Caricatures Ireland

Hello Smokers!

Greetings to everyone arriving via this post on smoking. My pagerank seems to have jumped for this blog in the last few days and I’ve loads of visitors looking for images of one thing: smoking! At the moment the smoking cartoon appears on the second page of a Google image search for smoking. If you’d like to help me get on the first page you could link to the original post on smoking from your own blog or website.

This image seems to be lucky: it’s driving my traffic up, and it’s the first one I sold at the Galway Comedy Festival Cartoon Exhibition! So maybe linking to it is lucky as well. Not that I’m superstitious or anything.
Go on, link to me and I’ll give you a free fortune reading!

Tags: Cartoons, Connacht Tribune, Exhibitions, Galway Comedy Festival, Luck, art, blogging, smoking ban, social networking by admin
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Skype Etiquette?

I have a little button on my website and blog so that clients can contact me directly using Skype. Click, ring, ring, I’d like to enquire about your caricature prices. But I frequently get contact requests or chats from random people, not just in Ireland, but all over the world. I don’t necessarily mind (yet!) but it got me thinking: you’d never just pick up the phone and randomly ring someone from the phone book, would you? And isn’t VOIP supposed to be computer-based telephony?
Here’s my thinking on it- the whole social networking phenomenon (Bebo, Myspace etc) is so ingrained into the culture of computer usage that applications like Skype fall into that bracket by default. By the same token that you can browse and add friends at random on networking sites, Skype users are doing the same thing. Which begs the question, what is considered proper Skype etiquette? I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on it.