We provide 3D Modeing and Animation at Weeno and we like to be part of the industry and community of all the services we provide. We have attended various meetups and use the the community forums that are associated with the web design and development.

I wanted to do the same with 3D, meet with people in the industry and talk with people on community forums and so on, you know yourself. Unfortunately in my searching I didn’t find much, there is a community of game developers and various other smaller groups like 3D Camp that focus on Second Life and similar areas concerning 3D. Nothing really that was the focal point of the 3D community in Ireland.

I was on creative ireland a few weeks back and was asking about community site and meetups for 3D professionals in Ireland and nobody seemed to know of any site that was really dedicated to 3D. In finding this out and dicussing the topic with like minded individuals, a fellow 3d artist and myself decided to setup a new community forum which we hope to expand if there is a decent community out there.

We decide that we would incorporate 2D Animation and Motion Graphics to appeal to more people and people that are interested in both. The site has a simple name with a simple purpose, to build a community,

www.2d3d.ie

Please if your interested and want to help build a community join the forum and share your expertise.

For the first time this year, DomainInformer readers were given the opportunity to nominate and vote for the best domain company in a brand new category, Readers’ Choice. The Readers’ Choice Award is a collaboratively determined distinction, which is independent of the judgment of our editorial team. The process is transparent, and the honor of winning the Readers’ Choice Award–unique.

http://www.domaininformer.com/top_10_year_awards_2008_readers.html

Came across these on nettuts.com which saw them here www.vecteezy.com.

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Free for commercial and personal use, enjoy.

Hey folks, we posted ages ago about the Blacknight domain addon for firefox we developed. Well since then Blacknight have changed there domain registration system so we had to update the addon so it kept working and making lots of peoples lives that little bit handier.

So while we were doing that we decided it might be a good idea to add it to the Mozilla addon website, so if anybody wants to rate it or get it from there use the link below.

http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9318

Couple a weeks back we made Grange Handling Groups catalogue site live, this site dragged out for months as some sites do, our client wanted to add more and more. We were happy to help and we are very proud of the completed site. Hopefully in the next 2 weeks we’ll have another 2 sites live. I’ll throw up the details anyway and have some background about our latest work.

Hope all are well.

There hasn’t been much movement or noticeable change on our site for a while as you might have picked up on, that is if there is actually anybody keeping an eye on what we are doing here at Weeno. If you are visiting us for the first time just ignore what I just said. 

We have in fact been keeping ourselves busy, even though there is a current recession in Ireland Weeno haven’t been feeling it, our business has been improving. In the next few months there will be many more changes to our site and you will see all the new projects we have been working on.

So keep an eye out for updates on our blog, they will be more regular as time goes by.

The 2008 Irish Blog awards were on last night in the Alexander Hotel in Dublin. The event is hosted and organised by Damien Mulley and we really can’t thank him enough for the massive amount of work he puts into them every year and also all his helpers and judges. The night was MC’ed by 2FM’s Rick O’Shea and a massive 400+ people attended on the night.

The quality and variety of blogs this year was amazing and with the attandce over doubled it’s clear to see that blogging is really becoming mainstream. Some special congratulations that we would like to give is to Robin for Best Technology Blogger, Grannymar and Grandad for Best Personal Blog, Sabrina for Best Designed Blog and of course Rick for not only Best Popculture blog which we sponsored and he said he valued more than his recent Meteor Award but also getting Special Recognition Award too.

A full list of all the winners are …

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At 00:56am on the 27th of February 2008 a tremor measuring 4.7 was reported on the east cost of England (map). As yet there no reports of damage.

Don’t worry we are fine all here at Weeno Media and only slight tremors were felt here in London. What is interesting here is the speed and channels through which the news was reported. Here is a run down of the how the news was reported to me.

00:56AM - I felt slight tremors and noticed my desk shake slightly.

00:57AM Twitter users also report felling the shaking and tremors around the UK

00:59AM @breakingnewson reports the first mentions of the earthquake on twitter

01:00AM Robin Blandford relays the news to me via Google talk

01:02AM Video conversation reports appear on Seesmic but no footage.

01:10AM User reports appear on Jaiku

01:18AM First reports appear on Sky News.com

01:21AM First reports appear on news.BBC.co.uk

01:39AM First reports appear on UK.Reuters.com

As you can see Twitter is becoming an amazing source for breaking news online and beats any of the traitional media by over 20 minutes. Another example of this was they the story of Pakistans Government block on youtube that was badly implemented and took it down for the whole world. This was first picked up on by Twitter users and reported on by Darren Clark editor of the BBC Technology News website via the news he got from Twitter

So is 2008 the year of the citizen journalist or just the citizen breaking news journalist? I would say for breaking news yes but everyone still turns to the traditional media sources to get the full story once things have settled down.

What do you think?

UPDATE:

An interesting update is this video which appeared on youtube about an hour after the tremor. It is from MBC news on Metaverse TV which is a TV station that operates inside the virtual world Second Life.

The shortlists for the Blog Awards 2008 have finally been announced. We are sponsoring the Best Pop Culture Blog so we thought we would give you the rundown on who is nominated for it with descriptions more or less straight from the horses’ mouth.

• DZ-015 by Rick O’Shea
  • This originally was the blog of his radio show on RTE 2FM. Over time it has grown into a load of nonsense that runs through his head and takes his interest at random hours and in random order.
• Fustar
  • Fústar prefers not to reveal his secret identity…choosing instead to wallow in the invigorating anonymity offered by the ‘blogosphere’.
• Daddy or Chips?
  • This is written by Enda and is a blog of delightful mp3s of music he wants to share. It is done purely in the spirit of enthusiasm about the music and his desire to introduce it to other people.
• UnaRocks
  • Written by Una, who does various things in the Irish media, including writing news and arts and features for The Sunday Tribune, talking about the Internet on RTE’s TTV on Tuesdays and also on Phantom FM on Wednesdays. It has been suggested that her middle name should be ‘Danger Bay’.
• Dante and the Lobster
  • By Medbh, it is an attempt to insert her voice and musings on politics, books, films, and to record events surrounding her emigration to Canada.
• The Chancer
  • Described by many as the replacement to Blogorrah, The Chancer is written by Derek O’Connor, Blogorrah’s former editor and many of Blogorrah’s past contributers also contribute to it.
• Frank Fearless Free
  • An old man who arrives on the blog, sick and nearly blind. He only remains until the day he dies of a heart attack one afternoon as he is walking down a path. Old Knudsen is a true storyteller, as everyone longs to be. He spins tales all day long that make him into a wandering, heroic figure, heavy with exaggeration and contempt of many. He is a mythic character whose life has become its own legend, because of his ability to tell stories about his own life .
• Ego Eccentric
  • Is a blog about music, ramblings, movies and more ramblings. It is written by Clockwork Rob, Evil Bob and ctrl/alt/delete
• Why, That’s Delightful!
  • A blog by Graham Linehan and his thoughts on pop culture in Ireland. He is a famous Irish writer and has written for Father Ted, Big Train, Coogan’s Run, Brass Eye and  Black Books. He also wrote and directed The IT Crowd (one of my favourite shows).
• Rapture Ponies
  • Is a blog about just some stuff in general, in the news, pop culture, tunes, pics and whatever is handy around the place to the girl from Galway who writes it.

(If anyone wants their description changed just let me know)

Some of Ireland’s finest and brightest webmasters, SEOers, SEMers, designers and developers are getting together next weekend for a meetup with people flying in from all over Europe. I will be there as will most of the guys over on the Irish Webmaster Forum where Gavin Doolan kicked the idea off. Hopefully this can become a regular event. The event is kindly sponsored by Blacknight and is FREE and open to all. So if you have an interest or a career in the web in Ireland drop down to us to see what’s going on. If you are coming down let us know by leaving comment here or over on Irish Webmaster Forum or join our Facebook event.

The details of the event are:

Date: Saturday February the 9th.
Time: 7.30PM till late.
Venue: Harbour Master, Mayor Street, IFSC, Dublin 1. (Map)

Some of the people registered to come are:

• Allistar from Logon
• Cormac Moylan
• Dave Davis from Redfly Marketing
• Eoghan McCabe from Contrast
• Gavin from Ireland SEO & Marketing
• Gavin Doolan
• James Larkin from Forbairt Media
• Ken Stanley
• Louie from Eire Web Design
• Mark Walsh
• Michael Flanagan
• Michael Wall
• Richard Hearne from Redcardinal

As Dave said, hopefully we can get some of the ladies in Ireland down as well as some PR people would be nice too.