Thinking aloud for a bit. For years I have endured commentary from those in mainly the print media about the fact that bloggers can’t be trusted, have no editors or legitimacy. Despite asserting that blogging and mainstream journalism were different things, talking about crowd sourcing and fact checking and pointing to the fact that often […]
Entries Tagged as 'Blogging'
Look over there, quick, they are worse than we are
July 11th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Blogging, Irish Politics, Social Media
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Guest posts sought
May 25th, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest posts sought · Blogging
The time of year is nearly upon me when I head for tapas, vitamin D and some nice cold San Miguel. Last year I ran a series of guest posts during the course of my holidays and I think it was quite successful. If you are an organisation with a campaign or an issue you […]
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Weekend Supplements
February 5th, 2011 · Comments Off on Weekend Supplements · Blogging, Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics
Christine Bohan is writing excellent daily updates regarding the campaign on IrishElection.com. Dublin Central FG Candidate Paschal Donohue reflects on the end of Week one. The Big Ticket is a public debate between candidates to be held in Sligo next week. Get ready for the Leaders Debate with Leader Debate Bingo on Election2011.ie Claiming Our […]
In case you missed them
January 24th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Blogging, Irish Politics
– Independent Candidate for Cork South Central, David McCarthy, is blogging the campaign at Campaigntrail.ie It will be interesting to see if the Independent Alliance for Change he mentions develops and if this is a version of Profit Before People (Copyright – Miriam Lord) PDNua (Copyright mise agus Cathal) or the League of Extra Ordinary […]
Candidate Video #2 – Eoghan Murphy
January 15th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Social Media
Eoghan Murphy FG, Dublin South East (and yup the guy in the seat with the glasses in that pic) is all about the ‘new’ media, his website, his twitter, his facebook, his blog, and here’s his campaign launch video. (He has a whole youtube channel recently launched with all his recent media appearances on it!)