{"id":524,"date":"2006-02-28T12:22:48","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T19:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=524"},"modified":"2006-02-28T12:22:48","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T19:22:48","slug":"on-beers-and-innovation-in-london-and-irish-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/on-beers-and-innovation-in-london-and-irish-names\/","title":{"rendered":"On Beers and Innovation in London, and Irish names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV>What is it with the Web?<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>I talk about why <A href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/archives\/001319.html\">the UK isn&#8217;t fostering startups<\/A> (too much whining and not enough action).<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>Then Stephen posts about <A href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/sogrady\/archives\/001329.html\">Denver tech meetups<\/A>, and why its nice to see people face to face every now and then, asking: is there a business model there for the post cubicle era?&nbsp;He cites my <A href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/archives\/000337.html\">The Pub Is The Place<\/A>.<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>The same day I get&nbsp;an email from Deirdre telling me about <A href=\"http:\/\/www.nmk.co.uk\/event\/2006\/03\/30\/beers-innovation-ugc\">Beers and Innovation 2<\/A>. Its on March 30th. I plan to attend if I can.<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>Irish names &#8211; love them. My first exposure to one of the &#8220;confusing&#8221; names was a girl in kindergarten in Greece-she was called Siobhan. I remember being quietly fuddled when she explained how her name was spelled, but knew immediately Gaelic had some strong magic to it&#8230; Even &#8220;Sean&#8221; is somewhat counterintuitive. Come on then- what is your favourite Irish name, or which name threw you when you first saw it spelled out?<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it with the Web?&nbsp;I talk about why the UK isn&#8217;t fostering startups (too much whining and not enough action).&nbsp;Then Stephen posts about Denver tech meetups, and why its nice to see people face to face every now and then, asking: is there a business model there for the post cubicle era?&nbsp;He cites my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-8s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}