Yearly Archives: 2014

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Read more tweets from the meeting here

Pic: Alan Owens

Earlier: City of Culture Protest

Cut The Rap

UPDATE:

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FURTHER UPDATE:

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NEW UPDATE:

From RTÉ’s Nine O’Clock News earlier:

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By John Moynes

First we admit that we are powerless over literature, that our lives have become meaningless.

Then we came to believe that only a power greater than ourselves could restore us to clarity.

And so we decided to turn ourselves over to the care of an editor, as we understand them.

We made a searching and fearless inventory of our vocabulary.

We admitted to our editor, to our ourselves and to another poet the exact nature of our typos.

We prepared our poems for submission.

We humbly asked our editor to remove our clichés.

We made lists of all persons we had harmed.

We wrote verses of apology to our victims.

We continued to draft, redraft and start to write again.

We sought through reading and reciting to improve our conscious contact with Heaney, Joyce and Yeats as we understand them.

Having had a literary awakening as the result of these steps, we went to Grogan’s, and told everybody.

Pic: DublinStreets

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Youth group SpunOut.ie are running a photography and film-making workshop TOMORROW for 20 young people around Dublin, as part of the mental health arts festival, First Fortnight.

After the workshop, the group will hit the streets, take ‘selfies’ and make a music video focusing on positive mental health messages.

And here’s where YOU come in.

SpunOut’s John Buckley writes:

“As part of this we want people be spread some positive messages about mental health by sharing a selfie, but with a message about positive mental health. So what helps them get through tough times or just keep happy.

What you can do…

1. Think of a positive message about mental health.
2. Jot it down on a piece of paper
3. Take your phone
4. Point camera at your face
5. Lift up the positive mental health message
6. Pull ‘duck face’.
7. Take photo
8. Upload to Instragram, Facebook, Twitter with the hashtags #FFfest14 #SpunOutSelfie

More details here

Thanks John

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Jaysus.

John Gallen writes:

Salthill, Galway’s promenade this afternoon…. check out the lifeguard’s steel cabin… blown in and rolled about 30 metres!

Pics:  Donal Gallen

Meanwhile…

BFLku7_CAAAQ51x.jpg-large[Karl at the Science Gallery in March last year]

The figures for Broadsheet in 2013 have been ‘totted up’.

Karl saw a…

4.9% INCREASE in visits to 13.8 million
5% DROP in unique visitors to 2.9 million
6.5% RISE in pageviews to 30.1 million

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Browsers

Chrome continues to be the dominant browser choice with 39% (up 6%) of users. Firefox stays in second place with 17.6% (down 4%), Safari takes third with 15.9% (down 0.1%) taking Internet Explorer’s place which now has 14.9% (down 2.9%).

iOS still accounts for 2/3rds of the mobile browser traffic to the site and Android taking most of the rest. The big winner though is Windows Phone from which pageviews exploded by 648% (for a total of 2.4% of the mobile traffic).

Apps

This year saw the release of an updated iOS app as well as new Android and Windows Phone apps. There were 8,522 downloads on iOS (for about 30K total) and 4,654 on Android. From that, there’s between 2,500 and 3,000 active users a day producing 2.5 million sessions and 15 million screen views between them. It very much seems like people dip in and out of the apps a few times a day.

Thanks all.

Broadsheet Yearly Stats 3: We’re getting a bit old in the tooth now (Karl Monaghan)

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Barry H writes:

You know the recession is over when estate agents are buying their own properties. This (above) is the former Xtravision store on Upper Baggot Street..

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Newly-opened Appleton Property, in Kilcullen village, Co. Kildare today.

(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)