Make Money Feeding iPods
July 24, 2006
This one straight out of Dane Carlon’s blog tells of an entrepreneuring idea helping people put music on their iPods. You’ve heard all about them, you want one, haven’t a clue how to use it or get your hundreds of cd’s onto the damn thing. Well, now for $1.75 a cd for the first 50 with Hungrypod you can have your entire cd collection picked up and transferred onto an iPod and delivered right back to you….
Where there’s a demand, there’s always someone hiding!
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Wrote Blog, Got Fired.
July 21, 2006
Interesting one this. An English secretary, Catherine, whose surname remains private and blogs under the guise of ‘Petite Anglaise’ is taking a test case to French court under French Labour Law after allegedly getting the sack over the writings of her anonymous blog detailing her life in Paris. Anonymous in every regard bar the use of her photo on the blog, which the company now feel identifies her, identifies who she works for and has lead to her discharge under gross misconduct.
Read on at her own blog, or check the Telegraph article from earlier in the week.
Irish Bloggers Like Porn
July 21, 2006
Or at least people using IrishBlogs.ie do as this picture might show from a visit to the site this morning. Whats the story there eh? Now I could be wrong, and maybe its just Big Brother that people have a real interest in. Big what now?
12 Million Blog, 57 Million Read (US)
July 20, 2006
Via Xinhua…
12 million Americans keep a computer log and share it with the world while about 57 million Americans read these blogs, or Web journals, most of which detail everyday experiences, the Washington-based nonprofit Pew Internet & American Life Project revealed on Thursday.
The study, Pew’s most extensive yet of blogging, found that both the number of bloggers and the number of blog readers have quadrupled during the past four years, said Amanda Lenhart, senior research assistant and author of the Pew study
Nice to see that the ole blogosphere is still going.
Happy Birthday To Us
July 19, 2006
According to the business certificate here in the office, we’re officially one year old, so happy birthday to us! The fact that I’ve still got a job and there’s now three of us working here I would consider a good thing. Maybe now we can afford those blank cd’s we’ve been meaning to order all week….
Planning for the business had started a long time and really got frantic about two months before we kicked off last July (of course at 22 years old you still wonder are you a bit mad) but I think that after 12 months we’re exactly where we had really hoped to be if not better - can’t be going too bad!
My other little baby, Kilkenny Music, is also heading for its first birthday this coming September so no doubt there’ll be a wee party there as that has developed quite quickly in itself! All I need now is for Devious Theatre (that baby is just 2 months old so we’ve a bit to go yet) to hit the headlines and we’re all set.
But you know what? I love every minute of it - wouldn’t trade the design, the music, or the theatre for anything. Mind you, I’ve no idea where the last 12 months have gone….! It might come back to me after a celebratory pint and a steak tomorrow night 
Adobe Lightroom Windows Beta
July 18, 2006
Happy days for the photographers among us as Adobe have finally launched a Windows beta of Lightroom, previously only available on the Mac.
Lightroom and Aperture are designed to handle photographs taken in the “raw” formats available on higher-end digital cameras. Raw images preserve more detail because they’re pulled directly off a camera’s image sensor; some of that information is lost in typical cameras when they convert that data into more convenient JPEG files.
Although raw images can be better adjusted for exposure, color balance and other qualities, they bring a profusion of new options for the image-editing process. In effect, raw images must be “developed” into the more convenient formats before they can be used.
While I’m only recently getting used to shooting in RAW and its benefits, I’m looking forward to tackling this. Not a full replacement for Photoshop by any means but if it makes the mess on my hard drive any way tidier then I’m all for it!
And Up Goes The Page Rank
July 17, 2006
So after a long haul, kenmc.com has risen to a page rank of four. Just noticed that over the weekend courtesy of an email from Text Link Ads kindly notifying me to the fact that I had now been accepted to the program, having been rejected a few months back for a low popularity.
So a quick check today, and World Cup Access is firmly on a PR of 4 about 6-7 weeks after the registration of its domain name, having had no posting activity really in the last week so I think I’ve reached the result of my test.
While I wanted to blog about the World Cup (and now blog about Liverpool), I also wanted to see just how quickly your Google PR could rise in a short amount of time. And there you have it, “up 4 places in this weeks chart to 4/10″. Now all I have to do is wait another 4 years, hope it doesn’t go down, then try crack it a little bit higher.
Creative Links for 2006-07-12
July 12, 2006
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“Images can be use to increase our click through rate. You can add image next to your adsense to increase your Click Through Rate. Is it legal? Yes, but you have to add line to separate your image to adsense. Even google do this way to their new adsense f(tags: adsense)
Bebo Bands Launches
July 11, 2006
Pity I had to pick up on this on the KilkennyMusic.com forums first but there you go… Bebo Bands has launched and is now accepted signups for bands.
It won’t be the crazy place that is MySpace but they are also allowing bands to upload their own music, provided of course that you own the copyright for it - uploading any copyrighted music will result in your band account and your own Bebo account being suspended. Fair play.
If you’re in a band, hop on over to Bebo Bands…
Red Paper Clip For A House
July 11, 2006
Exactly a year to the day since he started his adventure to trade one red paperclip for a house, it looks like Kyle MacDonald has finally accomplished his goal and looks set to pick up his house tomorrow.
Kinda takes the power of the internet and media to new levels…. Think you could walk into your local Sherry Fitz and start that conversation…
“I don’t suppose there’s any chance….”
