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“Think Tom Waits followed by Dutch Uncles followed by The Blades at lunchtime.”

Crikey.

8Radio.com

Brainchild of Simon Maher, formerly general manager of Phantom 105.2.

He writes:

I’ve been asking people what they listen to for a year now and so many people have deserted traditional radio altogether which is a great shame.

People still love music though so they have replaced their terrestrial radio listening with online radio/spotify/deezer and their own playlists which are by their nature a bit less structured than traditional radio.

So, when we started putting the music for 8Radio together, we have gone for a much more random selection.

The 8Radio philosophy is simple – we play the music we like. Everything from 80s synth pop to brand new Irish and international gems to 70s post-punk. If the song is good, we will play it

 

8Radio.com

 

No cash, favours, ‘slow song requests were given for this post

ABM and Sido slug it out while Frilly reads on (posed by models)

John Buckley writes:

Deadly video and tune from Spunout.ie in relation to Safer Internet Day [tomorrow] that shows the reality of trolling and bullying for adults.

 

Starring: Louise McLoughlin, George Hooker and Mark Holland; Music: Color//Sound – “Better Off Without You”; Producer: Mark Holland.

 

Spunout.ie

I Love The Internet

By Kevin Barrington

Opium to DeQuincy
Sin to Milton
Congo to Conrad
Aran to Synge

I love the internet

Castles to Shakespeare
Deceit to LeCarre
Dublin to Joyce
Marketplace to Chaucer

Did we say
‘Daffodils to Wordsworth?’
We couldn’t forget that.
Or mounted jihad to Tennyson
Or the weird wild wonder
of the whole god damn show
to Dylan

I love the internet

Wild, lewd, bawdy, bullying, smelling of cats.
Cranks, crank, meth, conspiracy, snipers, knoll.
Fascists made cartoon on ripe digital soil.
Erudite waltzing with trite.
In eternal ballroom
Dedicated skiers on seas of trivial loon.
Self help soma screaming thinnin tv hair repair.
And always the smiles of the filippino brides
And promises of untold nigerian riches.
Flashing wheel spinning ace poker squared
You Have Been Chosen
But
Shhhhhhh
Somewhere down there in the fly fishing section
the first faint whispers
(If ears are right)
of hushed talk
of
bold revolution.

I love the internet
The sheer
dull
scintillating
infantile
anarchy
of
it
all.

Boisterous Brughel medieval market.
Futuristic Middle Ages
Directed
by
Friar Tuck.
And offset, whispers
of
Robin
lurking
in
wood.

I love the internet.
Cos it’s ours.

Kevin’s Blog

Online First As Blogger Apologises To Ganley Over Tweets (Gemma O’Doherty, irish Independent)

Syria has gone offline.

Just as rebel forces are reportedly making huge advances on Assad territory.

From renesys.com:

Starting at 10:26 UTC (12:26pm in Damascus), Syria’s international Internet connectivity shut down. In the global routing table, all 84 of Syria’s IP address blocks have become unreachable, effectively removing the country from the Internet.

 

Syrian Internet Is Off The Air, Renesys Blog

 

 

 

STATE INVESTMENT of about €200 million along with matching funds from private telecom companies will be required as part of a national broadband plan to be launched today.

The plan will be focused on smaller urban centres and rural areas. More than 40 per cent of Irish homes already have access to very fast broadband – but they are centred in the major urban areas.

State aid clearance by the European Commission will almost certainly be required, in order to guarantee that public funds are not substituting for potential private sector investment.

Quick! Spend it before they tell us we can’t afford it.

State investment of €200m required for broadband plan (Deaglán de Bréadún, Irish Times)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)