… And perhaps one of the best in some time.
Well done to Damien who’s stat counter has been working over time as a result of his rather enjoyable “How to use Google to get a girl and get laid” post. First it was 18,000 hits in a day, now it’s nearly 30,000; I bet those Blacknight servers are praying BoingBoing doesn’t get a whiff of this and cause complete mayhem!
In other good news Conn Ó Muíneacháin has announced that he will have a new Irish language radio show on Flirt FM, Galway (and probably elsewhere) revolving around social networking tools. This is one of those rare occassions where a podcaster moves into the mainstream media but if anyone in Ireland was going to do it it was always going to be Conn. the show sounds quite interesting; it will be broadcast on radio, via podcast have its own blog, wiki, mailing list and possibly bulletin board too. What’s even cooler is that it will be (part)funded by the BCI Sound and Vision scheme which makes Conn the first podcaster to recieve licence fee funding! Another well done there (do you know how hard it was to not say CONNgratulations? Oh, damn).
Update: As Annette points out in the comments the Irish blog community also featured on Saturday with Susan McReynolds; the show can be found here (Realplayer link, starts around the 41st minute) and it features Damien Mulley, Cian O’Flaherty (starts at 1 hour 25 minutes), Annette Clancey and Claire Wilson discussing their blogs, blogging in Ireland and the effect it has had in their lives and the wider world.
The Irish blogging community has certainly had a good year in 2006 so far for numerous reasons and hopefully things can only get better as we make our way through the second half and beyond.