It essentially states that the Irish shoud be using the language more and be less concered about giving it official status in the EU. Why not both?
Satellite Cat Fight!
Echostar (Dish Network) and Viacom (CBS network, MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, BET, among others) have sharpened their claws and going at each others’s throats. I first became aware of this last week when watching Comedy Central. The channel started to superimpose a text message addressed to “Dish Network Customers” over the programming, but it was quickly blacked out, assumably by Dish Network staff. This happened a few times during the show. Today we got home and found all of the channels out of service, with a message from Dish Network to direct our frustrations at Viacom. With all of the…
Hopefully this will draw the attention of some WinMedia experts.
I’m in charge of an archive of about 1000 hours of interviews with native Hawaiian speakers that we are currently digitizing. It is one of the largest and most valuable audio archive available for any indigenous language. We do have security concerns regarding this. We realize that making the audio completely copy-proof is impossible, and we’re not sure to what lengths we want to go to protect them. We may decide that minimal security is necessary if any at all. We might want to only stream, but then again we might want to allow downloads. As yet to be determined.…
I’ve been so busy with work and a recording project that I’ve had no time at all to post to RK.
I’ve been so busy with work and a recording project that I’ve had no time at all to post to RK. Bad Keola. That will be rectified shortly as I hope to stimulate some discussion into the pros and cons of various audio formats and their DRM schemes.
Disney Channel implanting the corporate line in your children (again).
A few years ago there was a minor uproar when the Disney Channel’s ‘The Proud Family’ aired an episode that talked about online song swapping, and while they claimed that the show discussed the issue in a balanced fashion, it really pushed the corporate line on the issue. I was only partially tuned in as my daughter was watching the movie “Pixel Perfect.” In one scene, the two main characters meet a rap star, and during the discussion they talk about his breakout release, and he mentions how he didn’t make anything off of it, but says with no regret…
More interesting Irish language discussion on Slugger.
Is the intent of the EU’s policies on language simply to facilitate communication between members, or to foster cultural identity? Of all of the new countries joining the EU, are there any that are largely monolingual in their own language? If the majority can also speak English, German, French, Spanish or whatever, what is the justification of designating their languages as officially recognized EU languages? We go through a bit of this in Hawai’i as well. Hawaiian is an official language of the state, however, while election ballots can be found in many other languages, they are not available in…
Adams urges official status for Irish Language.
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP has written to the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern urging him to seek and secure official status for the Irish language during the Irish Presidency of the European Union.
Bank may act as euro rise puts jobs at risk.
When my wife and I visited Ireland two summers ago, the exchange rate for the Euro was about $0.87. We paid about $0.95 per Euro at banks across the country, discovering the hard way that the official exchange rate and the actual exchange rates are quite a bit different. Now the exchange rate is about $1.30 per Euro, making Irish products, and Irish trips, much more expensive for Americans. I hope that it does come down again and make a return visit more feasible. At the current rate, forget about it.
Coincidentally, Hawai’i Island is also implementing a smoking ban, effective February 1.
The original version of the measure would have banned smoking in nearly all public places, though the final bill exempts bars and nightclubs. Ireland’s ban, praised by the tourist industry, seems to be more restrictive. Personally I would have loved to see Hawai’i Island’s ban to include bars and nightclubs.
There has been a lot of discussion regarding the smoking ban in Ireland, and its affect on the tourism industry.
My wife and I did not have a single drink in any pub in Dublin’s famed Temple Bar district, simply because we could not find one that had breathable air. We didn’t fare much better in Glenn Colm Cille, though we lasted about a half a few nights at Biddy’s (pic at right). Unfortunately the stench of cigarette smoke on our clothes lingered for the walk back the our rooms. As enjoyable as our trip was, it would have been infinitely more enjoyable had we been able to find a smoke-free pub.