Damien Mulley announces defeat before the game commences
"I think the time has run out on ALL parties. They all need to be voted out of office. Reboot the political system in Ireland. The others will get in and fuck things up just as much." Damien Mulley
They say in journo school that, as a rule of thumb, you should never start an article with a quote. Then again, most of us here in this made-up space are not journos. Most are bloggers. Different people, different rules. People with an alternative means to shout our mouths off are we.
Can we influence things? Things being the exoteric and the tangible. Look up any search phrase to do with a current event on any of the search engines and you'll find the organic listings peppered with blogs. Type "irish election", "charlie haughey", or "bebo". You get the idea. Whether Mulley believes it or not, bloggers can have an impact with or without a collective blogger consensus. The very fact that blogger opinions get rammed in the faces of Internet searchers means that Irish blogs' reach is substantial. Bloggers who write about politicians whose names are not mentioned frequently on the Web might find their opinions above the fold on the first page of search results.
As for the iconoclastic and anarchic rhetoric in the quote above, we should probably put it down to keyboard rage. After all, he does call his post a "continuation of a rant". The time has not run out for all parties. Until the emergence of a working alternative system to the current political one, we just have to make do. This means making that catharthic change from the inside out. It is this blogger's opinion that it's irresponsible to say that all parties should be voted out immediately. There is no double Ctrl+Alt+Delete to reboot the political system in Ireland unless what is being proposed is outright anarchy.
It's pretty damning to say outright that bloggers will not influence the election. If Labour are hiring Zach Exley, an Internet politics expert, whether their intentions be flawed or otherwise, this can only signal that they're prepared to acknowledge our presence.
tags:election
Published by Colm.
They say in journo school that, as a rule of thumb, you should never start an article with a quote. Then again, most of us here in this made-up space are not journos. Most are bloggers. Different people, different rules. People with an alternative means to shout our mouths off are we.
Can we influence things? Things being the exoteric and the tangible. Look up any search phrase to do with a current event on any of the search engines and you'll find the organic listings peppered with blogs. Type "irish election", "charlie haughey", or "bebo". You get the idea. Whether Mulley believes it or not, bloggers can have an impact with or without a collective blogger consensus. The very fact that blogger opinions get rammed in the faces of Internet searchers means that Irish blogs' reach is substantial. Bloggers who write about politicians whose names are not mentioned frequently on the Web might find their opinions above the fold on the first page of search results.
As for the iconoclastic and anarchic rhetoric in the quote above, we should probably put it down to keyboard rage. After all, he does call his post a "continuation of a rant". The time has not run out for all parties. Until the emergence of a working alternative system to the current political one, we just have to make do. This means making that catharthic change from the inside out. It is this blogger's opinion that it's irresponsible to say that all parties should be voted out immediately. There is no double Ctrl+Alt+Delete to reboot the political system in Ireland unless what is being proposed is outright anarchy.
It's pretty damning to say outright that bloggers will not influence the election. If Labour are hiring Zach Exley, an Internet politics expert, whether their intentions be flawed or otherwise, this can only signal that they're prepared to acknowledge our presence.
tags:election
Published by Colm.
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