Category: Blogging

Apologies for the hiatus folks, I was drowning my sorrows after Ireland’s defeat on Saturday. There is still a slim chance of winning the Championship I guess…

Some of these blogs are new, while others have only recently appeared on my radar: Bumpf doesn’t give much away, but lots of Irish-related stuff. Some interesting stuff over at chicks dig unix dorkus mallorkus reminds me that I really do have to get Star Wars: Republic Commando. Half-Life 2, Doom 3 and Rome: Total…

Kevin Drum has a fascinating diagram of cross linking between blogs on the Right and Left of the political spectrum in the US. It is all in relation to a study by Lada Adamic and Natalie Glance which you can find here(PDF).

I just watched Jeff Jarvis‘ blog roundup stint on MSNBC for the first time. How far ahead the US is in terms of blog coverage – not only do newspapers and journals roundup the blog news, now TV news stations do too. Fascinating.

Kevin Drum and Hugh Hewitt link to a piece by American Prospect Senior Editor Garance Franke-Ruta. Franke-Ruta argues that much of the Conservative blogosphere in the US is not really citizen hackery, but more like organised conservative mobs. As Drum quotes: Right-wing blogs…increasingly provide cover for professional operatives to conduct traditional politics by other means…

Back to the wee island of Ireland, blogging shall now resume.

Sorry for the lack of contribution on the vigorous debate folks, and indeed for the lack of posting. I am in London at the moment and hope to get to some events before I return to Ireland on Tuesday. Please make allowances for my lack of posting until then! Cheers.

What to say? The level of response to my post on Irish political blogging was certainly not what I expected. I was away from a computer all day, but I did get home to read some harsh criticisms. Pointedly, FMK made her(his?) views explicit: there’s a lot of blogs (/sites) in the “irish blogosphere” that…