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A poem for the day – Launching the Whaler Juan Peron
A Belfast epic, and one of my oldest poems, the opener of my first collection, Grub. The gist of the story was found in Moss & Hume’s Shipbuilders to the World: 125 Years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, 1861-1986, which tells how Eva Peron was due to launch a huge whaling vessel in Belfast, built [...] read our review » -
Do Words Matter?: Book Review of Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution – Debating Peace in Northern Ireland
I share many of the concerns of Andy Pollak, whose recent post ‘My Response to the Slugger Begrudgers’ zeroed in on the ‘relentless flow of negativity’ of some Slugger commentators. Pollak’s post was largely concerned with the medium of the blog. Indeed, I think the anonymity of the online world encourages extreme discourse and allows [...] read our review »
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“You can see Newton’s mind at work…”
To add to the open access treasure trove at the Royal Society, Cambridge University Library is putting online some of its collection of books, maps, manuscripts and journals. We have called the first phase of our work on the Cambridge Digital Library the Foundations Project, which runs from mid-2010 to mid-2013 and has been made possible [...] read our review »
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Comment on Irish blogosphere too dominated by the voices of angry ‘adolescents’ to be taken seriously…
on 22 December 2009 at 12:44 am
While there were a couple of good points in the article, I was very surprised that the author ever thought (a) that blogs were a perfect substitute for newspapers, and (b) that blogs were going to conquer all fields (including newspapers).
The vast majority of blogs were only ever going to be people testing it out and then deciding it was an awful lot of hassle. The rise of Twitter is inextricably linked to the ease with which one can publish 140 characters many times a day, compared to 140 words many times a week.
One thing he could have mentioned, but didn’t, and one thing that I think has been more unexpected, is the blurring of the lines between blogs and other websites, such as this august institution and irisheconomy.ie. For what it’s worth, WordPress and its ever growing army of plug-ins are extremely useful (but not necessary) in the growing blurring of the lines.
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