antoin@eire.com

Mobile phone services are bringing us back to the age of the green screen. Who would have thought five years ago that customers would be using a numeric keypad to send text-based commands to order content, check balances and even buy things?
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We have a problem with rural post offices in Ireland. They serve an important social purpose, but they lose too much money.
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Joi Ito links to this rather funny sequence of photos. The location appears to be in Ireland. But can anybody say where exactly?

Loads of people I talk to really want to get their own weblogs, but they don’t have the time or the technical knowledge to get things up and running for themselves. Wouldn’t it be great if they could get a little help?
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Jaume Maza, who worked in Bewleys Grafton Street for eight months comments on my earlier article on the subject. Jaume reckons it all went pear-shaped when they decided to cut the all-day breakfast.
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A few months ago I publsihed an article about postcodes in Ireland. (Ireland is the last country in the European Union that doesn’t have a postcode). That work is still proceeding.
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I went to see The Corporation on Tuesday. It’s a bit like Fox News. On the surface it’s interesting and it professes to tell an important story. In reality, it’s just a thin veneer designed to attract a certain type of audience and win a certain type of acclaim.
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Steve Hedley is speakingin TCD tomorrow, Tuesday 2 November, on the topic of ‘What can the law do about spam?’ Minister of State Tom Kitt (who has responsibility for the Information Society) will also be there making some opening remarks.
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