Update : Site is now fully up and can be found at http://www.7upfreeforum.com

Not 100% sure if 7UP have actually launched this yet (blog name is in a directory called test). If they haven’t they are now duly notified that the world of Irish bloggers is now watching them - ok, just a handful then.

Presumably it’s going to be backed up with some sort of advertising campaign on how to keep the kids occupied during the summer. They could do with a few links to the national parks on this post though.

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Viewbook is an application I’ve had my eye on for a long time now. It is, I think, the simplest and most elegant way to display photographs on a website or blog.

The control panel is where you upload all of your photographs and then sort them into presentation folders. So lets say you have just done a photowalk and have 10 or 15 photographs you would like to show. You will probably spend a fair bit of time sizing the images, uploading them, placing them in your blog post and so on. At the end of your efforts, you will have a post which (in my view) takes up far too much space.

With viewbook, all you need to do is select all your photos, add titles and comments to them, and finally copy & paste a bit of code to your blog post. The result is much cleaner and easier in the long run. Sample below shows “one I created earlier” using le craic header images for demonstration. Every presentation you create has its own url so you can email it or post it on twitter.

Sign up for a free account and try it for yourself, I think you’ll like it.

Recently stumbled on wordle and was immediately impressed. I used it to create this weeks le craic header. Having read all the Spencer Tunick posts I thought it would be interesting to take the words from the various accounts of the experience and see what the word cloud would look like.

It’s a fascinating tool and my new favourite plaything. There is also a tag text generator for flickr that makes it really easy to create a word cloud of your flickr account.

(note : as I type this, 9.54 pm Mon 23^rd June, wordle is down for maintenance – I think I’ve broken it )

As part of BBC Radio 4’s Happy Mondays series, Mark Watson has written a sitcom starring Ardal O’Hanlon as the owner of a lookalike agency. I had a listen using the BBC iPlayer last night, and it’s worth tuning in to.

BBC Radio Happy Mondays website – click on the “Listen to latest edition” link under the Happy Mondays logo.

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