Comments for Gerry Hanratty

Comment on Galway Races by Robert Carpenter

Robert Carpenter — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:08:21 +0000

Do you know if paddytheplasterer will be running this year?

Comment on Start ups and entrepreneurialism by Frank Fullard

Frank Fullard — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:37:59 +0000

Given that 90% of businesses are never likely to employ more than 10 people the logical first agency to contact is your local CEB [County or City Enterprise Board]. The specific remit of CEBs is to support micro-enterprises and they have a capacity to offer a variety of supports flexibly tailored to the smaller start-up. EI at the start-up stage are focused on HPSUs – High Potential Start Ups – which will always constitute a minority of start-ups.

Comment on GM Blogging a far cry from Roger by Gerry

Gerry — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:09:47 +0000

Roger,
I dont disagree with you at all, I was’nt posting to praise GM or anything they do, I was just pointing out the change in my opinion of the company due to praise I have been reading about his blog. In fact I have rarely read Bob’s Blog, if you check my post it says ” I was reading about Bob lutz’s blog for GM”, however if what you say is correct then it is even more amazing how effective the blog is at revearsing opinion. I have never heard anyone else suggest that his blog is prepared for him but I imagine he does crowbar some positive PR in there. Thanks for the link, I’ll definately check that film out.

Comment on GM Blogging a far cry from Roger by Electric Roger

Electric Roger — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:55:36 +0000

Are you kidding me? GM uses that blog site to execute carefully planned propaganda to fight off the truth, which is that they are one of the more short-sided and poorly run corporations in American history. They have PR people and highly paid image consultants that create that blog and everything Lutz says. You think he has time to come up with this stuff “on his own?” Check out his body language, it’s pretty negative anyway, surprised you don’t pick up on that.

In truth, GM is dying — Toyota, instead of talking about making cars people want, actually MAKES cars people want.

I mean, hydrogen? Are you freakin’ kidding me? Watch this movie out for the real deal on GM… ask “Bob” about that. Ask “Bob” about why GM missed out on hybrids back in the 70’s when they had a Buick hybrid they were testing!

Just watch…

Comment on Facebook Monster by Gerry

Gerry — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 23:12:09 +0000

It’s when you combine Mary with the social network sites that you’re in trouble, it’s like Mary on steroids. There are loads of sneaky sites for looking up people like Bigulo.com and Wink.com, hopefully the voyeuristic element will dissapear after the novelty wears off of being able to scam through profiles, but maybe you are just jealous that I’, you’re only facebook friend.

Comment on Facebook Monster by Paddy Kay

Paddy Kay — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:44:31 +0000

Facebook has been clever in appealing to peoples natural (curiosity / nosiness / nothing better to do with their time but gossip on people they know or half know.)

The seemingly harmless move of taking your address book and returning you the names of those people you know/once knew was a stroke of genius and should be commended as such (genius as in effective but not necessarily good). I don’t like the website myself but you can see how feckers with no life of their own could get lost in the web of contacts and profiles and pictures etc etc etc. collectively called bullshit

Internet, TV etc has brought out the voyeuristic nature in the masses, which I suppose was always there but was never such an accessible pastime. It used to involve visiting Mary (the local gossip) to pick up the gossip but knowing full well that Mary was going to be fishing for information from you to tell others, but such was the nature of the beast.

The interesting thing is a) humans are naturally voyeurs b) non of these voyeur sites would work if people didn’t post up information and pictures of themselves…so hence people also liked to be voyeured upon. (if there’s such a word).

Maybe things haven’t changed a lot since everyone visited Mary for a cup of tea, only now Mary has been made redundant and Facebook and the like have taken over the mantel as local gossip.

Perhaps a problem with the shift in “local gossip” is that it is now unrestricted. People used to spend only an hour or two with Mary a week therefore forcing themselves to do something a little more interesting/productive/challenging with the remainder of the week. Now we are in the “Social Networking” age the masses can spend more and more time farting about on such sites….End result: Everyone goes to college, specialise in something very specific and spend the rest of their time gossiping on such sites. Doesn’t make for a very rounded person or society.

Me thinks, I have taken this a bit far..…or maybe I a little jealous as I have no facebookbuddies except for the Rat.