Late last year Simon McGarr launched a competition and a website called Votetube. Lots of us think it is a great idea. Some of us had organised a conference on politics and blogging the election and there was talk about the impact of uploading videos and elections.. Some politicians take to blogging and videocasting on [...]
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Votetube with whiskers
March 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Blogging, Irish Blog Awards, Irish Media, Irish Politics, irishblogcon, irishelection2007, Social Media
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Happy New Year and Blogging the Election
January 3rd, 2007 · 4 Comments · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, irishblogcon, irishelection2007, Personal, Social Media
Well It’s been quiet at Maman Poulet the last few weeks as I’ve travelled around abit doing festive things and today started a new job which due to the nature of the work involved I won’t be blogging about! Mulley is doing his usual 500 things at the one time and the blog awards date [...]
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Paper Round ala Maman Poulet
December 18th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, irishblogcon, irishelection2007, Social Media
Excuse me whilst I have a tuppence inspired paper round moment! The Irish Independent tells us today that Fine Gael’s Jim O’Leary is breaking new ground in webcasting his message for the under 35 age group and he’s paying some company money for it too! Should have gone to the Blogging the Election Conference Jim [...]
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Good Morning, Links on Monday
November 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Irish Politics, irishblogcon, irishelection2007, Lesbian, LGBT, Same Sex Partnerships, Social Media
Save Britney’s Marriage Why do Black people never win Reality TV Shows? A Woman Politician Blogs – Welcome to the Blogosphere, Councillor Phil Prendergast. And I think a new Irish political term has been launched – Doing a ‘Dominic’!!!! Air guitarists may no longer be playing just air. Damm technology…
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Blogging from the back row, the bus and the sitting room
October 10th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, irishblogcon, irishelection2007, Social Media
Imagine the scene – live blogging the one day party conferences being held in the run up to the general election - or maybe the press conferences being held during the campaign itself. Oh I see it now – all along the back row with our sponsored 3g or Vodafone wireless cards and Aspoke.com screen covers [...]
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Wrap up
October 7th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics, irishblogcon, irishelection2007, Social Media
Aren’t the Blogging the Election Team all a happy bunch. (read shattered) This event does not end with a plenary - instead it ends on the blogosphere….ie. the debate and discussion continues and more events are to come. I forgot to mention Ciaran Cuffe T.D.’s op-ed piece in this mornings Irish Times, it’s a very good [...]
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Libel and the dissappearing women
October 7th, 2006 · 5 Comments · Blogging, Irish Politics, irishblogcon, irishelection2007, Social Media
Other than blogging @ Maman Poulet, I’m administrator and site owner of SapphicIreland.com – Ireland’s largest forum for lesbian and bisexual women – Simon McGarr is now onto the area of forums and moderating and libel. I’ll be looking for more info after today and minding my back! There are no women speakers at this event. We tried [...]
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Apres Lunch
October 7th, 2006 · No Comments · Blogging, Irish Politics, irishblogcon, irishelection2007, Social Media
Apologies to the vegetarians, the sandwich people were not very considerate at all….. Simon McGarr of McGarr Solicitors (and Tuppenceworth.ie) is currently taking us through an introductory crash course in Libel Law. Red Mum’s Flickr Stream is up here More laptops appearing this afternoon (well I have handed out more wireless keys so I assume [...]
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Nearly Lunchtime….
October 7th, 2006 · No Comments · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, irishblogcon, irishelection2007, Podcasting
Down the back of the room there are laptops out and camera’s in overdrive so lots of posts and photo’s up already on the web about the Conference. Have a look at Slugger O’Toole, Irisheyes Flickr Stream and (Roger?) from Irishblogs.blogs.ie. Red Mum is busy taking pics and promising to upload them later. And Bernie is [...]
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Blogging the Election
October 7th, 2006 · No Comments · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, irishblogcon, irishelection2007, Social Media
And we’re off…. Blogging the Election is underway in Dublin’s Digital Hub. Little did I think when I wondered about the possibility of a conference on blogging the election last July that I would be sitting here today watching it/making it happen. Gathered are bloggers, want to be bloggers, politicians, and media analysts and others. The [...]
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