CGarvey.ie - The personal website of Cathal Garvey

I use Google Reader to flick through headlines of various RSS feeds I’m interested in. With many thousands of articles in a given week, I really glance through the headlines before deciding to read any provided excerpt. Only if the excerpt tickles my fancy will I actually read the rest of the article.

I learnt of the news of Diego Maradona‘s end of tenure as Argentina’s national soccer team coach with 2 adjoining headlines from RTÉ and Breaking News.

Whilst both articles have the exact same wording for the first paragraph, both use wildly conflicting headlines to describe the news. Whilst RTÉ’s news editorial is generally superior to TCM/BreakingNews, they’ve really lost the battle on this one! Read RTÉ’s news report or TCM BreakingNews’ report.

For the record, Maradona wasn’t sacked. In fact to say he has “called it quits” is misleading as well (but nowhere near as misleading as RTÉ’s headline!). However, it was decided that his contract wouldn’t be renewed. Big difference, even if somewhat pedantic (moi?)!

There’s a wealth of web applications addressing all sorts of needs. With the focus, these days, on all things social media and social networking, specific vertical markets are often left behind.

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DineToRead.ie is not just any old book club, though it is that too; it’s a book club with an impressive online presence to support the club. DineToRead do regular meetings, over a meal, as you’d expect, but they also have a set of online tools to support the club’s members as well.

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Munster Rugby is arguably the most successful club/provincial rugby brand in the northern hemisphere. You know a rugby brand is successful when you have a huge portion of followers from an opposing club or province. It’s the Man United of rugby!

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