One of the most active posts on my blog is the one about the Victoria Jackson make up sales people. A lot of people who worked for the company or who interviewed with them and other companies like them have left comments. (It seems these companies do marketing (AKA Sales) for a lot of other [...]
The Swedish Social Democratic Party invited two leading bloggers from the USA to give a seminar on blogging at the Almedal political conference. John Aravosis from Americablog and Jane Hamsher from the excellent FireDogLake were brought over to speak and the seminar was captured for Youtube. There is a lovely potted history of blogging in [...]
Tags:Americablog·Blog·Jane Hamsher·John Aravosis·Swedish Social Democratic Party
I’m getting comments and texts and having conversations with people wondering why I’m not blogging the election etc. – maybe I didn’t make it clear enough that during the campaign you’ll find me over on Irishelection.com Given work and surviving life it’s all I can muster at the moment. The odd post here when I [...]
Tags:Blog·Blogging·On the Web
I’ve never read so many UK blogs as I’ve read this weekend. I’ve always thought of UK politics blogs as being very aligned one way or the other and some of them of being quite a bitchfest. I’ve a few in my google reader and sometimes there will be a post which is more thought [...]
Tags:Blog·derekdraper·Guido Fawkes·Iain Dale·Labour·LabourList·Politics
Garett is running for Fianna Fáil in the forthcoming local election in the constituency of Pembroke/Rathmines. Can I make it through a post without mentioning his older brother? Well Garrett is far more web savvy than himself it seems – he still says the words ‘web blog’ with difficulty and well probably not appropriately but [...]
Tags:Ballsbridge·Blog·Fianna Fáil·Gareth Tubridy·Ireland·Politics
“This will be a very serious ardfheis.? Mary Coughlan, Tanaiste, Launch of Clar for 72nd Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis, 25/2/09 The Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis begins this evening and with this mornings opinion polls combined with/resulting from the recession and of course the little difficulties about the launch of the website during the week it [...]
You might realise that there is a culinary blogger trying to break out of this keyboard from time to time and many thanks to the team behind the wonderful CheapEats.ie for allowing me to write about some recommendations and wants in terms of restaurants and food in Dublin’s City Centre. The website is a brilliant [...]
Tags:Blog·Dublin·Food·Restaurant
You may remember that last year I was looking for recommendations for blogs about European Union affairs to read. Yesterday I read via Jon Worth’s blog of the launch of Bloggingportal.eu. It’s a blog syndicator but as opposed to a mere aggregator it has editors which rate posts and summarise them. We don’t think the [...]
Added to my feed reader and recommended reading but maybe not agreeing! (Now if only some Irish sociologists and social policy specialists could join them!) Group blogging at IrishEconomy.ie Gerard O’Neill at Turbulence Ahead Stephen Kinsella Michael Taft’s Notes from the Front (The Recession Diaries) David McWilliams Ronan Lyons Missed anyone? Leave links and recommendations [...]
Tags:Blog·Economists·Irish·Social Policy
Nominations for this year’s Irish Blog Awards have been open over a week and there is a week left and I’m only now getting round to thinking about who I’m going to nominate in some if not all of the 20 categories on offer this year. The awards this year are being held in the [...]
Tags:Blog·Cork International Airport Hotel·Irish Blog Awards
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