Category: Blogging

  • That time again…

    Gavin’s Blog is seven years old today. 🙂 Thank you to all my readers over the years.

  • Daniel Hannan MEP

    He spoke at a social event last night, right at the end of Reboot Britain, though the event was technically unrelated to Reboot. Mr Hannan is now well known for his speech to the European Parliament, which was picked up by Fox News. I recorded his informal speech via Qik:

  • Reboot Britain

    Some thoughts and random quotes from the day: Watching Gillian Tett from the FT explain the background of the problems with derivatives that led to the current financial mess. Jenni Russell is giving some good anecdotes about dealing with lazy ass politicians. We need a way to eat away at the bunker mentality. Jenni only…

  • Weekend ahead

    My geekiness appears to know no bounds. This weekend I travel to London to attend several events: * I hope to get to Open Tech 2009 on Saturday. * Then the Travelling geeks Tweetup on Sunday. * And then the Reboot Britain conference on Monday. And I have my eyes on the Personal Democracy Forum…

  • Iran protests

    A 6 minute graphic video with music. Some very graphic scenes. It portrays the first week or so of protests. It is interesting: all recorded by amateurs, produced and edited and put online for the consumption of the entire world. Total monetary cost: next to nothing. Amazing world we live in.

  • Irish Central

    Like many Irish bloggers, I received an email from Niall O’Dowd’s new venture IrishCentral.com. Dear Gavin, As a prominent blogger in the Irish community, we would like you to be among the first to know about the launch of IrishCentral.com, the first-ever global Irish website and social networking community. The site is going live on…

  • Stewart vs Cramer

    It’s been confirmed. CNBC pundit Jim Cramer will appear tonight as a guest on Jon Stewart’s show – perhaps to finally put to bed the ongoing feud. The most recent clip detailing the feud is up. Stewart talking to Dora the Explorer was very funny! The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p /…

  • New Irish blogger

    My colleague at the Irish Examiner, Adrian Russell, has finally started blogging. It only took nearly three years of badgering to get him to agree to the idea. He will mainly be blogging about sports. He expects lots of traffic from me, so please do go take a gander.

  • Green Party Ard Fheis 2009

    I made it here this morning and am updating on Twitter with the hashtag #gp09. You can also follow over at Scribble. 12.30: Got a good picture of Senator Dan Boyle playing with an iPhone before he takes to the stage shortly. 15.40: Someone in the Green party has apparently let slip that the date…

  • Tubridy and blogging

    I had a listen to Damien, Suzy and Val on the Tubridy show earlier. And I have to say, I felt embarrassed for Mr Tubridy. Last time I checked the year was 2009. But it was as if Tubridy was in 2004 or 2005 and blogging was still all new and shiny. I was asked…