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It’s a Little Bit Funny

Somewhat randomly, on a competition post , a regular Culch.ie reader, Peter, asked if there was any decent places for comedy in Dublin to bring a bunch of colleagues for a work night out he was arranging. So, I asked the Twitterverse .
I immediately got a few great suggestions from @pixievondust , @amylong [...]

Broken Spine #22 – Unbroken Spine

Something different for this instalment of Broken Spine. As you may have read, today is World Book Day, a celebration of reading. A lot of us are avid readers, and make our way through many books each month. However, with so many books out there, it’s hard to find the right ones. Previous editions of [...]

Our Music World – The Brits, The Machines, The Hendrix

Rage Against The Machine have announced they will play The 02 this June. The alternative rock band have confirmed a June 8th gig in Dublin, 2 days after their “X Factor victory gig” in London’s Finsbury Park on June 6th. It’s the band’s first Irish gig since their set at Oxegen 08. Sure to be [...]

@VodafoneUK seeks weekend company, new job.

Whoops. @VodafoneUK is going to be in the news for all the wrong reasons tomorrow. Stupid thing to say anyway, but probably the end of Twitter guy’s pay packet.
Via A Hitchiker’s Guide .

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WWII POW tweets his prison diary

World War II veteran PrivateDRyan is tweeting excerpts from the diary he kept as a POW in Poland. He’ll also be posting images and audio on his Tumblr . Should be fascinating.
Follow him on Twitter and on Tumblr .

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Chat and IM: A guide to what’s out there.

So we all like the chat, who doesn’t, but how do you chat?
If you’re like a lot of people who have been on the internet for a long time you use the Standard chat Clients, the one’s that have been around for years.
Like these:
 

Windows Live Messenger: AKA : MSN
MSN as many people still call it [...]

Twitter Kris Kindle

Interested in participating in a Twitter kris kindle this year?
The plan is to buy a €10 gift for another tweeter and keep it secret until it arrives; or you can choose not to reveal yourself at all.
Tweeters based outside of Ireland are welcome to join in. It will be luck of the draw where you [...]

Cool but Ultimately Pointless – Social Media comes home

After all the hype in the last few weeks about Facebook and Twitter integration coming to Xbox 360 it finally happened yesterday. Today Sony has launched a firmware upgrade to 3.10, which will allow Facebook trophy and game sync support. So Microsoft’s great coup lasted all of one day? Nice.

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Was Paris Hilton in Dublin yesterday? Twitterers seem to think so…

It certainly seems so. Good friend of mine tweeted this yesterday…

It was followed up by this tweet

and there were a couple of shots taken of Paris Hilton in Weirs , the big jewellery shop on Grafton Street, outside BT2 and generally making her mark on the south side…

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Twitter Shows Its Nasty Side

It seems that the Daddy of Twitter, Stephen Fry has decided to quit the Tweeting citing “too much aggression and unkindness” as the cause for his departure.
Fry has caused a kerfuffle on the micro-blogging site leading to finger pointing and cries for the famous  presenter, writer, pod-caster, actor, academic not to abandon his [...]

Want to know how to quit twitter? Do what Miley Cyrus did.

Like OMG, seriously?
Good girl Hannah Montana Miley Cyrus. Quit twitter in an effort to keep “her private life private“, because she is done “trying to please” and all of that by posting a video – and on a particularly good one – on You Tube . As you do.

I loved Chris Matyszczyk’s take on it [...]

Blaney’s Blarney Order

Everyone from the local fruit & veg shop to the Barrack Obama uses Twitter these days and now the Court Systems appear to be jumping on the band-wagon.
London High Court have made an unprecedented ruling by allowing a defendant in a case to be served with an injunction via micro-blogging site Twitter.

The order is [...]

The top 10 twitter users in Ireland based on number of followers

I’ll admit I’m addicted to twitter and so found this worth posting here. It just popped up onto my twitter radar – the top 10 twitter users of each country based on number of followers, over at Techxav.com .
Apparently they’ve compiled this using both Twitterholic and Twitterscore.net , but also searched out people by [...]

“Because you should see something awesome and musical every day”

This is AWESOME!

( found via – @michaelsheen on Twitter)

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Screencheck at Soundcheck #asyouwish

When I heard about the launch of Screencheck I was delighted. Watching a movie with friends and having a couple of drinks and the opportunity to talk about it? Brilliant. The fact they’re bringing the Princess Bride to screen tonight is even better.
Free admission. Free popcorn provided. Grab a cocktail, throw yourself on [...]

OMG They’ve Killed Twitter

Isn’t it funny that it’s only when you can’t have something that you really want it?
Twitter has been off-line this afternoon after a malicious cyber-attack on its systems.

“On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack,” Twitter executive Biz Stone said in an official company blog.

“Attacks such as [...]

The Princess Bride Twitter night. August 13. 8pm. #asyouwish

When Damien asked me to keep the 13 free for “something”, I knew that it was probably going to be interesting. All would be revealed by post he said. And yes, yes it was. This arrived in the post this morning:

And it’s all to do with this:
If you’re interested, a few of us [...]

Two Sheets to the Wind: Top Five Tearjerkers

I‘m not afraid to cry. Honestly. This week we decided to look at the movies that made us cry like babies. Well, maybe not cry, but certainly well up a bit.
On Twitter , I asked people to suggest what films make them blubber. There was an abundance of Notebooks, ETs and Terms of Endearment, but [...]

The Man In The Mirror 1959-2009

Last night, the news of Jacko’s demise spread at the speed of Twitter (11 mph faster than the speed of sound). 18 minutes after the confirmation of the death of The King of Pop I sat at the train station sans broadband connection and therefore totally cut off from the world. I watched in curious [...]

All just a little bit of history repeating

From Pictures for Sad Children . (via @cianomahony )
It was pretty amazing, wasn’t it? I was on the 39 home, having left Anto, Darren and Gary with their pints and chatter and the news he had died suddenly filled my twitter stream. Tweet after tweet, line after line. “OMG Michael Jackson’s dead” and the like. [...]