Revenge of the bloggers
Like Redmum, if I don't post this now I never will ...
It was great to meet some of the old reliables (Dick, Damien and Kevin) on Saturday. The story told by Dick about my name still being on a pole in Merrion Square cracked me up. He figured that it's there since the night of the blogging awards last March. I have no recollection of taking off my nametag that night.
What a venue for the Blogging the Election conference? The Digital Hub impresses the eye as can be verified by Redmum's photos. First to grace the stage was one-time blogger Richard Delevan, now Business Editor for the Tribune.
We had three politicians then speak about their experiences using the medium as a means for vote getting and for reaching the electorate. I was very impressed by Green TD Ciaran Cuffe. It was hard not to warm to his public speaking ability.
The headline act for the day was Guido Fawkes. Like so many other political bloggers, Guido prides himself on tripping up the political establishment. He was responsible for the recent leaking of the name of John Prescott's mistress. Apparently, if Guido's site ever goes down, all he has to do is call Google (he uses Blogger). Impressive stuff, even if we did hear him say it one time too many throughout the day.
There's no doubt about it but Simon McGarr was the star of the show. I couldn't help notice the beads of sweat form on Roger Galligan's brow (Irishblogs.ie) as Simon talked about how a libel action can cost the price of a house in Dublin. It was at that moment that I wished everybody in the room wrote something libellous about me.
Kudos to Cian, Suzy, Damien and Mick for organising the event. Had some interesting conversations with the gregarious Copernicus, the very lovely Redmum, CedarLounge and various others.
Some final points. Guido made some remark about how podcasting is dead and yesterday's news. Considering that Forrester have said that podcasting will grow to 12.3 million households in the US by 2010, I think that Guy's news of it's demise is greatly exaggerated. I was expecting Bernie to make a comment from the floor in riposte, but it never came. On this very topic of podcasting, you heard it here first that In Fact, Ah are about to make our podcasting debut. Watch (hear) this space.
Finally, El Commandant P, you are required to restart the biscuit series. I haven't seen a reaction like it since RTE dropped Glenroe. Blogger after blogger expressed their disappointment at its discontinuation. Can you not resurrect this wonderful series?
tags:irishblogcon
Published by Colm.
It was great to meet some of the old reliables (Dick, Damien and Kevin) on Saturday. The story told by Dick about my name still being on a pole in Merrion Square cracked me up. He figured that it's there since the night of the blogging awards last March. I have no recollection of taking off my nametag that night.
What a venue for the Blogging the Election conference? The Digital Hub impresses the eye as can be verified by Redmum's photos. First to grace the stage was one-time blogger Richard Delevan, now Business Editor for the Tribune.
We had three politicians then speak about their experiences using the medium as a means for vote getting and for reaching the electorate. I was very impressed by Green TD Ciaran Cuffe. It was hard not to warm to his public speaking ability.
The headline act for the day was Guido Fawkes. Like so many other political bloggers, Guido prides himself on tripping up the political establishment. He was responsible for the recent leaking of the name of John Prescott's mistress. Apparently, if Guido's site ever goes down, all he has to do is call Google (he uses Blogger). Impressive stuff, even if we did hear him say it one time too many throughout the day.
There's no doubt about it but Simon McGarr was the star of the show. I couldn't help notice the beads of sweat form on Roger Galligan's brow (Irishblogs.ie) as Simon talked about how a libel action can cost the price of a house in Dublin. It was at that moment that I wished everybody in the room wrote something libellous about me.
Kudos to Cian, Suzy, Damien and Mick for organising the event. Had some interesting conversations with the gregarious Copernicus, the very lovely Redmum, CedarLounge and various others.
Some final points. Guido made some remark about how podcasting is dead and yesterday's news. Considering that Forrester have said that podcasting will grow to 12.3 million households in the US by 2010, I think that Guy's news of it's demise is greatly exaggerated. I was expecting Bernie to make a comment from the floor in riposte, but it never came. On this very topic of podcasting, you heard it here first that In Fact, Ah are about to make our podcasting debut. Watch (hear) this space.
Finally, El Commandant P, you are required to restart the biscuit series. I haven't seen a reaction like it since RTE dropped Glenroe. Blogger after blogger expressed their disappointment at its discontinuation. Can you not resurrect this wonderful series?
tags:irishblogcon
Published by Colm.
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