After several years of stoically refusing to budge, BreakingNews.ie gets a make over. The simplicity of the old site has been replaced with a far more modern, but less scannable site. That was my favourite thing about the old one, you could browse all the latest headlines in seconds. You can still do that, but it takes a little longer. It actually seems like you can still get the same old-school view, just by viewing the site’s archives by day.

The video is a nice edition, but the way it’s done there doesn’t seem to be the capability to hot link to a particular piece of video. I want to link to audio of super Gormley’s sting on Tibet at the Green Party convention, but I don’t seem to be able to, I can only link to the media page in general.

Have you seen thebubble.ie ? It’s a video podcast by John Callaghan and Tim Duggan of Mercury Boy. They’re signed up to provide content to (get rid of the paywall) Ireland.com.

The videos are a mixed affair, but all of a high quality. One over site seems to be that it’s not possible to browse the videos chronologically as opposed to by category. Granted, there is an RSS feed and a blog available, but that’s not quite the same. Hopefully I’m just missing it.

Loads of well produced and interesting content if you root around.

thebubble.ie.