Clik here to view.
Blogswipes, Law and the Indo
Plagiarism is back in blog discussions again after another apparent piece of fat-fingered filching from Talbot street’s Indo group. I won’t be taking quite the same line as the McGarr Solicitors blog...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Print your own Newspaper
I’ve written before about Feedjournal, which takes RSS feeds and automatically generates a newspaper-like pdf from them. Well, it’s now emerged from Beta testing. It even collects and prints the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Curious Case of the Missing Paper Round
Last week I noticed something peculiar- The Paper Round’s raw coverage (which was presented in the form of a wiki to allow for interested parties to add their views) had vanished. If I go to the Paper...
View ArticleClik here to view.
People of Russia: I am not a spammer
Around midnight last night I started to recieve a series of bounced Mail Undelivered messages from lots and lot of email addresses in Russia. This was odd, because I didn’t email anyone in Russia. It...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Interview re the Paper Round
If you’d like to know what on earth possessed us to do the Paper Round review of newspapers, you can now read an interview with me, Fergal and Copernicus on the Irish Left Review. The other two guys...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Irish Times Property Supplement: Not just advertising, but knowingly...
Richard Delevan highlights a story from the Sunday Business Post yesterday- Estate Agents accused of supplying false sales prices It reports that the Irish Time’s Property Editor, Orna Mulcahy, wrote...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Journalists and The Web, a Contrast
Yesterday, Feargal Keane reported on RTE Radio 1′s Drivetime that the Lisbon Refendum Commission were spending large amounts of money on advertising on Facebook and Bebo. Keane described the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Newspapers and the Price of Respect
Co. Meath, 1 day after the Lisbon Treaty passes, we presume Originally uploaded by Editor_Tupp As Cian on Irishelection pointed out, the Irish Independent yesterday printed a story on the odder...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Papers Now Apparently Just Printing Any Old Crap
Back in November 2006, when we undertook our first Paper Round analysis, one of the very first stories I read was a front-pager, in a “quality” daily, which purported to alert the nation to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Links from my talk at Podcamp Ireland
I’m in Kilkenny today, at Podcamp Ireland. It is a very diverse group of people- more demographically spread than any other gathering I’ve been to. I was talking about using the PaperRound methodology...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shell, Broadhaven Bay and the Failure of News
Belmullet Originally uploaded by Conor Lawless During August of this year I wrote a blizzard of letters for clients of McGarr Solicitors who were worried about their crab fishing pots. As it turned...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meaning, memory and the Irish media
*Notes from a beach.* News media want things to be new. They feel inhibited from reporting things unless they have a ‘news hook’, whether or not the information would be of value. Because of this...
View Article
