Archive for March, 2006
SBP online music article (26th March)
Sunday, March 26th, 2006Today’s Sunday Business Post features and article I wrote on the online music market, You can view the piece on their site here.
The article is connected to a recent post on my blog in relation to the pre-order campaign for Pearl Jam’s upcoming album; people who preorder the CD on their site will be able […]
The Irish Times Blogging article (21st March)
Friday, March 24th, 2006Apologies for the delay in putting this piece up, I’ve been knocked for six over the last few days and am just getting myself back on track.
Below is my piece which featured in The Irish Times on Tuesday 21st of March; it is an interview with Cian O’Flaherty of Irishelection.com. The article was teamed with […]
Irishelection.com in the Irish Times
Monday, March 20th, 2006Todays (Tuesday 21st March) Irish Times features a large piece on blogging in the upcoming Irish Election.
As part of the feature I interviewed Cian O’Flaherty of Irishelection.com about his new site, what its goal is and what role he sees it playing come May 2007.
The piece is available to view here (subs required). I’ll post […]
Anti-social media
Sunday, March 19th, 2006Piaras has posted a great blog which details a fresh debate that social media must face; privacy.
Extremely popular sites like Bebo are fitting in perfectly with the snap-happy culture that digital and picture phones have created. While a well placed and adequately equiped bystander is a great tool of Citizen journalism in newsworthy situations on […]
All wrapped up in a neat little package?
Saturday, March 18th, 2006Northern Ireland, when is it ever? Then again, God loves those who try.
Bertie Ahern stated yesterday that the new plan for devolved government would be announced in “around three weeks time”. Considering that this blueprint is being billed as the ‘take it or leave it’ offer, is it possible that the two governments are hoping […]
IEB: FG/Labour unity a big bonus
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006Also posted in:
Say what you will about the detail of the policy document launched by Fine Gael and Labour but you cannot deny that the pre-election pact of the two parties is proving to be an early success in the bid for Government.
As it stands the Progressive Democrats sparked a mini-tussle within the government when […]
Merging digital and physical music
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006One of the greatest challenges facing all modern media is that buzzword “convergence”; it’s usually used to describe a product that is a bit of everything, a TV, radio, phone, computer, video and audio recorder etc. It would suggest that a concept has been merged with another to deliver the perks of both in one […]
IEB: The Sinn Fein issue
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006Over the coming months there will be one question thrown to Bertie Ahern, Enda Kenny, Pat Rabbitte and Mary Harney alike; “will you go into government with Sinn Fein?”.
In previous elections the answer has always been a resounding ‘no’, and rightly so. In 2002 the IRA was still armed to the teeth and doing dodgy […]
The latest trial by media
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006On-going developments in the Rachel O’Reilly case have created another trial by media in Ireland.
Tuesday, 14th of March saw a man being arrested in connection to the murder. The man, who had been arrested before, was later released without charge. The man’s girlfriend is currently being questioned in relation to the case also.
RTÉ put the […]
The Irish Times, the Dublin riots and me
Monday, March 13th, 2006In the aftermath of the violence in Dublin at the end of February I wrote a piece in relation to the riots and social media. It was mildy critical of RTÉ and full of praise for Irish bloggers. In all the piece heralded the first victory for the rising Social Media scene in Ireland.
As a […]
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