Archive for January, 2008
I am crying, writing this*
Thursday, January 31st, 2008A laurel, and hearty handshake to everyone long-listed for this year’s Irish Blog Awards. I mean that sincerely, even to the blogs I’ve never heard of or don’t like.
Neither AdamMaguire.com nor Dáil30.ie got onto the list, which is a little sad but far from a surprise. Both blogs, particularly Dáil30.ie, have been treading water over […]
A senior source at IBA HQ has told me…
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008An hour ago I received a phonecall.
“I have information that could be big. Meet me at the McDonalds car park at 6pm sharp. I’ll be dressed as a covert spy. Don’t be late.”
The caller hung up before I could compose myself and say a word.
What should I do? Was this for real? Was […]
Falling Slowly is good to go
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008As Jim noted earlier, the “Falling Slowly Saga”, as I’ve just dubbed it now, is over.
I got this email response to a query I lodged with the Academy on Monday afternoon:
The Academy’s Music Branch Executive Committee has met and endorsed the validity of “Falling Slowly” as a nominated achievement. The committee relied on written […]
Meta-Viral
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008So a couple of days ago a video pops up on the internet of a TV news blooper where a bird craps in a reporter’s mouth while he’s on location.
Here:
It seems pretty real up until the “money shot”, at which point the reporter’s reaction seems a little staged.
Unsurprisingly, the newly released “Behind The Scenes” video […]
Is ‘Falling Slowly’ really being investigated?
Sunday, January 27th, 2008I picked up The Sunday Tribune today largely because of the front-page reference to ‘Falling Slowly’, the freshly Oscar-nominated song from surprise Irish hit ‘Once’.
The front-page lead-in reads “Could Once be disqualified? - Irish film’s Oscar hopes in doubt” with the headline of the article itself (written by Una) reading “Hollywood probe to decide if […]
Sunday paper review at 8:45
Saturday, January 19th, 2008I’ll be doing the Sunday newspaper review on Newstalk’s ‘Culture Shock’ at around 8:45.
Tune in online, on your TV or on your radio if you want to know what’ll be on tomorrow’s front pages tonight.
On The Last Word to talk about MacBook Air
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008I’ll be on Today FM’s The Last Word at around 6:20 to talk about Apple’s newly launched MacBook Air.
Tune in if you can, online or on the radio.
Nominations for the IBA2008
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008In case you hadn’t already noticed, the nomination process for the Irish Blog Awards 2008 is well under way and is indeed nearly finished phase 1.
So if you haven’t already you really should get over there before Friday and put forward your nominations for the various awards. You don’t have to nominate someone for all […]
Irish Times merges print and web operations
Monday, January 14th, 2008According to The Sunday Tribune (and via Greenslade), The Irish Times Ltd. has merged its print and internet news rooms in recent weeks, as part of a move towards becoming Ireland’s first 24-hour newsroom.
Ireland.com had previously been operated by a subsidiary of The Irish Times Ltd. called Itronics Ltd, but will now integrate with the […]
TV3’s new current affairs programme debuts tonight
Monday, January 14th, 2008Initially meant to begin airing in late 2007, TV3’s Nightly News with Vincent Browne is to finally debut tonight at around 11pm.
The programme replaces the station’s News Tonight programme, which was a straight-forward news round-up, and promises to “go behind the headlines to take an in-depth look at the stories of the day”, whatever that […]
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