Are you ready to rumble?*
A lot of rattles being thrown out of the playpen lately. It what can only be described as a Royal Rumble, Irish bloggers have been locking horns over various contentious issues.
First into the ring is Sigla Mag with their piece The Blogosphere - Racing To See Who’s First To The Bottom? In it, Feargal McKay attacks the “peddling of rumour as fact” in two prominent Irish blogs, Gavin’s Blog and Slugger O’Toole. McKay says that this isn’t a personal attack, but his apology rings hollow after the particularly caustic “What “sources” were Slugger and Gavin relying on? Pop Bitch?” remark.
Next two contestants are the Freedom Institute and Year of the Big Drought. Their wrangle concerned the current shoot-to-kill policy being employed by the London Met. The man off the beer for a year asks that the FI apologise for their piece on the issue. I would link to it, but this blog has taken the stance not to link to the FI, once famously described as right-wing fascists by Thinking Out Loud at a recent blog get-together. As Jim Ross would say, “this one’s going to be a slobberknocker”.
With baby oil applied and the gravel voice flexed, the next two to take to the canvas are Dick O’Brien of Back Seat Drivers and Richard Waghorne of the FI, yet again. Just when you thought the love-in was going to continue after compliments were paid for the recent logo change, Richard Waghorne stings Dick by saying that his analysis on the recent Irish-Yank Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance was “DOA”. This could be a rematch …
Finally, a match up took place two weeks ago between the Irish Examiner’s Eoin English and Archiseek’s Paul Clerkin. In his blog, Clerkin states that “The Irish Examiner has published an article (7 July) which takes seven quotes from the forums on Archiseek.com out of context and uses them to back up its claim that Archiseek.com is anti-OAP."
To be the man you have to beat the man, therefore I am the man. Whooooooo!
* TIC (tongue-in-cheek) applied liberally to this post
Published by Colm.
First into the ring is Sigla Mag with their piece The Blogosphere - Racing To See Who’s First To The Bottom? In it, Feargal McKay attacks the “peddling of rumour as fact” in two prominent Irish blogs, Gavin’s Blog and Slugger O’Toole. McKay says that this isn’t a personal attack, but his apology rings hollow after the particularly caustic “What “sources” were Slugger and Gavin relying on? Pop Bitch?” remark.
Next two contestants are the Freedom Institute and Year of the Big Drought. Their wrangle concerned the current shoot-to-kill policy being employed by the London Met. The man off the beer for a year asks that the FI apologise for their piece on the issue. I would link to it, but this blog has taken the stance not to link to the FI, once famously described as right-wing fascists by Thinking Out Loud at a recent blog get-together. As Jim Ross would say, “this one’s going to be a slobberknocker”.
With baby oil applied and the gravel voice flexed, the next two to take to the canvas are Dick O’Brien of Back Seat Drivers and Richard Waghorne of the FI, yet again. Just when you thought the love-in was going to continue after compliments were paid for the recent logo change, Richard Waghorne stings Dick by saying that his analysis on the recent Irish-Yank Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance was “DOA”. This could be a rematch …
Finally, a match up took place two weeks ago between the Irish Examiner’s Eoin English and Archiseek’s Paul Clerkin. In his blog, Clerkin states that “The Irish Examiner has published an article (7 July) which takes seven quotes from the forums on Archiseek.com out of context and uses them to back up its claim that Archiseek.com is anti-OAP."
To be the man you have to beat the man, therefore I am the man. Whooooooo!
* TIC (tongue-in-cheek) applied liberally to this post
Published by Colm.
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