Archives for October 7th, 2006
One of the undercurrents running through the day-long “Blogging the Election” conference in Dublin is a follow-on working group for elected officials. It’s a little like merging “Writing for the Web” with “Effective Blogging”. Anyone who reads blogs appreciates blogs with content more than blogs with pretty adornment. Sourcing quality content and then presenting it [...]
Simon McGarr is one of the few lawyer/solicitors out there that understands the law relating to bloggers and libel. The law varies dependant on whether bloggers are counted as editors, publishers, content owners etc… As soon as you moderate comments you become an editor of content published by others. You might be the publisher as [...]
Slugger O’Toole is also liveblogging today. Tags: IrishBlogCon IrishBlogCon1 IrishElections2007
Guido Fawkes starts by telling us that he carries an Irish passport, why does everyone want to be Irish?? He started in Sep 2004, with a mission to make mischief and be a 21st century court jester, basing his image on a “Guy Fawkes” style character, aiming to disrupt the British Parliament. Guido’s talk was aimed towards [...]
Politicians who blog, chaired by Suzy Byrne brought us three blogging politicians; Damien Blake, Letterkenny Town Council Member Ciarán Cuffe, TD for Dún Laoghaire Dominic Hannigan, Meath County Councillor Damien, spoke about how he has blogged for the past 18 months, and how it proved useful during his term as mayor of Letterkenny. He tries to be open [...]
So why are we here today? Why blog the election? The Blogging the Election Conference kicked off today in the Digital Exchange with Richard Delevan (Business Editor of The Sunday Tribune) posing that question to the crowd. I answered with, to me, the most simplistic answer – “because we blog everything�. But really, why bother? [...]
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