Personal
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detox, Personal, Social Media, Social Media
The social media detox one week on
Tracking my reduced use of social media. One week on and there are few problems.
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The social media detox
I am planning to reduce or stop almost completely using social media. This is the first in a series of reflections as I try to stop.
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One from the Archive
Recently a group on Facebook was started "Friends of Downtown Radio 1976 - 2019". Many of the people I used to work with have been posting memories and photos. Downtown is where I started in 1979. The 40th anniversary is in November.
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Analytics, audiences, Creative, Media, Personal, Social Media, Twitter
What do you want to say? First know your audience
My communications mantra hasn’t changed much over the years. I have found it serves me well.
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Belfast, Business, Community, hotel, Innovation, Personal
Shankill Mission
I like big ambitious ideas. And this is one I am involved with. The plan is to open a hotel on Belfast’s Shankill Road.
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Total Slovenia News
A new English language news and current affairs website Total Slovenia News has recently launched.
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Seasonal torpidity
The point of this blog in recent months has been to track my imaginary journey around the Mediterranean. Having “travelled” from Gibraltar to Bosnia and Herzegovina, my odyssey has […]
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Books, Creative, Journalism, Personal, Technology
Digital – Archive, Analogue – Decoration. Is a paperback analogue or is it just a thing?
The convenience: at one time I owned more than 5,000 of those vinyl albums. At one time or another the total, 10,000 would be a close approximation. I own none now. Precisely zero. Gave them all away. They took up so much room. But I have begun to buy books again. Paper books.
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The books so far
I started with great enthusiasm and energy finding and reading books to accompany me on the make-believe meander around the Med. When I reached Slovenia, I began to slow down for a brace of reasons. I hit a couple of difficult books that were not the page turners I prefer, and I had less time available.
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Back to work 2017
At some point over Christmas I began to write predictions for 2017; questioning algorithms, rise in media literacy and fixing the internet to make it a less horrible place – maybe that is about people rather than internet.
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Music I like, Personal, South Africa, World Music
Abavuki: Jazz from South Africa’s Cape
I love Abavuki. They are the most energetic band I have ever seen. The Marimba led multi-instrumentalists change the stage line-up through their performance.
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Hot and sunny a then …
Before Lunch It Was Sunny, Then This … from Davy Sims on Vimeo.
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Thursday 12 June
Outstanding lunch in Outstanding lunch in Radovljica. Several types of Salami, Karst ham, sheep’s cheese, olives and cold roast pork with onion bread, three glasses of white wine, followed by […]
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Right place – wrong time
I am in the wrong place. Doing a little survey of the Bars in Bled … (how dare you suggest I’m on a pub crawl. This is for journalistic purposes …honest!). […]
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Create2014 Conference and KickStarter
I am very proud to have been invited to speak at Create2014 in Derry~Londonderry September 17 as part of CultureTECH week. With in 24 hours of launching their KickStarter, the […]
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Holywood, Personal, Restaurants, Travel
You’ll never go hungry in Holywood – Third Edition
For such a small town, there are an awfully big number of places to eat.
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Archive, Journalism, Lifecasting, Personal
Phone numbers from 1989 for Nelson Mandella and Vaclav Havel
Way back in time, we used to keep numbers on cards in cardboard boxes. I was working in current affairs at a really interesting time; fall of communist governments in […]
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Paris has changed!
Paris has changed. Not for the better. Not for the worse. Just different. For example, I was standing outside Telegraphe Metro trying to match the Google Map print out to […]
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Davy and Dawn’s Big Adventure
A few days ago I told the team I work with at WIMPS (http://www.wimps.tv) that I am leaving Public Achievement. It was neither an easy nor snap decision. I have […]
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Belfast, Lifecasting, Personal
Davy’s on the road again – again
I’m about to get busy, again. Today and tomorrow producing a live webcast from the Confidence in Policing conference at Titanic Belfast for Northern Ireland Policing Board. Then to Paris […]
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Ukraine, Russia, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the First World War
It is coincidence rather than planning that on the centenary of the beginning of the First World War I am reading The Radetzky March. Detective novels and spy stories are […]
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Holywood, istanbul, Lifecasting, Ljubljana, Personal, Travel
Top 12 Moments 2013
I started trying to highlight 10 moments through the year but it was difficult enough to keep it down to 12.
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hotel, istanbul, Lifecasting, Personal, Travel
Tulip City Hotel, Istanbul
Review in Trip Advisor I was on business and attending meetings nearby. One of the reasons I chose Tulip City was that it was recommended by colleagues in Istanbul and […]
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Belfast, Belfast Lough, Creative, Holywood, Personal
Belfast Lough Daily Photo – April Compilation
Each day, around the same time 06:45 I photograph Belfast Lough from Seapark Holywood looking toward Belfast.
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Get Well Soon, Bobby Ewing
In 1984 Ian Shuttleworth Iain Walker and Eoin Patterson made this cassette using samples from my radio programme Nothin’ Better on Downtown Radio Get Well Soon Bobby Ewing (mp3) The Shadow (Between […]
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Rok’s Funeral
Written: Ljubljana February 14 2013 Kranjska Gora February 13 The priest recites prayerful rhythms I partly recognise. “This must be the ‘Glory Be’… This must be the ‘Our Father’ …” […]