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Judith Goldberger writes:

Robert Scoble,  (for it is he), is going dark on social media. Here is Silicon Valley this is huge news: he’s a lovable rogue, a teddy bear, your best friend, your tech advisor, your digital analyst for all things tech. And more We wish him well on the road to serenity and sobriety.

Yet, BS readers might be interested to read about the Dublin Web Summit angle:

“Late last year that life started to catch up with him. In November, after returning from a booze-filled trip to the Dublin Web Summit, Scoble announced on Facebook that he’d been sexually abused as a teenager.

More recently, Scoble announced that he had cancer, on his nose. He found this out just as he was about to begin a weekend-long party celebrating his 50th birthday at a winery in Napa.

A few days after the party, Scoble announced that he was an alcoholic and had started going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.”

SO, at a time when there needs to be a mature discussion about alcoholism generally in Irish society, and in the Irish tech industry too, I wonder will the Web Summit respond with less boozy entertainment that we saw at the Night Summit last year? The role of alcohol is militating against diversity cannot be discounted either. What woman wants to hang about with a bunch of tanked up male programmers and startup loud mouths?

READ ON: Robert Scoble In Recovery, Going Dark On Social For Two Months (Gawker)

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Derek Haughton writes:

“Watching Sunday nights US episode of Silicon Valley. The Hooli group were at (supposed) TechCrunch disrupt 2014 in San Fran and this banner was shown. It was actually kind of shown for no real reason. More like a product placement. The real disrupt is in New York in September. Anyone any info?”

Tierneyy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5811gcau_Y

[2013 Lord Mayor of Dublin Naoise O’Muiri and a delegation, including former Dublin City Manager and current managing director of Irish Water John Tierney, speak with Sean O’Kane, marketing manager with ChipEstimate TV during a trip to Silicon Valley last year]

“This video has emerged of the former Lord Mayor of Dublin, Fine Gael’s Naoise O’Muiri, behaving rather strangely whilst visiting the marketing director of a Silicon Valley technology company during the annual Lord Mayor visit to San Jose in March 2013.”

“… ‘That trip cost €9,953 for the travel and accommodation of the Lord Mayor himself and two other councillors we see in the video, Fine Gael’s Ruairi McGinley and the Labour Party’s Lucy McRoberts. Did this money come out of the Lord Mayor’s €15,318.36 quarterly allowance or was this money on top of that?

“… Really, what value did we the people receive from that junket to San Jose in March 2013?”

A statement from John Lyons of People Before Profit

Anyone?

Also: FIGHT!

Thanks Damien Mulley

Jordan2Sup?

“Jordan Casey (above), a 13-year-old from Waterford who taught himself how to write code and who at 12 was one of the youngest entrepreneurs to publish an app in the App Store, is to speak at the prestigious 20th TiEcon conference in California where he will impart the lessons of a CEO to the CEOs of LinkedIn, Amazon, Netfix, PayPal and many others.”

 

Fair play, in fairness.

13-year-old Irish coder and CEO to address the titans of Silicon Valley (Silicon Republic)

Pic: Gamevicio