Cross-posted from McConnellsintegrated.ie:
The newly-formed Broadcasting Authority of Ireland recently issued a report written by veteran journalist and media lecturer Dr Kevin Rafter that reviewed the longtime restrictions that prevent political advertising from reaching the Irish TV and radio airwaves. On its website, the BAI headlined the report “Independent Report Confirms Majority Support for Retention of [...]

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Just got word confirming that next Tuesday there will be a Presidential debate sponsored by the UCD Law Society. (No link, time or venue as of yet.)
But I now know the panel includes myself, Kate Fitzgerald of Democrats Abroad, Kings College academic Rory Miller and…drumroll…Senator Mike Gravel, currently of the Monster Raving Loony Party.
So, [...]

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The always thoughtful Nick Carr has a great post from last week on the great expansion and contraction of the Web universe most of us experience.
Indeed, statistics indicate that web traffic is becoming more concentrated at the largest sites, even as the overall number of sites continues to increase, and one recent study found [...]

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Out. Of. The. Park.
This is what I mean to say:

Look: I’m biased at this point. I’m one of those people, deeply distressed at what has happened to America, deeply ashamed of my own misjudgments, who has shifted out of my ideological comfort zone because this man seems different to me, and this moment in [...]

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Something to help mend broken Irish equestrian hearts:

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Remember this little dystopian ditty? It’s baaaa-aack, and this time it’s personal. (Oh, so bad.)
Anyway, the idea behind the Blade Runner of digital media futurism was just highlighting the newly possible - a totally customised news service, where editorial choices about what news is important is drawn from your social networking profile and fed to [...]

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This Craigslist ad in London caught my eye:
20-30 henchmen needed for moderately-sized supervillain organisation with large expansion potential (fortresses built into geological structures, corruption of government officials, possible genesis of ‘nemesis’ vigilante). Electrical theme.
Applicants must be willing to learn new skills, including but not limited to operation of specialised ‘lightning guns’. Applicants will also be [...]

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Recently I’ve been up to my proverbials in a project, but seemed a good time to post some observations on the state of the US presidential race. Not least because some formerly friendly acquaintances who recently goaded me into an email flame war need to be set straight on a couple of points.
First, the “where’s [...]

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I thought it was weird. When asked whether he’d shaken Ireland up, President Sarkozy feigned jabbing at Big Bri’s belly and said, “Have you seen the size of the Irish Taoiseach?” [How could le petit président shake up the big man] Tension-busting? Maybe. But not very polite. So what would have pushed him over the [...]

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