Saturday, March 01, 2008
Irish Blog Awards Live!
The Irish Blog Awards should be kicking off in a few moments (8.15 is the latest estimate). Sadly I won’t be there this year, though I hoped I would be. If you want to follow it life, La Nua Podcaster Conn is streaming it live at Edgecast, so you don’t miss a thing (service permitting). Looks like a full house…
Mick Fealty @ 07:56 PM
I expect the Young Unionists are gearing themselves up for a big prize
Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 02:06 AMMick
I don’t begrudge Irish Election. Never heard of Jett Loe until tonight, but on a cursory glance his blog seems to have little to do with NI.
Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 03:11 AMYep, looks like he’ decamped to Nashville… Looks like a retrospective award LTA started in Belfast. There’s even a Holywood (one ‘l’) special lurking in his archives. After that Granmar is NI, I think.
Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 08:10 AMMick
“- Best Irish Language goes to Conn (third time, I think)… “
Kinda surprised here, given than Conn sponsered the award and wasnt nominated.
My money was on Blag Shomhairle, disappointed for him now.
Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 08:56 AMI might have that wrong gg… I was subsisting off the sound on the live feed (too dark and indistinct for the pictures to work) and other people’s Twitter reports… We may have to wait for some official confirmation on that before
Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 09:04 AMFirstly bad luck Mick et all for not winning Ho Hum
Headphoneland won the best photoblog last year and Gavin is from here
Jett Loe deserves a mention and an honourary award just for coining the phrase “The Troublings”
Check out this which creased me up and the follow up was good toohttp://lettertoamerica.blogs.com/letter_to_america/2007/01/captain_planet_.html
Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 09:17 AMThat’s not a bad haul then, all in all. Just people ‘doin’ it’ and not making a fuss.
Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 10:08 AMMick-
“...seems that Northern Irish politics loses its ‘universal appeal’ somewhere about Dundalk.”
True, but the same could be said of southern politics north of Dundalk- the fact is that both types are equally ‘Irish’. However, those blogs operating from a northern perspective are likely to be disadvantaged compared with their southern cousins- the fact that southerners aren’t interested in northern politics (or other affairs) shouldn’t matter as they are still as relevant, but unfortunately I’m guessing that it does factor into the equation.
That said, the winners are certainly worthy of their respective accolades.
Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 12:32 PMEl Mat,
Fortnight this month is very good on this particular disjunture. Pete linked Malachi O’Doherty’s piece on this very subject.
Setting aside the question of the blog awards (the last thing we need is being hung out for having an epidemic of ‘sour grapes’), given the circular nature of politics in Northern Ireland, and the dynamic character of the southern economy the huge gap in political sensibilities between parties with a common root (and similar bottom up political structures) like Sinn Fein and Fianna Fail that disjuncture is hardly surprising.
We are two audiences facing (by and large) in opposite directions intent on watching different political codes.
Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 01:20 PMhttp://thefamilyvoyage.blogspot.com/ won last night and they are from belfast, I’m from Belfast and won an award last year and was shortlisted this year and other years. Other northern blogs were also shortlisted. I may live in Dublin but Im still northern.
I suppose these things can be subjective. We talked about this yesterday at the photomeet where one person interprets the criteria differently from someone else. Theres little you can do with that. In Mick’s best political blogs I felt there were glaring omissions, I think sometimes it is about what comes under your radar and rocks your boat.
Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 01:36 PMMick,
I am not sure but people are telling me I won the Irish language bit.
Did I win anything, dont know, dont know anything about the whole things.
BTW, I am pretty unpartitioned but I am an out and out Nordie and have been asked what part of Scotland I am from, maybe what I be blogging about is relevent both sides of the border or perhaps more likely what I be writting about is equally irrelevant both sides of the border and people just liked that banned picture (tG4 ad - sexy teacher) that I blogged two days before the event.
Go rabh maith agam.
Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 01:49 PMCongrats:
Best Use of the Irish Language in a Blog
Blag Ghael gan NáirePosted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 02:02 PMOther northern blogs were also shortlisted
Not only that, but there were a couple of Unionist ones too.
Apparently;)Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 02:06 PMI thought the award was best political blog, not best blog about southern or northern politics or indeed Irish politics, there is an enormous difference, is there not?
Well done to all the winners and for me those who failed to take a prize, for in my eyes they are all winners, for they have all contributed to making the political space that bit larger and more democratic.
Whilst the political blog winner was excellent during the period of the elections, blogging is also about stamina as anyone who blogs will know when they sit at the keyboard without a thought in their head ;) so it would not have been my choice for best political blog, personally I cannot see how it can be.
Susan
I thought this year the winners were not picked on a public vote?
Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 02:31 PMIIRC Mick and myself have both contributed to Irish Election (even if only very occasionally), so perhaps that technically makes us part-winners ;)
Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 07:00 PMThanks Mark McGregor for setting the record straight. Yes - Gael gan Náire did win the Irish language award, but he/she wasn’t there. I was the sponsor, so I accepted in on Gael’s behalf.
Gael Gan Náire is an entirely anonymous blog, and I have no idea who’s behind it. However, from what I can gather it would appear that the author is in the North, so it seems that in this case, at least, there is no border effect!
Sorry the live stream quality was not up to scratch. It wasn’t officially arranged that such a service be provided, but I simply happened to have the equipment with me for another purpose. I figured I might as well give it a try!
My real purpose on the night was the production of an audio podcast. This will be published in the next few days.
Le gach dea ghuí,
ConnPosted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 02:46 PMOops - hadn’t noticed the comment from Gael Gan Náire, when I left mine!
Also, in addition to http://thefamilyvoyage.blogspot.com/ as mentioned above, Grannymar from Co. Antrim (http://grannymar.com/blog/) was joint winner of the Best Personal Blog.
Full list: http://www.mamanpoulet.com/?p=336
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 04:53 PM
