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Ciaran le Cool writes:

Le Cool & Pilcrow have hi-jacked four of the  [Dublin Web] Summit’s most exciting speakers for pop up talks in the city centre. In the Library Project in Temple Bar Jimmy Maymann, CEO of The Huffington Post, and Baratunde Thurston, former Director of Digital of The Onion, will be talking global media companies while in The Stag’s Head, Dame Court, Dublin.  Cindy Gallop of MakeLoveNotPorn and Harper Reed, Obama’s chief tech officer, will teach us about crowd-sourcing and cloud-computing and the importance of women in tech. All proceeds towards Movember.

 

Details here

90318855The Web Summit.

Like the old Spring Show but with less agricultural equipment and more sheep.

Dan writes:

The Web Summit, happening today and tomorrow in Dublin, has grown in significance since it’s beginning four years ago. It has ridden the ever increasing wave of start up and founder culture, bleeding ceaselessly from Palo Alto into the rest of the western world. I’m a software engineer working in Dublin, and this is what I think of it.

Hundreds of people from all over the world doing their level best to make you a product.

They are doing great things in ‘analytics’ amazing things in ‘user connections’ they are improving companies ‘reach’.

It is a culture of hope, keeping people locked in , alone, staring into a glowing screen, telling you you’re being ‘social’, monetizing your loneliness. If you are not looking at a screen you are not generating revenue.

‘We are in the business of creating Social Experience’, as he pointed me toward a stand advertising an online betting platform. Meanwhile, I just received an email from from yourfriends@medium.com. My friends?

Creating social anxiety, tagging people you used to know in pictures enjoying themselves in places you used to go to. Helping people connect by slowly cutting you off from them. Creating a whole new social consciousness, judging status updates, judging status, judging.

Robbing children of the ability to develop empathy. Hampering development, designing cool, destroying the alternative.

Ensuring that a deeper reading is impossible, in Ruby, written in Five days! Only 140 characters! Brevity is the soul of misinformation.

VC’s and executives walking around filling smaller companies with hope while just robbing features for their own proprietary products. Glorifying being obsessed with work, talking about drive and ambition, getting young companies into debt. Saying ‘Guys’ a lot, saying ‘Sharing’ a lot. The Camembert Quartet. IPO, monetize strategy, get rich quick.

They still listen to The Fall.

Why? Why is the RDS full of people, why are tickets €995? Money, because money is cool. Making a lot of it really quickly by building hopelessly trivial applications on technology with the power to change the world, is cool.

The Taoiseach just opened the NASDAQ on the main stage.

It’s not money, we’re interested in, you fool! It’s innovation!

Squandering the greatest technological achievements of our age by perpetuating the creation of superfluous applications built only to farm your data and sell it to advertisers. De-humanizing you. You are now consumer and product in a weird circular process eating itself, perpetuating itself, achieving nothing.

Our hospitals don’t work, has anyone seen the Irish PAS system? Our schools are underfunded and overcrowded, has anyone seen the e-portal rolled out to schools this year? Society needs technologists, because technology can improve people’s lives. Technologists are selling people’s lives. Your  tastes, your economic status, your commute, it’s all our commodity. Google Glass. Nothing that matters is getting better, it’s just getting worse.

Waiting lists, illiteracy rates, obesity.

Share that. Have a conference on that.

One day you will sit in the pub and your friends and instead of making observations in life, listening to others, talking about that movie you loved or recommending a book or just listening to someone’s problems, instead of helping someone by just fucking sitting there and listening to them, you’ll be talking about your companies second quarter performance. If you think that’s hyperbole, visit Palo Alto.

FIGHT!

The Dublin Web Summit or How We Destroy Everything (Dan)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

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At the ringing of the NASDAQ bell [by Enda Kenny] at the Web Summit in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin  moments ago.

Thanks Kevin Whitty and Andrea Henry

Update:

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nasdaqbellsTop: Enda Kenny horrifically fistbumps Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave and above de bell. de bell.

Pics: Emily

BX1Ek05IAAAsjt4Times Square, New York this morning.

Thanks Maria Breen

1392044_10151679152747447_1296338448_nA preview of new work from Canvaz.

He writes:

These are commissions for IDA {Dublin] web-summit founders events taking place tonight. This series of paintings draws on Ireland’s rich culture of history and tradition. The format pays homage to the strong tradition of innovation & craftsmanship, in this instance the stained glass tradition. The pieces reference Ireland’s more recent history and hope for the future, with the elements reaching from darkness to light with a modern interpretation of the traditional Legend of the Children of Lir returning from exile to their homeland…

 

Canvaz (Facebook)

webEmily’s double coffee and credentials at this morning’s Dublin Web Summit at the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin. Emily will be reporting (and taking images) at the two-day tech event and looking for ‘angel’ investors to ‘shake down’.

More as Emily gets it.

Technology leaders arrive for Web Summit (RTE)

Web Summit 2013 preview: What to expect in Dublin (ITProPortal)

Update:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2YpJPG2auE&feature=youtu.be

Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave, top, and the Camembert Quartet at the RDS this morning and video from last night.

wheelA heavily credentialed Emily at Moo.com’s ‘Wheel of Fortune’.