The short lists for the Irish Blog Awards have been announced thanks to the trojan work being put in by the judging group for 2009. On average each blog shortlisted was scored by seven judges. Having seen KilkennyMusic.com and my own blog here drop off at the long list stage (i.e. not shortlisted), I’ll be…
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Rhyme Rag, New Poetry Blog In Kilkenny
Testament that including blog links in your email signatures work, I stumbled onto Rhyme Rag earlier this morning. Rhyme Rag is a young poetry publication issued by the Kilkenny Arts Office, directed by local arts officer Mary Butler. You can also follow the artist-in-residency blog for No 72 John Street here where Gypsy Ray has…
RoadDeaths.ie Looking For New Owner
Update August 6th 2012: After four years, the site has a new owner (Mark), a new plan and is now available at RoadDeaths.ie, providing information on road deaths in Ireland and road safety. John is closing the door on RoadDeaths.ie, a great mapping project which ran between 2006 and 2007 but hasn’t seen updates in…
Those Irish Blog Awards Winners
Partly for my own reference for later on, and to give some link love to the winners, here’s the list of those who walked away with the trophies last night. Best Pop Culture Blog: Rick O’Shea Best Blog from a Journalist: Present Tense Best Food/Drink Blog: Italian Foodies Best Crafts Blog: A Simple Yarn Best…
There Was Blogging, There Was Drinking, There Were Cheers…
That’s how I imagine tonight will run, but not exactly in that order. The 2008 Irish Blog Awards are taking place tonight in the Alexander Hotel, Dublin with kick off scheduled for 7:30pm. Having been to the Awards last year I can say that the Alexander is a great venue and anyone going is bound…
Gone Pink For October
I might be a few days late with this one but with a few hours down time I’ve thrown together a pink stylesheet for the blog in support of breast cancer awareness for the month of October. More details can be found on PinkForOctober.org. Jennifer Farley made reference to some pink designs during the week,…
Net Visionary Awards Voting Open
The Net Visionary Awards voting is up and running from this morning, a few names in there I’ll recognise, a lot of names in there I won’t recognise. Congratulations to everyone nominated, you can vote until October 19th. Me, I’m looking forward to the Blog Awards – if anything it’s cheaper to attend 🙂 Going…
Aggregating Politics, Getting Political
A review of Statcounter over the weekend showed some activity on the blog here, coming through Politics in Ireland in search of the discussion over Keola Donaghy on KCLR on Friday afternoon. Likely, this is due to the mention of a particular Labour Party TD who featured in the radio interview. Politics In Ireland, run…
Keith Bohanna And The IIA
Quick word of congratulations to fellow Kilkenny resident Keith Bohanna who returns to the IIA board following the recent elections. It is an honour to have been elected… Nice to be back here after a break – a different and more realistic environment for the board of the IIA to be operating in and I…
Tipping The Hat To Blognation
Delighted to see that Conor O’Neill is behind the launch of the Irish arm of Blognation, which kicked off today. As they say in Ireland, “there’s no better buachaill”. The addition of an Irish element to Blognation means that we’ll be more seeing the latest Web 2.0 developments / tech developments from all around the…