“If you ask me one thing I could have done without in the last twelve months it’s social media” Jamie Bryson

photo by Brian O'Neill

I finally listened back to the discussion after December’s Transformative Networks – Social Media, Politics and Protests panel event at UU’s Belfast campus. The audio recording wasn’t particularly clear – a large room with everyone sitting around the edges – so at the time I didn’t upload the entire Q&A session. But some snippets are worth sharing for posterity. Harriet Long commented on the continued usefulness of long-form blogging in the age of micro-blogging: I write a blog which is …

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‘Dead tree’ columnist stereotypes bloggers as “articulate, intelligent … socially awkward misfits with zero personality”

Allison Morris’ column in Wednesday’s Irish News [paywall] starts with the observation that Twitter and Facebook now give “misogynists, racists, bigots, stalkers and lunatics … a potential global audience”, before taking a pop at bloggers who last got lightly toasted in her February 2012 column. Bloggers and those with a large ‘online presence’ can come across as articulate, intelligent and well informed when reading a post they have spent days obsessing over. However, when you meet them in the real …

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Introducing Broadsheet.ie (if you’ve not already met them)…

Great fun and often insightful political site keeping a watch on the comings and goings at Leinster House… Stories include: – Michael Lowry’s Facebook page… – Houses that look like TDs… – Meet Adolf Kitler… – Angry Birds Take on the Arab Spring… – Mulley ends the punk awards and more are born… – And one with a bit of bite (and research), Tescogate… Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the …

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