Public Service Broadcasting by Bloggers in Ireland
Mick Fealty of Slugger O Toole has had too much Guinness, fallen over, and then given an excellent short talk about about blogging, social media and politics in Ireland.
As usual - despite the Guinness - he makes excellent sense.
It is a contribution to the Organise, Activate, Influence conference in Dublin today. There is a live feed below. The conference will run all day.
On Slugger, Mick notes:
I couldn’t get to the Organise, Activate, Influence conference in Dublin this morning, but I have sent this ad hoc ‘soapbox’ piece in which I argue that we need more Irish bloggers who take the whole business of mainstream politics more seriously if citizens are to be able exert more influence on the way politics is done between elections. Outside a handful of sites, like Politics.ie and Irish Election that’s far from the norm.
He then had a large cup of black coffee and tried again:
The main lesson for me is that consistency over the long-term makes a difference, and to hope that we will begin to see a greater use of non-partisan and multi-partisan blogs in the UK that will be able to enlarge the political space “downwards” as well as stir-up the existing arena.
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