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24/7 Magazine | Boards.ie

July 25, 2010 – 10:14 am

For the last few years I’ve been a solid lurker on the boards.ie photography forum, which is a profound source of photographic help, information, inspiration and the rest.

I spotted a thread late in its development this week, suggesting a 24/7 challenge. The idea was that photographers would shoot images and the volunteer editors would produce a magazine with the results, all within a 24-hour period, on the 24th of the 7th, July 24.
I was planning on taking a stroll down to the Festival of World Cultures anyway, so the ‘kids’ (my cameras) came along.
A diversion at the start meant going to an olde-worlde jeweller with my Granddad to get his ancient watch repaired, and I snapped a few shots while there.
With the 24/7 theme,my pic of a watchmaker doing his job must have struck a chord, because there it is on the cover. I have another one inside, too.
The images inside the magazine far surpass what I produced in terms of technical skill and technique, and it’s a real honour to have been featured at all. Finding my pic on the cover this morning was very cool indeed.
Kudos to Tommy Kavanagh and Chris Collins for putting the end product together and making it look so damn fine.
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Being Current

July 18, 2009 – 5:19 pm

Picture 6For any of the hit-hunters out there, this should end any queries in your mind about currency being related to your hits. I posted yesterday morning about Thursday night’s Pecha Kucha night, and the result is expressed in the image to the right – nearly all search hits were Pecha Kucha-related, contributing to a one-day trebling of traffic.

Apart from the tiger sex search, that is. Jeez, you post one item about Tiger Sex and for the next two years……

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Feeds for thought

January 20, 2009 – 8:35 am

My reader is crammed with goodies at the moment, so I though I’d share five of the more recent additions.

First up is the Guardian’s Writers’ Rooms series, which features in the Saturday edition. Gives a great insight into where great writers do their stuff. Sebastian Faulks is the most recent, but it includes Gillian Slovo, Anne Enright, Roald Dahl and Charles Darwin.

Along a similar vein is Sinead Gleeson’s Musical Rooms, which does the same thing for musicians great and small. Can’t believe I’ve gone so long without bookmarking either of these first two.

University Diary comes from the keyboard of DCU president Ferdinand von Prondzynski. Great to see high-level academics really understanding the blog’s purpose and tone of voice.

The Editors’ Weblog is a must-read for journos and media types, and comes with less dross than the Columbia Journalism Review feed, which I’ve axed as it was just too much (go find it yourself if you must).
The Guardian’s Belief blog is good if, like me, you’re a bit obsessed with thoughts on religion. Great diversity of opinion.

Sail Mike is like the Trust Tommy of the sailing world, a teenager who’s sailing non-stop around the world, on his own, and blogging the whole trip. Pretty damn impressive.

Subscribe at will.

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