Category: Blogging

I never got round to blogging about the excellent blog dinner arranged by Tom Raftery, here in Cork last week. What struck me was that, as far as I am aware, it took the arrival of a foreign (I use the term politely) blogger in order to get the biggest gathering of Irish bloggers in…

The Dossing Times notes of me: Gavins Blog. For some reason this blog always has a nice friendly atmosphere to it and I have no idea why. Always links to interesting articles and founder of www.irishcorruption.com/ Is there any reason why it would not have a nice friendly atmosphere? Hehe.

My handle on Skype is ‘gavinsblog’, if anyone in the Irish blogosphere wants to add me.

I will be going skiing in the desert for Christmas, later in the day I will retire to the beach 😉 I would also hope to do some podcasting from Dubai over the holidays.

Reaction has been quite positive to the idea of a podcast with a panel discussion, perhaps via Skype. I would probably use Audacity, but have yet to purchase a microphone – where is a good website for buying good quality mics in Ireland?

I have been thinking about how to approach adding new content to the blog – I guess I have shortlisted in my mind a number of ideas. Firstly, digests. A weekly Economist digest, with the best of its content (in my opinion anyway), with other periodical digests such as the Atlantic or FP, or indeed…

I have a backlog of stuff the post from the last week or so, best to post it all at once I guess.

DL tries to compile a list of the top Irish blogs on the basis of inlinks via Technorati. A difficult task given Technorati’s increasing unreliability. I do note that Donncha is missing from the list, I do envy his rather stratospheric inlink status. As Frank notes, I do remember that a few more link to…

As a blogger I have developed an unhealthy preoccupation with analysing readership. I don’t generally let it affect my output, but I do like looking at how people come here, where they are from, and assorted other statistical information. One thing has stood out in recent months with regard to visitors to this blog. I…

Dan Drezner points to a recent survey by Pew on internet habits. He notes the figures for: “the proportion of that daily population who are doing some well-known internet activities”: Email 77% Search engine 63% Get news 46% Do job-related research 29% Use instant messaging 18% Do online banking 18% Take part in chat room…