Bord Gáis Energy launched yesterday with their entry into the residential electricity market known as the Big Switch. There was lots of coverage on mainstream media outlets including quizzing of the electricity regulator (a man you never hear on the radio except for obligatory appearance when price rises are announced!) on News at One with […]
Tags:Bord Gáis·Consumer Rights·customerservice·Electricity Supply Board·Energy·Marketing·The Big Switch·Utilities·Virtual community
The first round of judging in the Irish Blog Awards has taken place in the past week and this blog has reached the long lists of the Best Politics Blog (Sponsored by Digital Revolutionaries) and Best News and Current Affairs Blog (Sponsored by IGO people). The long lists for all the categories were announced last […]
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Are you running in the forthcoming Local or European Elections? Do you blog, twitter or have a facebook supporters page, videoblog, bebo or myspace? Do you know a candidate who does? During the last election on Irish Election a number of us did regular roundups of candidates using social media and what was being said […]
Tags:Irish Elections·Politicians using social media·Social Media
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 […]
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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