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Date: 03 December 2008

Cow & Gate announce new addition to baby food range

Cow & Gate announced today (04.12.2008) the addition of organic, fruit flavoured rice cakes to their baby food range. The range, called 'Fruit Smilers', will be available in supermarkets from Friday, December 5th.

The rice cakes will offer a healthy alternative for infants snacks and also for the difficult weaning stage. Free from salt and sugar, they are made with 100% organic pureed fruit and research has proven them easy for babies to grip.

Cow & Gate's Marketing Manager Claire Edwards: 'In an age when concerns about artificial food flavours and additives in baby food are at an all-time high, we think they'll regard this as a welcome development.'

Cow & Gate Ltd is based in Sandyford Industrial Estate. Parents with queries about the product or weaning their babies are encouraged to phone the Cow & Gate Customer Careline on 1850-234567 between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.

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Tabitha Bourke

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tabitha.bc@hotmail.com

PR1 Christmas Party

Never mind the online sex industry, what about the PR1 sex industry! That's something else all-together as I learned from our game of "I Never" last night! Absoloutely mental stuff was shared in that sitting room. If walls could talk......

Digital Marketing

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is something I didn't even know existed until last week but on further study (of colins notes) I've found out its actually quite a competitive business! All the business related websites out there are competing for the topspot on Google or are buying themselves a sponsored link. Some websites are employing all kinds of dodgy tactics like page bouncing, cloaking, page jacking, invisible words and keyword stuffing, just so they can be up with the best of the rest. Fair play to Google though, they penalise the sites that do this, BMW Germany actually got removed from the listings because of their antics!

Sure everyone loves a bita sex!

Undisputedly, the sex industry is one of the most topical, current, largest and most profitable of the online industries today. Just google the word SEX and you get like 711,000,000 hits. Type SEX into the search box on Ebay and you get almost 19,000 products returned, from blue movies to penis enlargement pills and a lot of other crazy things in between. But is it all to accessible to us?

What about the young lads who are on youporn.com everyday after school, watching or even posting videos very much unsuitable for their age. What about the paedophiles and sex addicts feeding their addictions by looking up explicit pictures that should never even have been taken. What about the virgins auctioning off the popping of their cherry, so to speak? What about the little kiddies trying to look up mickey mouse and getting something not quite what they had bargained for???

I'm not trying to erradicate the online sex industry or anything, just pointing out the harsh reality. But once it's decent enough and once the wrong people aren't accessing the wrong things, then yeah work away! Whatever floats your boat! Sure everyone loves a bita sex...

Virtual Communities

Recently in college we have spent some time looking at and talking about virtual communities. A virtual community is defined basically as a group of people that interact via communication media such as email, online social networks or instant messages rather than face to face, for social, professional, educational or other purposes. E.g. Bebo, Facebook, Msn Messenger, Yahoo Answers and believe it or not this wonderful blog!

I really could not even begin to tell you the ammount of these virtual communities I have signed up to at some stage, I don't know half their names or remember my login details for them but I'm always getting e-mails from some acquaintance telling me how wonderful this new site is and that I have been invited to join, so if it looks half decent I generally think, Yeah sure why not! This just goes to show how HUGE this sector is on the internet, especially with people of my generation. Nearly everybody I know is a member of some virtual community. Even my mam is on Facebook and she is technologically retarded.

From a business perspective, forming some sort of virtual community for your existing and potential clients could reap endless rewards. Even geting mentioned on one could do wonders for your profits! There are all sorts of blogs, chat rooms and forums set up by businesses where the clients can discuss, speculate, critise or praise whatever thet want. It's crazy how crucial the internet and virtual communities really are in the business world these days.


Lastly, from a social perspective, being a member of a virtual community is definately becomming one of the main ways of keeping in touch with friends (bebo, facebook), getting some help or perspective with your problems (yahoo answers), or just keeping you amused. I joined Second Life today. It was great. I was able to create an avatar basically in the image of how I want to look. Less love handles, longer hair, bigger lips. I was having great fun altogether! Gave up after a while though. Apparently my graphics card isn't up to scratch!

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This video of a well known Dundalk taxi-man was posted on you tube a week or two ago. For anyone that's ever met him it's quite funny! For anyone who has never met him- note his face and AVOID! I'll not be taking a taxi off him anytime soon! So funnny though! I'm not going to put up the video, just the link for now. Some people in this class are quite young and impressionable and I wouldn't want to be the one to damage them!
Click here to see Trevor Mc Dowell in action!

Stress City!!

I am actually so nervous. I have a presentation next class and everyone else seems so prepared. agghhhh! Stress levels are at a max right now! And I've to go to stupid work at two to be ordered round by those spanners Patrick and Gretchen! <---(the part-timers secret code names for the manager and one of the supervisors, both female). I am not lookking forward to this! God the economy really did have to go and **** itself over just when I need a new job, didn't it!