Nice innovation from the IFA, in the shape of a podcast interview with Caroline Menary the new marketing bod behind a vigorous billboard campaign to get people to come to Irish League matches for the first time… Good start, look forward to hearing more… Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and …
With sport dealt with.. time for a civilising interlude. The New Yorker’s new poetry editor Paul Muldoon proves a crisp and lively, entertaining and illuminating interviewee in this New Yorker podcast – direct link to mp3 file here. The self-declared member of the school against schools talks about the state of poetry, reading, writing and editing, his lectures on The End of The Poem, and structures that just work. There’s also time in the 17 minutes for the rudimentary rhythm …
Near Earth Objects, such as the Geminids’ 3200 Phaethon, don’t just pose a potential risk to Earth. One NEO, 2007 WD5, was only identified on 20 November this year and, having been eliminated as a potential threat to Earth, is now heading towards Mars – ETA 30 January 2008. Interactive 3D orbit diagram here [Java req]. NASA astronomers calculate that the chance of a collision with Mars, by the approximately 50m wide asteroid, is currently 1 in 75, although there …
Here’s a short snippet of an interview Radio Ulster carried of Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness in Washington last week. Martin seems keener on the ‘official’ message of how they are all now on the same side. But nevertheless, the permafrost seems to have all but disappeared. It’s not yet not the end of history in some places. Will it be productive? Retiring US Consul Dean Pittman seems to think so. As McGuinness points out there is a huge curiosity …
Tonight we wrap up on the elections of last week. I’m joined at the top of the programme by Sammy Morse and Chris Donnelly, who spent most the campaign walking the mean streets of Lagan Valley to bring home Paul Butler for Sinn Fein. Then with house prices falling, and the stock market beginning to dip we ask is there a chill wind blowing from west (the US) and east (China), and are we going to catch a cold. Business …
Fascinating conversation with John Simpson and Jamie Delargy kicking around some of the most pressing issues facing any new devolved administration. Simpson makes the point that what we are voting for is less a government, than a political opposition to the real seat of power, 11 Downing Street. We go on to talk about some of the risks attached to one of the few issues there seems some degree of consensus on, the lowering of corporation tax, and assess the …
This evening we begin the programme slightly earlier than usual at 7.30. We kick off with an interview with Mitchel McLaughlin on his way to a public meeting in Crumlin tonight. Then we hope to hear from Ciaran Mussen, the guitar playing Green with the big money backing (at Eastwoods that is), before turning the back end of the programme over to our two resident number crunchers, Sammy Morse and Gordon Lucy. Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. He …
In case you missed it, you can pick up the download from BlogTalkRadio (mind it will just start playing when you hit the link). Adrian Eastwood reported a surge in money moving in the election yesterday (their Slugger ad began running then, which suggests there is more value in that space that we anticipated), with the biggest single sums backing three Green candidates. Suffice to say, that if Ciaran Mussen pulls off the improbable, Mr Eastwood will be paying back …
Tonight we start a little later than scheduled, at 9pm. We are lucky enough to have Sammy Morse and Gordon Lucy to go through the constituency battles that catch their, bring us up to date on the local detail and give us their views on where the battlegrounds for both Unionism and Nationalism lie… We hope to have Adrian Eastwood to talk about the odds he’s offering this time. And later we hope to be joined by one the independent …
A reminder that you can listen to the last three BlogTalk radio shows, complete with interviews with David Ford, Alex Attwood and Reg Empey. Tomorrow night’s programme (starts at 8.30 GMT) will focus on the psephological detail, and we hope to have a number of experts on to give their view (including a short slot from one of Ulster’s leading bookmakers), as well as another discursive interview with a leading political figure. Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. He …
Slugger Radio is next on Wednesday night. But on BlogTalk Radio tonight: Senator Kerry will be joined by Senior Political Director James Boyce and Nate Wilcox, co-hosts of the show Heading Left. The live and archived show can be found here. Senator Kerry will be discussing his views on the President’s handling of the Iraq war and how we should proceed over the next year. Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of …
We have Alex Attwood on Slugger Radio tomorrow night at 8.30. It is the second in an developing series of interactive radio. David Vance will be joining one or two other guests to look at the issues arising from the St Andrew’s ‘deal’ from a unionist perspective. And Pete and I will will be chewing over two or three issues from the last week. Even so the format is loose and conversational, in order that anyone can call us when …
Tomorrow night we kick off a series of broadcast/podcast ‘blog radio’ programmes, each with different themed conversation. Tomorrow, we ask: Do we have a deal, or not? Using BlogTalkRadio, we’ll broadcast the ‘programme’ at 9pm GMT tomorrow and then within fifteen minutes it should be archived and available for download online. Even better, listeners can call in during recording and join in the conversation (though at the moment, the access numbers are US based!). Pete will help us get the …
Things are warming up on the media coverage of tomorrow’s Blogging Conference in Dublin. Cian and I had a fairly vigorous discussion on the Tubridy Show this morning. The discussion is the last item on the RTE site, or you can listen to the rough cut mp3 file. Don’t forget to book your place! Installment two is in about 20 minutes on Newstalk, featuring Guido and Cian. Update: Looks like it’s been moved off the agenda by Bertiegate!The programme: 10:00-10:30 …
Last week we caught up with top Tory blogger Iain Dale to ask him about his party’s raising of the West Lothian question (download from here). He notes that for all the recent furore around West Lothian question it was in the last Conservative manifesto. He argues that if the presentation has not been everything it should have been, the party is right to raise English unease at a perceived imbalance in the wider relationships of the UK. Indeed, he …
It’s been a while since the last edition of Slugger Radio. Even now, I’ve not quite figured out how to make it available to iTunes users. This edition contains an interview with Sean Farren, some extracts from David McWilliams’ Big Bite programme, and then we sign off with a very wry look at our own idiosyncrasies from the point of view of two Dublin Trolls (courtesy of Overhere). You can download straight from the site. Hopefully our bandwidth can withstand …
Radio Slugger. After some spluttering and bumping into metaphorical and some painfully real technological walls, we finally have the first edition of our podcast, formally known as
