Quantified Self Europe Review

One of the first things I dis­covered this past week­end in Ams­ter­dam at the first ever Quan­ti­fied Self Europe con­fer­ence is that I clearly do a bad job explain­ing what QS is. When asked why I obsess­ively track things in my life like sleep pat­terns, exer­cise habits, food intake, skin con­di­tion, and oth­ers, I usu­ally …

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November 29, 2011 – 00:58 | By martha | Posted in Personal | Tagged | Comments (8)

Exciting Idea Magazine Addition: Help with Hiring

If you’ve tried hir­ing people in the tech industry lately, you know what a tough and com­pet­it­ive mar­ket it is right now. Idea Magazine wants to help. Today we’re open­ing up a lim­ited amount of job list­ings for our inaug­ural issue launch­ing Decem­ber 8th. We’re not inter­ested in post­ing bulk ads with hid­den com­pany names. We’re not …

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November 25, 2011 – 15:11 | By martha | Posted in Idea Magazine | Tagged , | Comments Off

Tuesday Newsday: Audio News Apps

When talk­ing about digital news apps, we often don’t think out­side the walls of writ­ten con­tent. How­ever radio and audio applic­a­tions also deliver news, stor­ies and enter­tain­ment to large audi­ences. There are excel­lent pod­casts in almost every cat­egory and their pop­ular­ity is grow­ing con­stantly. Why would someone choose to listen to audio news instead of …

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November 16, 2011 – 18:30 | By martha | Posted in News/Magazines | Tagged , | Comments Off

A New Idea

For a place with such an amaz­ing tech com­munity of developers, design­ers, star­tups, entre­pren­eurs and just plain “do-ers”, it’s shock­ingly hard to know what’s going on all the time with the Irish tech­no­logy scene. The most effect­ive way to find out about inter­est­ing star­tups, new tech­no­lo­gies, cool design stu­dios, great places to work, upcom­ing events, …

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November 8, 2011 – 15:23 | By martha | Posted in Technology | Tagged , | Comments (5)

Tuesday Newsday: Newspaper Developer Blogs

A com­mon trait of suc­cess­ful online news and magazine sites is, sur­pris­ingly, a developer blog. Think of a developer blog as a look into the minds of the people build­ing the site: what lim­it­a­tions they have, what they’re work­ing on, what they believe their read­ers want or need, suc­cess stor­ies of how they built inter­est­ing …

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November 1, 2011 – 19:46 | By martha | Posted in News/Magazines | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)

Tuesday Newsday: Facebook News Apps

In the last month we’ve had some news sources try­ing an uncon­ven­tional method of reach­ing new audi­ences: Face­book. “Go where your read­ers live” is the mes­sage of news applic­a­tions within Face­book, and there is cer­tainly no short­age of people who spend a sig­ni­fic­ant amount of time check­ing in on Face­book through­out the day, whether it …

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October 25, 2011 – 19:32 | By martha | Posted in News/Magazines | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Visualizing Áras Election, Part Two

I received some good feed­back on addi­tional things people thought might be inter­est­ing to look invest­ig­ate regard­ing next week’s elec­tion. So today I’ve done two things: 1) Taken a brief look at media out­let per­cep­tion of can­did­ates based on pub­lished art­icles and 2) Re-examined the Irish twit­ter stream with a new sen­ti­ment engine to see …

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October 20, 2011 – 13:12 | By martha | Posted in Technology | Tagged , | Comments Off

Tuesday Newsday: The iOS5 Newsstand

When iOS5 fea­tures were shown earlier this year at Apple’s WWDC, News­stand was one of the most inter­est­ing and talked about ideas. Now that iOS5 is live, it’s time to give it a test drive and see if it meets pub­lish­ers’ expect­a­tions. Apple describes News­stand as “A cus­tom news­stand for all your sub­scrip­tions.” News­stand is …

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October 18, 2011 – 16:20 | By martha | Posted in News/Magazines | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Visualizing Áras Election

The Irish pres­id­en­tial elec­tion is just about a week away. As a non-citizen res­id­ent of Ire­land, I can’t vote in this elec­tion (only local elec­tions). But I still find it inter­est­ing so I took a look at some social media data on the topic to make some visu­al­iz­a­tions. These are not meant to be pre­dic­tions, …

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October 17, 2011 – 13:59 | By martha | Posted in Technology | Tagged , | Comments (3)

Tuesday Newsday: Digital-only News

We’ve looked at a lot of digital ver­sions of their news­pa­per coun­ter­parts. Today instead we’re look­ing at news sources provid­ing their con­tent only online and not through any print formats.  I’m examin­ing digital-only news sources The Daily, Newsy and New360.   THE DAILY I was very excited for The Daily when it was announced. The …

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October 13, 2011 – 11:03 | By martha | Posted in News/Magazines | Tagged , , | Comments Off