Hummingbird Mentality is the hubsite and succubus of time of Gareth Stack, a student from the Republic of Ireland. Gareth has been blogging in one form or another since March 1998 - originally on Insane Rantings, then later on Live Journal, and most recently here at dbspin.com. Currently his blog focuses primarily on social media, digicasting, and emerging technology.
His ambitions include obtaining a doctorate in Psychology, writing the great American novel (for which he will certainly have to get out more), experiencing anterior time travel, and reinvigorating the new media landscape. He answers his email. Should his birthday be approaching, or your love become unquenchable, this is his Amazon wishlist.
Gareth posts links on del.icio.us, tweets on twitter, and media snippets and social proof on the Face Book, Bebo and MySpace. He hosts photographs and a moblog using Gallery 2, and has a ramshackle collection of creative writing and (other peoples) music collected on this site. He is involved in student broadcasting on Trinity FM, Irelands best student run radio station.
The archive of Technolotics, a video podcast Gareth created with Jason McCandless and Francis McGillicuddy, is available via the web, eMule, and on iTunes.
A slightly dated CV is available here, and on linked in.
Praise for material at this site..
‘Gareth Stack Explains Bebo, and Very Well Too!’
John Breslin, Researcher and Lecturer in semantic web and social software, NUI Galway
Founder: PlanetJournals.ie, The Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities Project
One of..‘the most original thinkers I’ve spotted on the internet’
Bernie Goldbach, Lecturer Computing and Multimedia, Tipperary Institute, Columnist Irish Examiner
Founder: Underway In Ireland, IrishEyes.
‘If I were a mobile phone company, or a big technology company, I’d hire him for the Summer and hope to suck the goodness out of his brain.’
Simon McGarr, McGarr Solicitors.
Founder: Tuppenseworth.ie
‘Gareth Stack has a sophisticated explanation of how the social networking page farm draws users in’
Seamus McCauley, Strategic Analyst at Associated Northcliffe Digital
Founder: Virtual Economics.
“I just finished reading one of your stories, The Cave, and I wanted to tell you that it is really great. Thank you for sharing that; I haven’t read anything so vivid and imaginative in a while.”
Ego Plum, American composer, performer and visual artist.
Founder: Ebola music.
Praise for Technolotics..
“If many young students are not yet using modern technology to express themselves, three have done so successfully. Technolotics.com is billed as an irreverent look at technology, politics and the media by three Irish students and for a year it stood as one of the few Irish videoblogs.
Technolotics is cheap and cheerful and it proves an important point. Viewers don’t need RTÉ-grade production values to engage with new personalities. Technolotics found an audience.”
Haydn Shaughnessy, writing in The Irish Times.
Founder: The Content Studio, Media Angle