Stephen Fry is blogging – blessays are what he calls his blog essays. The first one was on mobile phones and it was wonderful in it’s very indepth knowledge of phones, interfaces and operating systems (if a very long read). The lastest blessay is on fame – and not a legwarmer in sight! I’m rather [...]
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An interesting move for an Irish NGO – or indeed a large umbrella body of NGO’s. The Children’s Right’s Alliance have launched a series of podcasts. The first podcast marks the 15th Anniversary of Ireland’s ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – a convention the state constantly fail on. It’s [...]
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Note – please see this post for the latest on this matter. I won’t comment on the case as someone is now facing charges but as for the coverage – well some of the Irish print media spent the last few days libeling the dead. I do hope that a lot of time is spent [...]
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So she tells the Advocate when they ask her. Something is a bit strange about this – whilst the rumours about Hilary have been pedalled by her oponents for years why does it take a gay magazine which is very much against outing – (even the homophobes in Washington) – to ask her this question? [...]
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Sky News reports that Mourinho has left Stamford Bridge. BBC News 24 report that senior players received text messages this evening confirming Jose Mourinho’s departure So no more special one on Today FM? What will Mario Rosenstock do? I predict a No. 1 Record with a new version of ‘I think I better leave right [...]
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Conor Pope writes about consumer blogging and online activism in today’s Irish Times (something I’m not adverse to myself you might have noticed…I’d be interested in any reactions to the piece. I regularly check into Iwillnothold.com and ValueIreland – where you’ll see questions asked that are never asked in the mainstream media – particularly on [...]
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Thanks to Frank @ Cedar Lounge for letting me know that I’ll be missing Fr. John Harvey’s visit to the RDS Dublin tomorrow to speak at the Human Life International Conference. The talk I’ll be missing whilst doing some very queer shopping checking out all the dykes in Liffey Valley is entitled Homosexuality: Helping the [...]
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(If any Irish music/arts/culture bloggers can promote this I’d be grateful!) Press release which explains HD and the Guthrie Connection after the jump.
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otherwise titled Demand is hardly THE issue…(no porn here – move along lads) The reason many people will get irked when and if they hear one of the government’s excuses for poor broadband takeup (lack of demand by the public) being backed up by a prominent journalist is that many of us go down the [...]
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