I deal a lot with the notion of a knowledge economy.  A knowledge economy is where we have a well educated bunch of people, that are pretty familiar with, and unafraid of technology, that can see technology opportunities and have a good chance of exploiting them.
In a knowledge economy, we would not be overly-reliant on […]

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Dear Eamonn,
I am writing to you to suggest where we should be going with the “Smart” economy.  First of all, I think we should engage world-class e-commerce, which, in the first instance would drive enterprise functionalities. A key list of objectives include the desire to mesh front-end supply-chains, streamline B2C e-commerce, incentivize vertical interfaces, repurpose […]

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Went to see Leonard Cohen last night in the O2.  It was my first time in the O2 - I have been to the Point Theatre a number of times before they put the shed-part on top and renamed it the O2.
Before, I get in to the review of the Cohen concert, I had this […]

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http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2009/07/21/ireland-land-of-magical-thinking/

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So, the next report on the rape of the children of Ireland by the Catholic church is about to come out.  It will be foul, shocking, disgusting, unbelievable.  You don’t have to take my word for it.  The Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid martin has said (according to the RTÉ website) that “the examination of church […]

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There is a new Irish website called collab.ie that is doing a really interesting thing.  It is providing people with a place to go with an idea and look for other people that might have complementary skills to make the idea really fly.  This post is a really good example.  I think this needs to […]

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This is some art by Michael Kutsche.  I really like his stuff, though some of it can be a little unsettling.
But isn’t it supposed to be?

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I thought that today I would write about my job.  I would, from time to time, get somebody say to me something like “Oh, I suppose you are off for summer now?”  Which is a legitimate thing to assume, given that undergraduate students have all gone for the summer.  However, I spend only about 20% […]

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An Bord Snip Nua has suggested the abolition of the National University of Ireland.
I’m thinking this means that NUIM, DCU and the RCSI will now almost certainly form a new university or a new structure.
So, in 2 years time, there will be:
The Dublin Institutes of Technology (formerly all the DIT/Tallaght/DBS etc.).
The (SDUF) South Dublin University […]

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So, at 2pm today, Colim McCarthy’s report on how to achieve a massive reduction in the state’s annual bills is to be published.
There is intense media focus on this report and perhaps rightly so. It will mean salary cuts, social welfare cuts, job losses, etc.
The focus of the entire country is on this document.  There […]

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