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James Corballis writes:

This day last week I hurriedly posted a video of my cat to YouTube in order to share with my friends on Facebook.
I went out to work that afternoon and my phone never stopped buzzing with emails all night. It was only then that I realised it had gone viral.
A week later, I now have a theory that this could be the most viral Irish video ever…. (as in fastest growing, not most views). The closest I can come up with is The Rubberbandits’ Horse Outside video which received 530,000 views in 72 hours…. In 72 hours, my video received 1,018,445.
It is currently getting over 10,000 views an hour.
At the time of writing the view count is 1,949,000. I’m still in shock. I’m sure there might be others though that I’ve overlooked?

Anyone?

Hidden Highways playing In Defence of Magpies at the Stag’s Head Raw, Dame Court, Dublin..

Barry writes:

This week it’s the Stags Head Raw Christmas Party and we are delighted to announce that playing will be Hidden Highways, Slow Skies, The Brand New Switcheroo and Norabelle. Being the time of year that’s in it, Norabelle have very generously offered a wee pressie of a copy of their very wonderful album, Wren, to the first 20 people through the doors. That’s in addition to the mince pies, mulled wine (at pre budget prices) and other festive fare.”

Sunday 8pm. €8

Stag’s head Raw (Facebook)

Meanwhile, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the decisions taken in the Budget were in the long-term interests of Ireland.

Ministers defend Budget Cuts (Irish Times)

NC writes:

But that’s not what the Government is going to do with its €3.5bn? They are going to take it out of your pocket and give it to Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Limited, IBRC. That’s the company created to wind down the assets and liabilities of the former Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society, INBS.

Screwing  over innocent people to pay off banking debt certainly isn’t in the long-term interests of Ireland.

Related: Stephen Donnelly: It’s Time To-shout Stop Over This Economic Lunacy (Sunday Independent)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7P0dmV_AXM

We like Redwind Software.

On top of being the only company we know of that is using Job Bridge properly, they also really are at the forefront of the much touted ‘smart economy’.

This week they launched their latest game Draw-it, Push-it.

It’s a Pictionary style game where you use the iPad to draw your word and the other players buzz in using their iPhones/iPod touches.

This is the first game of its kind in the Apple App Store making it a pretty impressive  technical achievement by this small indie developer.

Okay, so you inevitably end up with the usual sweary/shouty slagging match as people accuse you of drawing badly and you must have an iPad and 2 iPhones to play but once you’re over these hurdles it’s a devilishly fun game to play.

In fact you could say we’re strangely drawn.

Drawn.

Nevermind

Redwind Software – Draw-It, Push-It

Draw-it, Push-it

Push-it

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In the fast paced world of modern media, it is inevitable that mistakes will be made.

Lord Justice Leveson’s report into the British media paints a grim picture of corruption, bullying, crime and an entire industry divorced from the very concept of morality.

However, sometimes the very speed of online publishing causes mistakes to be made innocently. While no website can be wholly free from error, all must correct their own mistakes, and must apologise in public for them.

An internal investigation has concluded that on December 4 Ewok posted a picture of a scone which, it was claimed, looked like Ireland. The scone did not, in fact, look like Ireland.

Here at Broadsheet we are proud of our long-standing commitment to highlighting unspecified things that look recognisably like Ireland. We apologise for the annoyance and any navigational errors caused by our cartographically-inaccurate bun.

You may have heard Fine Gael TD James Bannon‘s Dail speech last night.

Here’s a flava:

One could perhaps call the revelations about Savita’s death coincidental, but the resultant media outbursts and overwrought reactions seem too opportunistic for that. From being a weapon to try to force the Government’s hand, I hope that calm will prevail and that this report will be assessed and viewed in an independent light. However, I am anxious that any legislation should not be rushed through in a knee-jerk reaction to the report, the death of Savita and the other matters that are impacting on it.

Having had major reservations about the timing of the news of Savita’s death, the publication of which came as a shock and surprise to her family, the fact that there is now a question mark over some of the reporting of the facts of the case only serves to add credence to the opportunism of the exposure of this tragic death. I am shocked to read that the sequence of events may have been at least muddled but, at worst, distorted. That what was reported or not reported, whatever way one looks at it, prompted a recent independent inquiry into the death of Savita, was inexcusable.

…We have come a long way in this country since the days when a husband would be told in the same breath that his wife had died and that he had a beautiful baby girl or boy. The reality was often indescribably tragic. A family might already consist of six or more children who would be left without a mother and a grieving husband without a wife. Sense has prevailed and directed our actions. I hope that will continue to be the case.

Dail debate: Expert Group (Oireachtas.ie)

LB writes:

Breathtaking. I had to remind myself this isn’t Ireland of the 1950s. He explicitly implies that the exposure of Savita’s death was “opportunistic”. Maybe it’s just the way he was ‘braw hup”. He also expresses his admiration for Hillary Clinton in his 2011 campaign video. Now that’s just a tiny bit ironic.

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