Plenty of Publicity
There was plenty of publicity for the Irish Blogosphere surrounding the Blog Awards on Saturday night. The Irish Times featured a pre-event article on Friday by John Ihle followed by a post-event article by John on Monday. John is a blogger himself - on Back Seat Drivers - so at least the articles were well-informed unlike coverage in the past.
Rick O'Shea was interviewed about blogging on Dave Fannings show on Thursday evening and Damien Mulley contributed by phone. Dave Fanning has actually started his own blog here - woo hoo Dave - but whats this about you being 26? Sarah Carey spoke on Five Seven Live on Friday evening. I'm sure there were other references in MSM but these were just the ones I came across.
Would have loved to have gone to the Blog Awards in the Alexandra Hotel (just as a lurker of course - why am I such a lurker???) but due to family commitments I couldn't make it. I watched the video of it courtesy of Joe Drumgoole who posted it on YouTube - fair play Joe... great to see the live action - have to say made me sort of glad I didn't go.....everyone seemed so young....Let's just say I'm the wrong side of 40.....or about as '26' as Dave Fanning..... I haven't had a chance yet to listen to Jett Loes podcast of the event.
Fustar in "Where do we go from here"? raises very interesting issues in his post-awards reflections to do with identity, anonymity, participation, mainstreaming etc. that girl touches on the area of digital rights in the wake of her full name and pictures reproduced without her permission appearing on the web. Sinead Gleeson at Sigla Blog and Fiona de Londras at Mental Meanderings discuss female representation among bloggers.
Have to say I am very interested in the whole area of anonymity and the web - which allows people in certain internet environments e.g. chatrooms, muds, moos and now blogs to be what they aren't - the shy can be outgoing, the quiet can be bolshy etc. At one stage I wondered if anyone at all would turn up on the night of the awards - whether the thought of as Fustar so aptly put it bloggers 'exposing themselves (as it were) to public attention' might be a step too far for many people. I don't blame Twenty Major for sending a representative (if he did?) - not only does it add to the whole aura of 'mystery' surrounding his blog, but I reckon it would have been nigh impossible for him to have lived up to his blogging persona in RL (real life), though his friends might argue the point. I suppose I mean no matter how funny he was on the night he probably would still have been a disappointment - if that makes any sense.
Anyway I digress....time to do some real work....back to the online catalogues for some more articles....ZZZZzzzzz - Not as interesting as reading the blogs themselves
Rick O'Shea was interviewed about blogging on Dave Fannings show on Thursday evening and Damien Mulley contributed by phone. Dave Fanning has actually started his own blog here - woo hoo Dave - but whats this about you being 26? Sarah Carey spoke on Five Seven Live on Friday evening. I'm sure there were other references in MSM but these were just the ones I came across.
Would have loved to have gone to the Blog Awards in the Alexandra Hotel (just as a lurker of course - why am I such a lurker???) but due to family commitments I couldn't make it. I watched the video of it courtesy of Joe Drumgoole who posted it on YouTube - fair play Joe... great to see the live action - have to say made me sort of glad I didn't go.....everyone seemed so young....Let's just say I'm the wrong side of 40.....or about as '26' as Dave Fanning..... I haven't had a chance yet to listen to Jett Loes podcast of the event.
Fustar in "Where do we go from here"? raises very interesting issues in his post-awards reflections to do with identity, anonymity, participation, mainstreaming etc. that girl touches on the area of digital rights in the wake of her full name and pictures reproduced without her permission appearing on the web. Sinead Gleeson at Sigla Blog and Fiona de Londras at Mental Meanderings discuss female representation among bloggers.
Have to say I am very interested in the whole area of anonymity and the web - which allows people in certain internet environments e.g. chatrooms, muds, moos and now blogs to be what they aren't - the shy can be outgoing, the quiet can be bolshy etc. At one stage I wondered if anyone at all would turn up on the night of the awards - whether the thought of as Fustar so aptly put it bloggers 'exposing themselves (as it were) to public attention' might be a step too far for many people. I don't blame Twenty Major for sending a representative (if he did?) - not only does it add to the whole aura of 'mystery' surrounding his blog, but I reckon it would have been nigh impossible for him to have lived up to his blogging persona in RL (real life), though his friends might argue the point. I suppose I mean no matter how funny he was on the night he probably would still have been a disappointment - if that makes any sense.
Anyway I digress....time to do some real work....back to the online catalogues for some more articles....ZZZZzzzzz - Not as interesting as reading the blogs themselves
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