have such similar tech setups developed completely independently!

Re: No.10 grand-child has arrived

Tom Raftery — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 07:08:10 -0000

Fantastic news Dennis - congrats.

Re: Ernst & Young gets recruitment religion

Tom Raftery — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:29:16 -0000

Thanks Dennis - I just lost my breakfast - slap a big nausia inducing warning on this post!!!

Re: Gizza job

Tom Raftery — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:59:00 -0000

Dennis, I used that term (albeit with a slightly diff spelling but referencing Boys from the Blackstuff) in my jobseeking post a few months back.

A great series.

Re: Starting on a high – 1,000 posts on and still having fun

Tom Raftery — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:55:08 -0000

Dennis, wow! Congrats on a serious level (and quality) of output.

I'm at it over two years now and I'm at about 730 posts and 4,000 comments.

Must blog faster. Must blog faster. Must...

Re: Ode to a (fellow) curmudgeon – Nick Carr

Tom Raftery — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:25:53 -0000

Ouch!

Mike, it does no-one any good to make statements like that about anyone publicly.

If you really don't like Nick, don't give him any attention (i.e. don't link to him, don't read him and if you hear anything about him, ignore it).

Public name calling only serves to make you look bad.

Re: 3 men in a boat

Tom Raftery — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:43:02 -0000

As I said in my own post I was gobsmacked to be included in that list.

On mature reflection, I am now concerned for the state of Thought Leadership in the Economist's Intelligence Unit if they have included me!

Re: Mike McDerment podcast – we have much to learn

Tom Raftery — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:28:58 -0000

Not to worry Dennis - you were perfectly clear.

I was just having a bit of a laugh at myself this morning - must turn that into a post on my own blog later.

Cheers,

Tom.

Re: Mike McDerment podcast – we have much to learn

Tom Raftery — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:08:18 -0000

Wow Dennis - who knew my lack of knowledge could be such an advantage?

I can see whole new vistas opening up. There must be hundreds of jobs about which I know absolutely nothing (brain surgery, astrophysics, IT (oops!)).

I could brand it as The Clueless Manifesto! - "Need a guy who knows absolutely nothing, Tom's yer only man!"

Re: Theory matters

Tom Raftery — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:58:49 -0000

but I have to sell ideas to real people in real businesses where real money is at stake in places they and their peers call markets.

How can you do that Dennis when markets are imaginary?

I'm confused!

;)

Re: 5 deadly mistakes when starting a business

Tom Raftery — Mon, 15 May 2006 07:14:32 -0000

Sales?

D'oh! I knew there was something I was forgetting.

Re: Have I just seen the whiff of change at Microsoft?

Tom Raftery — Sat, 06 May 2006 06:56:12 -0000

Dennis,

have you tried it yet? I logged into my Windows Live Mail account this morning and tried to switch from Classic Hotmail view to the Windows Live Mail Experience but I'm still getting the same lame interface in Firefox.

Re: LinkedIn as a social network builder

Tom Raftery — Tue, 02 May 2006 06:12:47 -0000

What he said!

Now all I need to do is go off and make a compelling LinkedIn profile page!!!

Re: Do I blog too often?

Tom Raftery — Mon, 01 May 2006 04:32:32 -0000

Dennis,

I hope you don't take the perceived wisdom comment the wrong way.

I always believe that consultants (myself included) are selling perceived wisdom - because, while we may realise how wise we are - we need to convince potential clients of our wisdom - it is their perception of our wisdom (or lack of) which decides on whether the sale is closed or not.

Re: Do I blog too often?

Tom Raftery — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:21:23 -0000

Hi Dennis,

this is a tricky one too - if you post your ideas, you are potentially giving away the crown jewels (so to speak) - why would anyone hire you when they can read all about it on your blog?

On the other hand, don't post your ideas, someone else does, and they end up being contracted to do work you should have landed.

Personally, I say post as many of your ideas as you can - it hasn't hurt Seth Godin, for example! It can only serve to increase your perceived wisdom.

Re: Do I blog too often?

Tom Raftery — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 06:06:38 -0000

This is always a thorny one Dennis.

I have reduced the frequency of my postings in the past 6 months (not for any strategic reasons - it is just that I have been spending more time on creating content for podleaders.com!) but at the same time my readership has increased during this time!

I like to think it is because the posts I put up are now more considered and not that it is taking people longer to find out what a twit I really am!!!

In your own case, if a post isn't time sensitive, why not hold back on posting it for a day or two - leave it as a draft. Re-visit it a couple of times and see if you can add anything to it over the course of one or two days.

If you find this process means you are significantly re-writing your posts, it may be worth keeping on this process. If you aren't adding much to your posts, then maybe the procedure you have in place now is what works for you.

Re: Explaining compliance

Tom Raftery — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:50:36 -0000

Delighted Dennis - glad I was able to get your question in this time. Thanks for the contribution and for the positive write-up (and link).

Re: Vendor messaging and Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:19:13 -0000

Dennis - great post and thanks a million for the exceedingly generous plug!

Tom.

Re: Technorati for dummies

Tom Raftery — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:07:41 -0000

Thanks for the kind words Dennis and not to worry, I'll not let StartMEup down - it is too important a resource for everyone.

Re: First Community Project

Tom Raftery — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 07:00:04 -0000

Dennis,

Count me in - if i can help in any small way at all, I will.

Tom

Re: Answers to taxing questions

Tom Raftery — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:37:09 -0000

Hey Dennis,

I heard of Ning but I haven't played with it.

A friend of mine created an app in it but was disappointed to discover that Ning maintains copyright over the app - he had a couple of email conversations with Ning about this and they said they were looking into changing that but afaik nothing has changed yet. This would deter me from using Ning I have to say.

Having said that, I'd be embarrassed to be putting anything I coded into a public forum - people's worst suspicions about my intellect would be confirmed!

Re: Tom Raftery podcast with WordPress - Digging in a Habari sandpit

Tom Raftery — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:41:16 -0000

Thanks for the link Andy - glad you found the podcast useful.

Re: Tom Raftery podcast with WordPress - Digging in a Habari sandpit

Tom Raftery — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:37:10 -0000

Andy,

not to worry, my surname is often mis-spelt raferty or rafferty and consequently I score highly in Google for the mis-spellings as well as the correct spelling!

Re: automated MySQL backups - Digging in a Habari sandpit

Tom Raftery — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:40:06 -0000

Andy,

I think you missed the point of my article (apologies for not being clearer with my message) - I wasn't relying on my host to have backups (I had backups myself on my local machine), I was complaining about my hosts response when notified that they had lost all my files.

They didn't know when I contacted them that I had a backup. Yet their attitude was "meh" followed by, "well, it is really your fault"

A more satisfactory response might have been - "We are dreadfully sorry this happened. What can we do to help you get your site back up again?"

Re: automated MySQL backups - Digging in a Habari sandpit

Tom Raftery — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:24:29 -0000

Ah!

Sorry for the mix-up and thanks for clarifying it for me.

Re: Snap made me finally snap - Digging in a Habari sandpit

Tom Raftery — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:54:38 -0000

Aw c'mon Andy - get off the fence and tell us do you like Snap or not? ;-)

Re: resisting the lure of Google Reader - Digging in a Habari sandpit

Tom Raftery — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:11:51 -0000

Andy,

thanks for the mention and the link.

The feature I'd most like to see in Google Reader is a Search box! You'd think, being Google, that would be one of the first things they'd roll out.

Re: Top 10 UK blogs - Digging in a Habari sandpit

Tom Raftery — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:42:21 -0000

Andy, wow!

Thanks a million for listing me in your list of top 10 UK and Irish blogs!

Re: Great party… er, company you got there

Tom Raftery — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 07:20:00 -0000

Mathew - hi, and thanks for the link.

I'm not sure i get your point, though. I got an invite to try out edgeio because registered on the site to do so last November. I live in Cork, Ireland, not Silicon Valley and i have a blog read by my mother, her cat and um well by my mother and her cat!

What I am saying is I am not one of the 'in' crowd, I didn't get an invite to the party (nor did I expect one), I got a look at edgeio 'cos I signed up for it months ago - I'm not sure what lines are blurred there.

Sorry if I am missing something obvious.

Re: Great party… er, company you got there

Tom Raftery — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:48:34 -0000

No problem Matthew - it is nice to be mistaken for someone important once in a while!

Re: Payback is a bitch, isn’t it Mark?

Tom Raftery — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:18:45 -0000

If I didn't know you better Matthew, I'd swear you were gloating ;-)

Re: http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2008/07/twhirl-supports.html

Tom Raftery — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:56:39 -0000

Same here Loic, Twhirl now needs to support OpenID login

Re: Europe’s largest onshore wind farm is coming to Romania

Tom Raftery — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:43:10 -0000

You think?

If Russia invaded Georgia to secure its oil assets, how soon before they start looking at large wind installations hungrily?

Re: it@cork Web 2.0 Conference post geek dinner

Tom Raftery — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 05:51:02 -0000

Paul,

Damien Mulley is organising one for the evening before - most of the speakers will be there. Most of the speakers are leaving Cork after the conference.

Still, I imagine enough people will be hanging around to have a drink and a bite to eat afterwards.

Re: it@cork Web 2.0 Conference wrap-up

Tom Raftery — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:38:24 -0000

Small point Paul - it is Raftery, not Raferty!

Other than that, thanks for coming along and I'm glad you found it useful.

Tom.

Re: Got OPML?

Tom Raftery — Thu, 10 May 2007 09:44:57 -0000

Sent!

Re: RSS Copyright Protection

Tom Raftery — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:47:50 -0000

JB,

thanks for mentioning my site - I enjoyed your article very much and have changed the wording of my footer along the lines suggested in your article (I guess you could really say I plagiarised them - oops!).

I'll write a quick post tomorrow mentioning this site on my own blog - thanks for the advice.

Tom.

Re: Scoble relies on Apple to recognise fellow Microsoft employees

Tom Raftery — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 03:51:32 -0000

I'm NOT a Microsoft employee Robert?

Damn! I thought that maybe in a drunken moment I had been press-ganged and I was just awaiting the fist paycheck in the post!

Tom

Re: Tom Raftery’s complaints fall on deaf ears - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Tom Raftery — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:00:35 -0000

Thanks for the support Paul.

Re: Setup company that will sell to blogs - 10 steps - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Tom Raftery — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:00:34 -0000

Alternatively, outsource the work using Mechanical Turk and save yourself a fortune!

Re: Mobile Web or Mobile Internet (WAP)? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Tom Raftery — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:38:33 -0000

As head of a company which developed some of the first WAP applications (a couple of which Luca linked to at the time) I feel I know WAP pretty intimately.

Having said that, I'm a strong advocate of having one version of a site not maintaining multiple versions of a site to be served up depending on the client app.

Re: Cork and Dublin, here we come - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Tom Raftery — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:57:56 -0000

Unfortunate timing Paul, today is the first anniversary of my mother's death.

Won't be able to make either of the days.

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Tom Raftery — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:33:44 -0000

However, in this case the CEO responded privately to me by email in October 2006 when I first published the blog post.

In his response at the time he specifically referred to the blog post.

For some bizarre reason he decided, out of the blue, to start a debate about the blog post again in February 2008. That he did so is strange enough. But the manner in which he did so, where he made unfounded , false personal allegations about me, speaks volumes about his ability as a CEO.

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Tom Raftery — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:04:00 -0000

Paul, don't get me wrong. I have absolutely no problem with the CEO getting involved in a situation like this. In fact, I would typically encourage it. My problem is that he chose to lie about me and to hurl personal insults. This doesn't bother me personally. Plenty of people insult me!!! What it does do is it blackens the Blueface brand and it makes Feargal look bad.

If I were advising him I would have told him to leave a comment along the lines of

Tom, I am very sorry you had issues with our product. We have made many changes and improvements to our infrastructure in the last 14 months since you had these issues. I would love to have you try our service again and see for yourself just how much it has improved

Those kind of sentiments would go a lot further, and would make the Blueface company look far better than trying to smear me with personal insults and falsehoods.

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Tom Raftery — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:06:53 -0000

In this case, yes, it would be refreshing to get an honest response from the CEO!!!His every comment contained some lie, personal insult or blatantly false allegation.

As I said previously, this only reflected poorly on himself personally and the Blueface brand which he represents, as well.

There are many, far more appropriate responses he could have made. Dissing a former customer in a public forum never looks good. But lying in the process and being caught out doing so is unforgivable.

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Tom Raftery — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:49:46 -0000

By the way, I outed the Blueface CEO for lying on my blog.

If he had any proof that he wasn't lying, data privacy laws or no, I'd be receiving a takedown notice quicker than you can say "liar, liar pants on fire!"

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Tom Raftery — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:51:22 -0000

As a complete aside, commenting on this site with Firefox keeps my paragraph spacing, comments left above in Safari lose all paragraph info!

Thought you should know.

Re: Should the CEO get involved? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Tom Raftery — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:08:57 -0000

Aw, nice one, thanks Paul. That looks a lot better.

One request, can you drop a couple of paragraph breaks into my first comment too?

Cheers

Re: Blocking ads is like being a free rider

Tom Raftery — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:43:25 -0000

I'm sorry Nic, I have to disagree with you on this one.

I read this site and most others through my rss reader. Very few sites are publishing ads through their rss feeds.

If people are serious about not wanting users viewing ad-free versions of their sites, they should stop publishing rss feeds.

Alternatively, they should publish ads in their rss feed, if they are determined to show ads to anyone/everyone who wants to view their content.

If they take that approach though, they better have pretty compelling content because it is very easy to unsubscribe from an rss feed if the quality of the content doesn't mitigate the annoyance of the ads.

Re: 2006/02/02/dabble-delicious-for-video/

Tom Raftery — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:07:56 -0000

Hi Pete,

I did a podcast interview with Mary Hodder just the other day where she spoke extensively about Dabble - the thinking behind it and the business model. Interesting stuff - you can listen to it at http://www.podleaders.com/mary-hodder-podcast/

Tom

Re: 2006/02/02/dabble-delicious-for-video/

Tom Raftery — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:45:26 -0000

Pete,

I hope that's not to say you are using my podcasts as a way to put yourself to sleep at the dentist's?

:-)

Tom

Re: Apple Sneaky, Microsoft is No Angel, Either

Tom Raftery — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:50:20 -0000

Joh,

I think you misunderstood Zoli's point. It was Ed Bott who said Apple were wrong - just look at Windows Update as the shining example of how to do things right.

Zoli and I, when we finally stopped laughing at such a ridiculous assertion, both pointed out that Microsoft are just as culpable as Apple in their update practices.

Both are wrong to use opt-in and Ed makes himself look silly by trying to grab the moral highground on this one.

Re: Apple Sneaky, Microsoft is No Angel, Either

Tom Raftery — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:50:20 -0000

Re: Wiki Review or Rant?

Tom Raftery — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:23:49 -0000

Zoli,

thanks for the link.

To answer some of your questions:
Hosted Confluence is NOT available under the community license. As this was for a not-for-profit a community license was all we could go for. PBWiki and SocialText had no such restrictions.
I tried out DekiWiki but the lack of an ability to create Groups ruled it out quickly.
I realise it was a long post but the wiki is for an organisation with multiple committees and sub-committees, not for a conference. We used it to organise one of the organisations conferences last year. This year we intend to use a wiki to run the organisation, not just the conference.
WetPaint was also looked into and ruled out because of the inability to keep your wikis private.

If I didn't go into detail on DekiWiki, it was at the end of a long post in which I had gone into considerable detail on the other 3 wikis. I didn't have much more to add about DekiWiki, so I didn't go into detail on it (and anyway I didn't want to write the War and Peace of wiki reviews!).

Sorry this post didn't live up to your expectations.

Re: Wiki Review or Rant?

Tom Raftery — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:23:49 -0000

Re: Wiki Review or Rant?

Tom Raftery — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:04:20 -0000

Zoli,

As a significant number of people read blog posts in RSS readers (thereby missing the comments) I would appreciate if you would update your post with my explanations )specifically my reasons for not using hosted Confluence and for not chosing DekiWiki).

Thanks,

Tom

Re: Wiki Review or Rant?

Tom Raftery — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:04:20 -0000

Re: Wiki Review or Rant?

Tom Raftery — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:06:58 -0000

Zoli - thanks for updating the post.

Charlie, with all due respect, I think you are wrong. That may have been the case five years ago but the world has moved on. Thousands of companies now trust some of their most sensitive information to hosted applications like Salesforce.com, Freshbooks, MyRMA.net, etc.

Even Microsoft realises this and is now starting to port their applications to online - hence their hosted Exchange, hosted CRM and Windows Live offerings.

Even environmentally, it makes more sense to use online applications (remember carbon taxes and carbon accounting are only a few years off).

Setting up applications on your own servers is the way of the past.

Re: Wiki Review or Rant?

Tom Raftery — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:06:58 -0000

Re: Way to Copy, Microsoft

Tom Raftery — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:13:05 -0000

Thanks for the link!

I also couldn't get it to work in Firefox on the mac.

Cheers,

Tom

Re: Here we go!

Tom Raftery — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:10:55 -0000

To answer BillyG - there is no Feed link yet - in the meantime you can see the uri for the feed if you view the source of the site. For RSS 2 it is http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/feed/

Robert - you might consider using Subscribe and Help buttons as discussed here:
http://www.tomrafteryit.net/subscribe-button-ii/

Re: Here we go!

Tom Raftery — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:10:53 -0000

Ah Robert,

you're not going to keep that header image, are you? It is a terrible picture of you - you are squinting, probably 'cos the sun is in your eyes (?).

Surely you can get a better pic for the header image - in my own case, I used Kubrickr (http://www.redalt.com/Tools/kubrickr.php) to automatically find a Flickr image and crop it to the correct size for my Wordpress theme.

HTH,

Tom

Re: Here we go!

Tom Raftery — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:17:02 -0000

Sorry zac hipster,

I'm running OS X 10.4.2 and viewing this site and I see no similarity whatsoever between the two.

Re: RSS usability sucks

Tom Raftery — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:37:05 -0000

Robert we had a great discussion on my site a few weeks ago following Dave Winer's suggestion of a Subscribe button.

What we came up with is an orange Subscribe and a Help button alongside it - I think it works quite well. Have a look at the buttons in this post - they are free to copy, as is the help text.

Re: #50: I promise to kiss the Blarney stone

Tom Raftery — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 04:29:29 -0000

Thanks a million for allowing me to interview you Robert - you were exceptionally generous with your time and knowledge - that's what makes it such a great interview and podcast.

One minor correction - I am minorly involved in the organisation of the conference (I mostly get in the way) - the main organiser is Catherine Wall - Catherine has done a phenomenal job of putting a great line-up together for the conference (including yourself and Charles Handy).

Thanks again,

Tom

Re: My blogroll is up to date

Tom Raftery — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 13:56:28 -0000

Which is a problem cause everywhere I speak now they want PowerPoints. Got one due on Monday

Robert - the issue for us wasn't that we wanted you to use PowerPoint particularly - rather, we want to use a single laptop to run the presentations of all the speakers so as long as it is some presentation program we could get our hands on, we wouldn't mind if it was Keynote, or Notepad!

I can't speak for other conferences obviously, but I'm sure they'd be equally accomodating.

Re: SAP CEO’s hilarious quote

Tom Raftery — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:40:47 -0000

Someone slap him upside of the head with a clue stick!

Re: Madness personified

Tom Raftery — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:16:57 -0000

Zidane is due to speak at a press conference this evening about the incident so we'll know more than however, I have to agree with Curt - Zidane let himself down badly by falling for this troll. It played right into Italy's hands. I wouldn't be surprised if it was even planned. Zidane should have known better. He probably let fatigue cloud his judgement.

Re: Madness personified

Tom Raftery — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:03:45 -0000

And he didnâ€™t even have the decency to pick up his medal

Are players who are red-carded allowed to collect medals? I only ask because the commentators didn't seem to remark on his non-appearance.

Being a computer geek these soccer things are completely alient to me!

Shame to see such a talented player finish his last international game in such a fashion. It can't be the way he wants to be remembered.

Re: Is it Wordpress or IE?

Tom Raftery — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:55:31 -0000

Dennis - this kind of breakage is often down to IEs rendering of CSS so it is more likely to be an issue around the theme, rather than WordPress itself.

Re: Limping back onto the grid

Tom Raftery — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:39:03 -0000

Dennis,

the new theme looks great, well done.

Congrats on the move - good luck with the connectivity!

Tom.

Re: Innovate!Europe – some great ideas out there

Tom Raftery — Wed, 17 May 2006 12:12:17 -0000

Fabulous coincidence Dennis - I podcast the talk Judy gave at the Enterprise Ireland Web 2.0 event in Dublin a couple of weeks ago.

The event was organised by Brian O'Malley!

And the podcast of Judy's talk is over on PodLeaders.com.

Re: Sad SaaS news – let’s wait for Sage

Tom Raftery — Tue, 16 May 2006 09:17:38 -0000

"We fear change, we fear change..."

Re: Share my virtual Google Calendar?

Tom Raftery — Mon, 15 May 2006 08:20:48 -0000

Hey Dennis - I did a quick review of Google Calendar a week or so ago (great minds eh?) and I concluded that apart from one or two minor irritants, it is a great app.

Re: More from Ireland

Tom Raftery — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 07:25:26 -0000

Do the death and penguins one, do the death and penguins one!

Re: Interview with WordPress' developers

Tom Raftery — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:43:30 -0000

Thanks for the link Robert - I had a cool time interviewing them.

Re: I’m pushing for more transparency, here’s why

Tom Raftery — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 05:35:46 -0000

Robert, would we have heard anything about this if Google had handed over their data just like everyone else?

Is this not the DoJ simply setting a precedent for asking for far more specific data in the future? And as such shouldn't MSN have resisted the demands?

Re: Off to Switzerland, taking my podcasts

Tom Raftery — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:12:12 -0000

Hey Robert,

You are probably already subscribed to PodLeaders.com (Thought Leaders podcast) but just in case, I thought I'd mention it.

I published an interview with Mary Hodder today - it was great, she's a fascinating interview.

Also of interest to you should be the IT@Cork podcast, (see http://blog.itcork.ie) - you can now find the Charles Handy talk podcast there - it has received fabulous feedback.

Re: Overwhelmed with pitches, Dave, say it isn’t so!

Tom Raftery — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:58:15 -0000

What’s your small story? How about we do a contest? 100 things that you won’t read about on Digg, Memeorandum, or TailRank? Wouldn’t that be fun?

Robert - my small story is how furious I am that Hotmail deleted all my old mails - going back years - just because I didn't log in in the last 30 days.

How stupid a policy is that? Do any of hotmail's competitors have similar policies?

Re: Overwhelmed with pitches, Dave, say it isn’t so!

Tom Raftery — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 03:14:27 -0000

As far as hotmail goes.. well, you get what you pay for.

Dmad, Gmail is free also and they don't have this policy. Furthermore, they allow POP access which means my mail client logs in to my Gmail account every 30 minutes, so even if Gmail did decide to institute such a ridiculous policy, I wouldn't fall foul of it.

Re: Overwhelmed with pitches, Dave, say it isn’t so!

Tom Raftery — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 04:43:11 -0000

the point is you get what you pay for

Dmad I understand that. My point is that for the same price (free) I get a whole lot more from Hotmail's competitors (Gmail and Yahoo!).

Re: MP3 of the week and other stuff from my aggregator

Tom Raftery — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:35:51 -0000

Ummm,

Robert, Ireland is part of Europe and Ireland has the world's strictest anti-smoking legislation - smoking is banned in the workplace - period. It doesn't matter if that workplace is a bar or a restaurant or a hotel. Smoking is banned.

Ireland is the only country in the world with such anti-smoking legislation.

Re: Announcement, I’m going to Google

Tom Raftery — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:14:18 -0000

Robert - what you may have missed in the hoopla is that ATT have announced they are to buy Google - something to do with a tiered Internet - more here http://www.tomrafteryit.net/att-purchase-google/

Re: Let’s ban “cool” codenames that don’t pass search test

Tom Raftery — Mon, 01 May 2006 16:08:17 -0000

Strange - ‘cos both Vista and Longhorn (Vista’s codename) are both proper nouns which would have had entries in Google long before they were chosen by Microsoft.

Re: Microsoft doesn’t support Firefox?

Tom Raftery — Fri, 05 May 2006 22:00:29 -0000

Well done Robert,

I wrote a post earlier this week on Windows Live Mail's exclusionary policy of supporting IE only. I put up a screenshot of the crappy interface that is Live Mail in Firefox.

Keep pushing that boat out and making Microsoft a better corporate citizen for all of us.

Re: Microsoft doesn’t support Firefox?

Tom Raftery — Sat, 06 May 2006 05:28:13 -0000

Robert - I agree absolutely (no surprise there) - Microsoft's products do need to support Firefox out of the gate.

I wouldn't count myself as one of the 'influentials' but I have reviewed many of Microsoft's releases soon after their release and I have always panned them for their lack of Firefox support.

In fact, I have gone further and left comments on the blogs of any of the teams who had them (like the start.com team, for instance) but I always got the impression that I was annoying people rather than providing valuable feedback.

Re: Bad news, my mom is in hospital

Tom Raftery — Wed, 10 May 2006 06:56:15 -0000

Robert, My Mom had a stroke and heart attack in October last year. Feel free to email me (tom@tomrafteryit.net) or phone me (+353 86 384 0828) to have a chat.

Best of luck.

Tom.

Re: Bad news gets worse

Tom Raftery — Thu, 11 May 2006 07:08:29 -0000

Robert (and family),

there's really nothing I can say which hasn't been said already by other commenters and far more eloquently than I ever could.

My mother went through similar events several times (pulmonary embolism in 95, catastrophic brain haemorrhage in 97, stroke and heart attack in 2005).

I've sat beside that hospital bed holding that hand too. It is a horrible mix of helplessness and despair. You want your mother's suffering to stop but you don't want her to die. You want her back the way she was but you know you can't turn back the clock.

Mortality is a bastard.

Thinking of you.

Tom.

Re: Bawling over bowling

Tom Raftery — Thu, 11 May 2006 07:14:54 -0000

Robert - thinking of you - keep posting to the blog, not so much to tell us what is going on but for its cathartic value to you.

It is a form of release for you and will help you deal with what you are going through.

Warm regards from Cork.

Tom.

Re: We want pictures Tom!

Tom Raftery — Wed, 24 May 2006 03:23:30 -0000

Thanks Robert - I put a couple of pics up on Flickr last night.

Shel Israel, his wife Paula and Salim Ismail are coming over here the week after next (7th June) for our Web 2.0 mini-conference on the 8th. I hope they'll enjoy their time here as much as Maryam and you did.

Re: PodTech’s content and Web site challenges

Tom Raftery — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:00:32 -0000

Robert,

One item I'd like to see there is an ability to rate podcasts - so if I think a podcast is particularly good, I can give it a 5/5, for example. Then when I come to the site, I can look for higher rated podcasts to listen to.

Re: Online wordprocessor updated, but does it have a chance at survival?

Tom Raftery — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:00:01 -0000

I blogged about this previously Robert. One of the problems I see with Zoho Writer is its inability to work properly (or consistently) on the mac platform.

I worked with the developers from Zoho to try to test this for them but they couldn't get it to work.

Writely works perfectly on my Mac.

Case closed.

Re: CEO lesson: don’t miss interviews with podcasters

Tom Raftery — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:37:56 -0000

LayZ,

in my own post on this I mentioned that:

I sat on the conference call line, patiently listening to the hold music, expecting him to arrive for over 17 minutes (I’m a little slow to catch on to these things!) but no-show. I emailed my contact, nothing. I called her, nothing. I re-checked my email and sure enough the time and numbers were correct.

Now, if something had come up, I’m not a hard guy to get hold of. All my contact details are in the sidebar on the right and my blog is readily found in a Google search.

My contact has since emailed with an apology but I haven't heard from David at all (nor do I expect to at this point).

I had spent a considerable amount of time preparing for this interview. I had re-scheduled it to yesterday at very short notice to accomodate David and then he didn't show.

I figured I might as well get a bit of a laugh, if nothing else, for the time and energy I spent on this.

Re: CEO lesson: don’t miss interviews with podcasters

Tom Raftery — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:56:35 -0000

Oops,

forgot to also say thanks to Megan for the kind words and the support.

On the career limiting comments - this was podcast no. 40 for PodLeaders. PodLeaders has published podcasts with Vint Cerf, Bruce Horn, Robert Scoble, Marc Canter, Steve Rubel, Jeff Clavier, Loic Le Meur, John Battelle, Niall Kennedy, Dave Sifry and Kevin Burton amongst others.

I think PodLeader's record as a quality content producer can stand one fun-poking podcast.

Re: CEO lesson: don’t miss interviews with podcasters

Tom Raftery — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:32:40 -0000

Just a quick follow-up,

I have had an email exchange with David and the first thing he said was

I thought the no show podcast was pretty funny ;-)

We have re-scheduled the interview.

Good on you Dave for taking it in the spirit in which it was intended.

Re: Is Akismet down?

Tom Raftery — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:32:56 -0000

Robert - same here on my WordPress powered blog. I usually get none but overnight over 30 spams got through. That's a new record for me. I have very tight controls in place.

This just goes to show how effective Akismet usually is. It has, so far, stopped 22,981 spams for me but the most recent spam stopped was 11:22pm GMT - just over 10 hours ago.

And the spam is still coming through.

Re: Is Akismet down?

Tom Raftery — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:37:09 -0000

I stopped it on my blog now.

I noticed most of the spam comments contained a term (bu***ke - not using the full term in case I fall foul of filters!).

If you add that term to WordPress -> Options -> Discussion -> Comment Blacklist and click update all comments containing that term are nuked. No notification, nothing, gone.

Use with care!!!

Re: Is Akismet down?

Tom Raftery — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 06:19:08 -0000

Akismet seems to be back stopping spam again

Re: Why I’m disappointed with Zune and latest iPods

Tom Raftery — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:21:42 -0000

Robert,

did I miss something? I didn't see anywhere a mention that the Zune will allow you to subscribe to podcasts (audio or video).

Consuming podcasts is all I use my iPod for.

Re: ScobleShow post mortem (wow, Ask blog search rocks!)

Tom Raftery — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:10:48 -0000

On the transcript front, I'd ask PodZinger.

I spoke to them before about it when I interviewed Alex Laats (CEO). They take our content and convert it to indexed text for searching. In return for our content they should email us the transcripts of our shows.

Who to interview? How about Doug Englebart? He's some great stories to tell.

Re: Speaking of linking to other people…

Tom Raftery — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:07:16 -0000

It is cool - but coming from Google, hy is there no Search functionality built-in?

Re: Smart person’s debate of OSX vs. Windows Vista

Tom Raftery — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:25:47 -0000

Oooooh - I'd love to be on the OS X team!

Re: I still love Xbox, TabletPCs, Media Center, Halo, etc.

Tom Raftery — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:15:44 -0000

Windows Live Writer is not bad (apart from the fact that it only runs on Windows!)

Re: Alfred is right: I’m irrelevant to Web 2.0

Tom Raftery — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:28:27 -0000

Robert,

in fairness to Microsoft (EMEA) they invited me to attend. They are paying my flight and accomodation.

I'm not a developer.

There may be other motives afoot.

Anyhoo, looking forward to seeing you in the hallway.

Re: Alfred is right: I’m irrelevant to Web 2.0

Tom Raftery — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:55:43 -0000

Robert, my paltry audience pales in comparison to yours, both in terms of numbers and influence.

No, there's got to be some other reason.

Re: Alfred is right: I’m irrelevant to Web 2.0

Tom Raftery — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:14:16 -0000

Fair enough, you are probably right.

See you next week!

Re: Perspective…

Tom Raftery — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:00:45 -0000

David's death affected me deeply too Robert.

Now, I ask myself every day, what if today is the last day of my life? What do I want to achieve on the last day of my life?

One day, I'll be right.

Re: Who will win TechCrunch 40?

Tom Raftery — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:18:49 -0000

Thanks for the overly kind words about my blog Robert!

I'd be delighted if Pat won this. He has some serious competition but his product offerings are amazing and are doing incredible things to level the playing field on call charges.

Finally international calling and roaming will be affordable to all!

Go Pat! Corcaigh abu!

Re: Caught in Apple restart hell

Tom Raftery — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:07:38 -0000

Hey Robert,

it is unfortunate you had a problem with your update.

I was more lucky. My update to Leopard fixed two issues I had with 10.4 and my update to 10.5.1 fixed a further issue I had so overall I'm delighted with Leopard and this update.

My Vista experience has been awful. Within 10 minutes of running it I found a bug which Microsoft were unaware of! It still runs dog slow (on a new dual core Vaio with 2gb ram) and Microsoft Support gave up trying to fix one of the problems I was having with it. Seriously. They emailed me and said sorry, we can't fix it!

I'm sure by SP2 Vista will be reasonably ok. Leopard though is already fantastic on 10.5.1

Re: Justin.tv watch out

Tom Raftery — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:36:42 -0000

Can it use your wifi connection to send the video or does it have to send over 3g?

Obviously wifi would be waaaay cheaper but I see no mention of it on the website.

Re: What I was using to hit Facebook — unreleased Plaxo Pulse

Tom Raftery — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:42:57 -0000

Does that mean Robert that you successfully got your info out and were then banned. Or did it stop somewhere between the 1800 and the 5000?

Re: Why we’re going to FastCompany.tv

Tom Raftery — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:18:58 -0000

Robert,

that's fantastic news, congrats on the move.

And remember, if Fastcompany are looking for anyone to help you in Europe, I'm in the market for work at the minute(!)

Re: Hanging out with a fast company (emphasis on fast)

Tom Raftery — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:15:58 -0000

Robert, at the DLD conference earlier this year, Shai Agassi, formerly of SAP, unvelied his plan to get Israel completely off oil for transportation within the next 10 years.

It involves electric cars which will be manufactured by Renault/Nissan. The difference with these cars is that you can swap out the battery.

So, when your battery starts to run down, you go to a battery swap station (all gas stations in Israel will become battery swap stations), and swap for a fully charged battery. No downtime waiting for your battery to charge.

This model is fully transportable to other countries. Check out the video explanation at http://www.tomrafteryit.net/shai-agassis-better...

Re: Hanging out with a fast company (emphasis on fast)

Tom Raftery — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:27:58 -0000

Mark, I'd expect no less from Shai Agassi!

Re: Microsoft=Success; Google Docs=Fail?

Tom Raftery — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:03:24 -0000

To my mind, Microsoft's best strategy here would be to build an Office Lite in SilverLight, which saves to the cloud, has rich formatting, and allows multiple editors like Google Docs.

Microsoft currently own the office space but Google are starting to eat into their marketshare.

If Microsoft had a good offering in this space, with their brand and marketing reach they would quickly own it. They should have a freemium model on it with basic functionality free, and more advanced for $25 p.a., for instance.

Re: Blog Party

Tom Raftery — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:40:22 -0000

Unfortunately I won't be able to make it. Does the market Bar have WiFi and will anyone be blogging the event live?

Tom

Re: Enterprise Ireland Web2.0 Event in Dublin

Tom Raftery — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:27:15 -0000

Excellent - any more details?

it@cork are holding a Web 2.0 mini conference on June 8th.
Confirmed speakers so far include:
Salim Ismail - founder of PubSub
Shel Israel - co-author with Robert Scoble of naked Conversations and currently writing a book on Web 2.0
Fergus Burns - Founder and CEO of Nooked
Microsoft have promised to send a speaker (and to sponsor)
Google and Yahoo! are currently firming up their level of involvement as well.

Another one for the calendar!

Re: Judy Gibbons at the Enterprise Ireland Web 2.0 event at PodLeaders – Thought Leaders podcast

Tom Raftery — Wed, 03 May 2006 11:56:01 -0000

Thanks for the kind words (and the link!).

Tom

Re: Winner of the Web2Expo Berlin Tickets

Tom Raftery — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:28:03 -0000

Well done Alan.

I'm heading over to give a talk there.

Re: Upcoming events @ web2Ireland scene

Tom Raftery — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:20:42 -0000

I know I hardly rank up there with Anthony Williams et al but thought I'd mention that I am speaking at both the Irish Web Technology conference and the ISA conference!

Re: Upcoming events @ web2Ireland scene

Tom Raftery — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:27:22 -0000

Oh, and I am co-chair (one of the organisers) of BlogTalk 2008!

Re: Vote on your favourite logo for Web2Ireland

Tom Raftery — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:01:12 -0000

Ah now lads - in fairness any of those logos are better than anything I'd come up with.

I do agree though that a None of the above option should be included with the poll.

Re: Announcing Web2Ireland €10m seed fund

Tom Raftery — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:13:16 -0000

Have a great April Fool's day everyone - don't get caught out by too many unlikely announcements!

Re: Irish food producers and the Cluetrain Manifesto

Tom Raftery — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:38:11 -0000

Conor, thanks for the link and the kind words. Tom.

Re: Some Podcasting Musings on Friday Night

Tom Raftery — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:03:44 -0000

Re: Some Podcasting Musings on Friday Night

Tom Raftery — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:03:44 -0000