Category Archives: VoteTube

My Liveblogged Year, Part One

Posted on 10/02/2010 by Simon McGarr
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As a medium, liveblogging is still only a shadow of what it could be. But even still, the faint sketched in lines are becoming clear. And, as usually happens with an internet technology, I think the real impact of liveblogging will be felt in places the inventors didn’t expect.

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Labour Party offering €1000 for Lisbon Treaty video

Posted on 06/05/2008 by Simon McGarr
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Cash Money! I received an email today from  Joe Costello  telling me about a  competition they’re running to  promote the  Lisbon Treaty. In exchange for a well crafted one minute video, they’re offering a prize of €1000, spendable in shops, … Continue reading →

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The Other Eegit on the Radio

Posted on 11/03/2008 by Simon McGarr
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I’ll be on this morning’s Tubridy Show on RTE Radio one with Richard Delevan, late of the Sunday Tribune. The topic we’ve been set, like the leaving cert essay, to discuss is ‘Political Hactivism’. UPDATE: The discussion can be heard … Continue reading →

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Tom Kitt, Info society minister, rejects ‘obsessive’ bloggers

Posted on 05/03/2008 by Simon McGarr
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Tom Kitt TD said that government cannot be swayed by obsessive bloggers but must give equal voice to people who don’t have time to have narrowly focussed opinions.

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Snippets

Posted on 16/07/2007 by Simon McGarr
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All is quiet here in Tuppenceworth, but I thought I might send out a couple of flares to let readers know we haven’t sunk completely. I have now received my Nokia N800. It is better than I thought it would … Continue reading →

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Politics and Blogging- my answers

Posted on 08/06/2007 by Simon McGarr
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Lucinda McNally sent me this email interview as part of her postgraduate thesis research. It’s long so you can use the More link to read it all, if you like how it starts to shape up. The best stuff is … Continue reading →

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Thesis Q & A on Blogging and Politics

Posted on 07/06/2007 by Simon McGarr
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Lucinda McNally is writing a thesis on the impact of blogging on the Irish Election. She sent me a set of questions, which I’ll reproduce later today with her blessing, together with my answers. She also sent me a second … Continue reading →

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The Centre Cannot Hold

Posted on 03/05/2007 by Simon McGarr
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, -The Second Coming, WB Yeats Yeats could have been channelling the spirit of … Continue reading →

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Tubridy Today

Posted on 23/03/2007 by Simon McGarr
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I was on Ryan Tubridy’s radio programme this morning, exuding the bonhomie of a man with 4 hours of sleep under his belt. The topic of discussion was VoteTube. If you missed it for some reason, you’ll find it 30ish … Continue reading →

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Are YouTube political videos subject to Irish regulation?

Posted on 21/03/2007 by Simon McGarr
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Following the controversy over the banning of this Lent’s Trocaire ad as ‘political’ by the BCI, (See, Eoin O’Dell, E. McGarr, VoteTube for details) I thought I’d republish this essay from the McGarr Solicitors site. The short answer is no, … Continue reading →

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