JUst as I was getting out of the car to go and do a short slot on Good Morning Ulster yesterday morning, I heard the trailer for Will Crawley’s documentary on blogging in Northern Ireland. It’s on at 11.30 tomorrow morning and includes some new voices from the blogosphere… Hopefully with a useful mix of ‘believers’ and ‘blog sceptics’.
How has Ulster unionism arrived at where it is today – fractured and uncertain, yet dominated electorally by the DUP, a party that tells us it offers unionists sure footing in uncertain times? In his latest book, Ulster’s Last Stand? Reconstructing Unionism after the Peace Process (Irish Academic Press, 2010), Prof. James McAuley from the [...] read our review »
If you want to get a flavour of the proceedings at the Political Studies Association conference on its opening day, then the Storify collation below will bring you some of the images, tweets and sounds of the day. Particular highlights included: the Opening Plenary with David Blunkett, Peter Riddell and Matthew Flinders; and the late [...] read our review »
missed this, but cannot find it on BBC Radio Ulster to play back, anyone have address please?
I just listened to it. It was on at 11.30 today on the programme, The Documentary.
It’s up here for the next wee while.
There’s a link to the audio of that documentary on the bbc blog itself. I thought it was great to have a documentary on blogging in NI. Hopefully this will encourage people here to catch up with the technology and the conversation.
What about that guy Newton Emerson? Blogging has no future he says and it’s not really journalism anyway it’s just a bunch of nuts ranting at each other. No, Newton, that’s the Stephen Nolan Show and you never say no to an invitation there!