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With all the focus on the implementation of the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, very fewContinue Reading
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With all the focus on the implementation of the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, very fewContinue Reading
The recent general election manifesto launch by Theresa May and the Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom highlights theContinue Reading
Technology journalist and psychologist, Aleks Krotoski, presents a Guardian documentary, “The Power of Privacy”, examining growing concerns about private data and onlineContinue Reading
Another year, another nomination to the Blog Awards Ireland competition. This is the third time in a row for An Sionnach Fionn, though with noContinue Reading
If you are interested in what is commonly known as “citizen journalism“, the internet-invigorated tradition of independent news reporting and analyses coming from individualsContinue Reading
Back in March the social networking site Facebook insisted that I change my personal FB profile to a promotional FacebookContinue Reading
Susceptible as I am to the marriage of history with technology, being the original antiquarian-technophile, my love affair with the Internet ArchiveContinue Reading
Judging by the positive reactions it seems that many of you have enjoyed my occasional posts highlighting the earliest occurrences of the term “Irish RepublicanContinue Reading
Over the last year I’ve been contacted by a few people enquiring if I knew anything about the disappearance of the web-basedContinue Reading
You may have noticed a few changes in the layout of An Sionnach Fionn today though hopefully they are notContinue Reading
The people of Wales now have two national domain names to register their websites with, “.cymru“ and “.wales”, reflecting theirContinue Reading
From Glenn Greenwald a must-read for Republican and progressive activists in Ireland and elsewhere examining how the internet is used andContinue Reading
Yes, I know, the RSS feeds to like-minded websites in Ireland, Scotland and elsewhere have been removed from An SionnachContinue Reading
Here’s a thing. The avast! Online Security and Web Reputation Plugin, a web browser extension bundled with one of the world’s mostContinue Reading
The newspaper revelations by the Guardian and the Wall Street Journal in relation to the NSA’s positioning of itself asContinue Reading
Just a quick post to note and recommend the wonderful, informative and always entertaining Irish Blog at Transparent Language. Its idiosyncratic nature is its joy.Continue Reading
The new Irish language social networking site Abair Leat!, which is primarily aimed at language learners, has been officially launchedContinue Reading
Talking of the Irish language online there is certainly a lot of speculation at the moment about the new websiteContinue Reading
In December 2011 I wrote about a new online Irish language education network for language learners called “Abair Leat!“. Going throughContinue Reading
There’s an interesting site with some fun games for Irish language learners at Digital Dialects. The vocabulary seems correct and soContinue Reading
Thank you to everyone who contacted me over the last 24 hours as An Sionnach Fionn joined the global internetContinue Reading
The Irish language is about to take a technological leap that will place it, in terms of accessibility and knowledge, at theContinue Reading