Journalists call from time to time asking me to talk about various internet related topics. Most of the time the publications or shows are "general interest", so you can only talk about very general things.

Last night, however, was quite different, as I was one of the guests on "Domain Masters" which is broadcast and streamed weekly at 7pm EST (11pm in Ireland, midnight CET)

The show's host last night was my good friend Jothan Frakes who is one of the domain name industry's gurus.

Although I was very nervous (which probably showed!) we had a nice chat about Blacknight, domains and the internet industry.

If anyone wants to hear the show there should be an mp3 version available on the WebmasterRadio site at some time over the next couple of days.

UPDATE: The Mp3 from last night is now available on the site http://www.webmasterradio.fm/Internet-Marketing/Domain-Masters/Geo-Domain-Expo-and-BlackKnight.htm

UPDATE 2: Of course if I provided proper hyperlinks people might be actually able to use them!
So here you go: Show details including podcast

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PodCamp Ireland was fantastic.

The organisers did a fantastic job and I hope everyone had as much fun as I did.

They even managed to bamboozle me into joining a panel!

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A couple of us have headed over to Kilkenny for the day to attend PodCampIreland.

If you're in the area drop into the Ormonde Hotel

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Ireland's first major podcasting event takes place this Saturday in the Ormonde Hotel, Kilkenny.

The event kicks off at 10am and promises to be an interesting day if the list of expected attendees is anything to go by.

As it's only "over the road" from us I plan on attending, as I'm still feeling guilty about not attending the last couple of events that we sponsored!

For a list of possible attendees see here

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I'd just like to take this opportunity to give a huge thanks to the organisers of BarCamp Southeast.

Tom and Keith did an absolutely amazing job and it is only due to their hardwork and meticulous preparation that the day was such a complete success.

Several of our team went down to Waterford for the day to hear about some of the cool things that the Irish 'net community is currently playing with and I think I speak for all of them when I say that we thoroughly enjoyed it.

Admittedly there will have been a few groggy heads this morning, but I guess that's a sure sign of an enjoyable post-BarCamp session

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I like us to get involved with interesting projects, so when Tom Raftery asked us if we'd be interested in sponsoring the It@Cork conference this year I was interested.

Rather than merely shoving our name on the sponsors' list we're actually sponsoring the pre-conference podcast series, where Tom will be speaking to some of the speakers that will be in Cork in November.

The first interview is with Jeff Nolan and is well worth listening to either on your pc or mp3 player!

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If you have been nominated for a Net Visionary Award this year you can now put a tasty logo on your website or blog.

(The sponsors haven't been left out either, as you can see from the main page of this blog.)

Adding the logo to your blog is quite easy. In my case I am using Wordpress for my personal blog, so I added it the theme's sidebar (sidebar.php).

Simply download the logo that corresponds with the category (or categories) that you have been nominated for from the IIA website. In most browsers you simply right click and choose "save as".

If you are using Wordpress for your blog you can either edit the template file via your browser (if the permissions are correct) or you can download the file to your computer and edit it there.

The HTML code you need to add could be as follows:

<a href="http://www.netvisionary.ie/votenom.html"><img alt="Net Visionary 2006 Nominee" src="http://blog.blacknight.ie/images/award06_nominee_blogger.jpg" width="133" height="214" /></a>

Just ensure that the "img src" part points to the correct location for the image you are using.

In the example code above the nominee logo is for "best blogger" which would display like this:

Don't forget - voting is open to everyone and you don't need to be a member of the IIA to vote.

Posted by Michele Neylon at 9:40 AM | Permalink

We are proud sponsors of the Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Awards again this year.

This year's awards sees the introduction of two new categories that reflect the growing popularity of the media in question - namely blogging and podcasting.

Here at Blacknight we're passionate about new technologies, so it's little surprise that several of our clients have been nominated.

Best of luck to all the nominees this year, as I can see that some of the categories are going to be hotly contested.

NB: Voting is open to everyone - you DO NOTneed to be a member of the IIA.

Posted by Michele Neylon at 8:49 PM | Permalink

I was down in Cork on Saturday for BarCamp which we were sponsoring.

I had a really good time and met some really interesting people.

None of this would have been possible without the hard work of the organisers and volunteers, so I'd like to take this chance to thank them for all their selfless work - without people like them great events simply cannot happen.

Maybe this could become an annual event?

Posted by Michele Neylon at 6:58 PM | Permalink

The Irish Internet Association annual awards, the Net Visionaries, will be held later this year.

The Net Visionary award is the only award in Ireland where the public can not only nominate the winners, but also vote for them. You don't need to be a member of the IIA, nor does the nominee.

You can nominate people under any one of the range of categories on the official site.

This year's categories include the introduction of both "blogger" and "podcaster"

Blacknight is sponsoring the "Web Designer Excellence" award.

Posted by Michele Neylon at 11:31 AM | Permalink

If you want to hear a bit more about our new Ruby On Rails offering then you may be interested in our first podcast interview with Mario from PR Web.

It's available in mp3, iTunes and Ogg.

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Tom's interview with Technorati's David Sifry is now available online.

You can either download the mp3 sound file or use software, such as iPodder to subscribe to the RSS feed.

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We are pleased to announce the launch of the new podcasting channel on ENN in association with PodLeaders.

Tom Raftery, who has built up a reputation as one of Ireland's foremost podcasters, has been running a series of high profile interviews on podleaders.com for the last few months.

Past interviewees have included Vint Cerf, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble, Michael Arrington, Steve Rubel, Shel Israel and many others.

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