Tag Archives: VoteTube

Labour Party offering €1000 for Lisbon Treaty video

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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Snippets

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

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

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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Free the News!

I’ve written before about the problem of discussing public affairs in videos when you can’t legitimately reuse portions of the RTE news- the primary source for any current affairs videos. Eoin O’Dell has started the ball rolling to try to … Continue reading

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The Centre Cannot Hold

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

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?

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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Be VoteTube’s Ghosts of Christmas Future

I treat Christmas as a land with no computers. Just so you wouldn’t be lonely after your third day of Ham dipped in pudding, I thought I’d line up a series of videos to pop up on VoteTube.org by the … Continue reading

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Minister to Nowhere

If you’d like to see the fruits of my previous efforts with a tube of glue and a potato, head over to the VoteTube.org site now and see Minister to Nowhere I tried posting the video here, but it just … Continue reading

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