In its 8th year, the Festival of Fools is running for the 5 days from Thurs 28th April until Monday 2nd May. Drawing huge crowds the annual street festival is a lot of fun and great a great atmosphere in Belfast city centre. I hope to catch a bit more of it over the next [...]

Today’s Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, now Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, was watched by an estimated estimated 400 million people worldwide, and has become the biggest largest event in Internet history. Of course there were also many street parties. I caught up with one on Donegal Road in South Belfast:

Elsie at Ely Marketing successfully helped add to an already brilliant atmosphere on the sunny Lisburn Road on Saturday 23rd April. The weather was fantastic and it was great to see so many families enjoying themselves, and I wonder how much of a success the Lisburn Road Business Association will consider it to have been. [...]

Great weather for sitting in the park.

A plan to promote the Lisburn Road, launched at the recent “emergency meeting” by the Lisburn Road Business Association and Ely Marketing kicks off tomorrow. I Love Saturdays is a street event taking place on the Lisburn Road on 23rd and 30th April from 1-4pm and includes: This is the agenda for Saturday 23rd April. [...]

Research released today by Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden has shown that both the iPhone and 3G iPad have been storing location data of where the devices have been. The researches put together a Mac app titled ‘iPhone Tracker‘ which displays the data and makes it look pretty. Many people do have one or two [...]

What is AV The Alternative Vote (AV) is very much like First-Past-the-Post (FPTP). Like FPTP, it is used to elect representatives for single-member constituencies, except that rather than simply marking one solitary ‘X’ on the ballot paper, the voter has the chance to rank the candidates on offer. The voter thus puts a ‘1’ by [...]

Far too many businesses and public figures think it’s better to use a Facebook profile rather than a page in order to connect with people. There are a few reasons why this is wrong. The biggest reason, and reason that should be the deciding factor for everyone — though clearly isn’t for some, it’s against [...]

What are the issues people of Northern Ireland are concerned with? This is the biggest topic coming out of the current election, particularly with young, and previously apathetic voters. Most people aren’t interested about the past, the Troubles, the tribal bullshit, but instead have a greater interest in the issues which affect them, you know, [...]

Last month the NI Assembly invited local “tweeters” for a guided tour of the Parliament Buildings, proving to be “the first legislature in the UK and Ireland to host a social networking event” — and apparently it was my idea! I have no problems admitting that I have very very limited knowledge of any sort [...]