So says the FT in its lead editorial today. As it points out the real motif in the second wave of internet disruption is that producers of content no longer control its distribution. It mines the tough lessons that have been learned by the music industry: These companies spent a long time first trying to ignore online music and then attempting to make it work exactly as they preferred. It took an outsider in Steve Jobs of Apple to devise …
We don’t have a hope in hell much of a chance of taking the bragging rights from Norm, but with the polls closing at 11:59 PM (US – Eastern) December 15, there are, I reckon, two more opportunities for you to register a vote in the Best UK Blog Award category.. if you haven’t already voted today that is.. we do have a chance of grabbing 6th place, out of 15 nominees.. which wouldn’t be too shabby for an adorable …
Spotted by the Eagle-eyed John Fay. Columnist with the Sunday Times in Ireland, Alan Ruddock, stopped by the Guardian’s Media section to give his thoughts on the way the Irish media is covering the Irish Ferries dispute[reg may be required, or try BugMeNot] The Irish media operate in a bubble that shields them from an evolving Irish society. Journalists are rarely sacked and can expect a job for life once they have union membership and a staff position. Culturally, they …
Well, according to Matt Welch in the latest Reason Online very bad.
Hot on the heels of Red Mum’s coup in the Echo, EirePreneur notes that Con has a column in the Irish-language daily Lá and also reveals that Bernie of Irish Eyes blog, 1 millionth page view under his belt, appears in the most recent edition of the Sunday Business Post’s quarterly magazine icon.. which doesn’t appear to be online. Bernie, however, seems somewhat reluctant to reveal that particular news, but does point out that Slugger O’Toole is profiled in icon, …
Here’s a story to keep an eye on. Some of the biggest bloggers in the US have clubbed together to make a big big blog. Only, since it launched on 16th November, it has not been plain sailing. Mostly because the end result of a lot of thinking and a lot of money, doesn’t much resemble a blog. Thanks to David for the heads up! Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of …
I have to note this, the BBC NI’s Stephen Nolan has just pointed to an on-air text vote on his TV programme, Nolan Live!, as evidence of public opinion.. in this case, on the value-for-money of MLAs.. 91% said No!.. which amounted to around 5,000 texts.. from a self-selecting sample.. Doesn’t the BBC have a single statistician on the staff?.. doesn’t any member of that programme, or the editorial staff, know the phone number of a statistician? Sheesh. Pete Baker
Talking about influence. Slugger is one of the blogs featured in 2005: Blogged. I can’t venture an opinion on it as a piece of work just yet, since the free contributor’s copy hasn’t arrived. It’s going for a decent price at Amazon! But if it manages to make the jump from online to in print successfully, it has occured to me that the could be a book in Slugger’s last three and a half years. Publishers – you’ve got my …
Baited breath for the verdict from Norman Johnson (aka Harry of Harry’s Place) in today’s Guardian. He’s clearly pleased with the G2 piece on blogging influencers. We don’t get a mention, but he expands impressively on the one theme from my own interview that made it into print – ie how blogging affects (infects?) mainstream political and journalistic discourse. Often in very high places: But Oliver was right about one big thing. Big time. The bloggers’ voices are being heard. …
Spotted by Hugh. After yesterday’s coverage, by G2, of the new commentariat, Guardian readers’ today give their verdict.. well the letters page editor selects three examples and adds a suitably dismissive heading.. perhaps strangely, neither the GNewsBlog, nor the GTechnologyBlog didn’t.. blog it that is. ANYway, the actual article was the 4th most read article on the Guardian website on Thursday.And, like Hugh, I’ll also note the letter by Dr Flewers – One key feature of internet discussion is just …
Paul Mason has stuck close to developments in new media and has a better handle on it than most. His end commentary from last night’s Newsnight programme is worth repeating. It’s just a shame the BBC could not find any articulate bloggers to join the studio debate, which insofar as it talked about blogging’s challenge to the media resorted to staid old potboilers like, “Well we have a reporter there!.. blogs don’t!” Mason follows the real blog story (video file): …
Several blogs have already noted the pose adopted by Minister for Defence Willie O’Dea for the front page photograph in the Irish Times, Gavin Sheridan has the picture too.. and notes the filename used by the IT.. “makemyday”.. I’m sure there are a number of alternatives.. as Dick OBrien suggests and Deaglan is looking for a better caption.. Do you feel lucky?.. Well, do ya, punk? Update As Mick has pointed out in the comments, the Minister is being criticised …
And it isn’t a pretty sight. The US magazine Forbes.com was, correctly, pilloried for its “Attack of the Blogs”[subs req] article recently, as noted by the Guardian Newsblog, which pointed to Dan Gillmour’s corrective. Today the Irish Times produces its own version of the attacking blogs story.. “Truth runs riot in the unruled land of the web blog”[subs also req]. The intro to the article sets the scene – “Brian Boyd went surfing for far-out views on the French riot …
Richard Delevan has his journalist’s hat on in today’s Sunday Tribune [now available online with free reg] to take his hero, Vincent Browne, to task for his call for a press council composed of representatives of “the judiciary, trade unions, business organisations, the Equality Authority, women’s groups and NGOs.”[free reg.] – a call that, as Mick noted here, the Broom of Anger also took exception to.As Richard indicates in his Sunday Tribune column, there is the small, but not unimportant, …
Máirtín Ó Muilleoir finds time to applaud the Brilliant Masses [all 8,762 of them] who score a little victory every day.. when they buy a copy of the Daily Ireland. Interestingly, he claims to have attracted seven-figure support from investors after a “second funding round” – How is that petition going?. He also claims that the Daily Ireland team’s response, to the countless brickbats, has been “to stay in the only gear they know — forward.”.. apart from that slight …
Thanks to the Broom for an excellent fisk of Vincent Browne’s thoughts on a new Press Council for the Republic. Perhaps too much Irish media criticism amounts to little other than political angst about the ‘means of production’ belonging to the ‘wrong’ people, Browne does not disappoint. He does not to want anyone from Fianna Fail, or the Independent Newspaper group on board. Instead he wants civil society to be the ultimate arbiters of what is good and bad in …
At The Front Page, Emily Bearn isn’t impressed by the general media’s setting up camp at Cromwell Hospital in an attempt to cover George Best’s condition on a minute-by-minute basis – see examples here, here, here, here, here and here. How about giving George Best, his family and friends and the staff of the hospital – not to mention the other patients – a little dignity and space.. and move the caravan on? Pete Baker
The Britain and Ireland site has been live for nearly a week now. But we have a launch reception at the Institute of Governance in Queens tomorrow evening starting at six o’clock. Trevor Ringland, former Irish rugby International and British and Irish Lion will be giving the keynote speech for the first sports related issue. If you want to come along let Catherine know at [email protected] or call 00 353 (0)1 707 1929. Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. …
We are still working on getting the comments back, although I know it’s killing some of our bloggers to know what people think of the various issues we kick up through the various blogs, as much as it has frustrated some of you not being able to have your say! The company doing the transfer is working as quickly as it can, but it is a complex procedure if we are to retain all the back stories from the last …
Good news. The cost of the re-fit of Slugger is going to cost £500 plus VAT with an additional $150 for the new software. That just about matches the amount that your generous numbers of £10s and £20s have brought in in just under a week. We’re hoping to get the ball rolling as soon as possible. In the mean time we all owe Abi and River Path a huge vote of thanks for keeping us afloat in all kinds …
