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Diary

Going Viral – How to Spread Ideas

by venntertainment on April 19, 2009

Posting has been odd and sporadic throughout the weekend. I know! So I thought I’d give an explanation.
I was lucky enough to get a place on the Go Viral workshop that was being held as part of the Trinity Science Gallery’s Infectious expo. Ze Frank (Online Performance Artist and Idea Virus Guru) and Jonah Peretti [...]

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Read me NOW!

by venntertainment on April 18, 2009

Help!
Guys – tell anyone in dublin: show up at stag’s head, 8PM with the letter A on your hand, then await instruction. pass it on
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaBPcNByWlM&hl=en&fs=1]
*Update* Good response to this last night, thanks for passing it on!
0 I like This

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Wednesday

by venntertainment on April 15, 2009

Here’s a bit of a round-up of what the web has for us this morning:
Wired talks to Brian Azzarello about 100 Bullets last issue:
Here we go
Total Film has a piece on:
Who will play Captain America?
Shocktillyoudrop.com has a great feature on:
Sam Raimi’s: Drag me to Hell
Dreadcentral.com brings us news that George A. Romero (Dawn of the [...]

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The Long Weekend

by venntertainment on April 13, 2009

Well I’m back from a really cool surprise trip to Birmingham to see my team, Aston Villa, play Everton. I didn’t actually know I was going until I arrived in the airport early on Saturday morning (my girlfriend hadn’t told me anything about it you see, other than that we were taking a flight on [...]

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The Weekend

by venntertainment on March 30, 2009

Well, there’s another weekend gone. How quickly they go by.
Fri night, I was at the Peakin’ Trippers launch in the Village. It was an excellent night, and the lads pulled in a huge crowd. I’d say there was well over 160 in there.
I spent the rest of the weekend on a shoot with the fabulous [...]

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TGIFF!

by venntertainment on March 27, 2009

And it’s that time of the week again!
Empire have a great feautre on the many face of Michael Sheen
He really is a wonderful actor…The Damned United is out this week
Wired, among many other interesting things, have a little piece on Pride and Predjudice and Zombies
I forgot to include this book in my list of upcoming [...]

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Tuesday

by venntertainment on March 24, 2009

Good Afternoon,
Here’s some interesting stuff from Web 2.0 today (and yesterday possibly!)
Apparently the iPhone is a better hand-held gaming platform than DS, PSP and any of its other counterparts
Wired have the lowdown here
They also have a cool interview with the marketing genius that is Drummer Josh Freese
Here’s a special way to promote your album
Slate think [...]

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The Weekend

by venntertainment on March 24, 2009

Seeing as I’m pretty late with this, I’m just going to link to some stuff:
Saturday was obviously all about Ireland’s Grand Slam win. This has been talked about everywhere, and nobody has done it better than the 2UIBestow Blog.
Thank you BOD, ROG, POC and the lads for giving our country a timely lift.
Here’s a nice [...]

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It's Friday!

by venntertainment on March 20, 2009

It’s here, and my that was a short week indeedio.
Let’s do the rounds:
Wired have an exclusive interview with Grant Morrison, comic book writer. I love his stuff, particularly All Star Superman and Batman RIP.
Here we go
There’s some really nice architectural photography in Slate
Clean Lines
Facebooks’s Twitter-like redesign fails to please the crowd
See Silicon Republic
Hotpress cover Dark [...]

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Thursday…

by venntertainment on March 19, 2009

Good Morning!
We’re nearly there…that was indeed a short week!
Here’s the run-down:
Wired talk about Viral e-book Marketing:
Major Publishers Partner with Scribd
Slate talk about the FBI’s Giant DNA database
Genetic Surveillance for All
An Interesting Poem on New Yorker
Mom as Fly
State.ie cover the Meteors
Meteor Awards – RDS, Dublin
Empire report the extremely sad death of Natasha Richardson
Read about it here
Total [...]

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