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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, into your hot little hands.
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 be.
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 near the end, so I know you'll all be clicking like goodo.
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 set of brass tacks questions, suggested after a meeting with a supervisor cynical about blogs.
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.
Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,-The Second Coming, WB YeatsYeats could have been channelling the spirit of the modern political campaign manager. For nearly twenty years political parties and candidates have been successful in imposing previously undreamed controls on campaigns.
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 minutes in to this RealPlayer Stream.
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, by the way.
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 power of my robot facsimile.
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 NowhereI tried posting the video here, but it just broke the site. Feel free to tell your friends.
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