Category Archives: News
DCU’s Hybrid Awards
By Piers Scott As the awards season finally draws to a close there remains one more event on the calendar, The Hybrids. The Hybrid Awards, DCU’s annual multimedia awards, take place this Wednesday in The Venue. According to the Media Production Society, who run the awards, this year saw 74 submissions across four categories. The [...]
New Media, New Responsibilities?
Some three years after The Guardian redeveloped its website to include new media the site is still leading the way in online reporting. But this does not mean that it always get it right. In 2007 a Reuters photojournalist, Namir Noor-Eldeen, was killed in Iraq after being fired upon by a U.S. helicopter gunship. The [...]
Online Journalism
Surprisingly online journalism is nothing new- in 1981 the San Francisco examiner went online. At $20 to download the paper (most of which which was spent on just the phone call) it was not a revolutionary it was not revolutionary it was an important step online. Thirteen years later in January 1994 the Palo Alto [...]
Three Screens and Glowing Rectangles
An article in Time Magazine some years ago reported that new media will “make radio as obsolete as the horse” and destroy the American cinema industry. Children will not need to go to school as classes will be brought directly into their homes and Presidential candidates will use it to win elections. The article was [...]
The Mother of all Demos
In this video from 1968 Doug Engelbart gives, what he called, “mother of all Demos” in which he demonstrates the first modern PC-compete with mouse, keyboard, screen and a pre-courser to emails.
Viruses attacking Irish Websites
Irish websites are being attacked by a series of sophisticated viruses, the website hosting company Digiweb warned today. The company has advised customers, whom it believes have been attacked, that their website passwords have been compromised. In an email sent to customers who have been attacked the company said, “As part of an ongoing investigation, [...]
George Lee-ving
Former RTÉ broadcaster George Lee resigned this morning from the Fine Gael Party after only nine months in office. Mr Lee tendered his resignation to party officials saying he was unhappy with his role in the party which he described as ‘very limited.’ “Despite my best efforts I have had virtually no influence or input [...]
Mental Health Discrimination in Ireland
Amnesty Ireland has commissioned top DCU researchers to conduct the Republic’s first nationwide study into mental health discrimination. The five month study is part of Amnesty International’s larger three year study of mental health issues. The Irish study will look into the levels of discrimination faced by people with mental health problems. “Mental health issues [...]
Browser Wars
There was a marked decline in the use of Internet Explorer in 2009 according to the web monitoring company AT Institute. Use of the browser fell by 7.8% in the six months to December. Firefox also saw a slight decrease of about 1% in the same period. Chrome and Safari were the main beneficiaries with [...]
Digital Terrestrial Television in Ireland
Some retailers are misleading consumers by selling Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) equipment ‘approved’ for the Irish market, RTÉ NL said yesterday. RTÉ NL, the RTÉ company responsible for updating the country’s broadcasting network, is urging consumers to hold off purchasing new digital TV equipment until the launch of a DTT information campaign later this year. [...]