Art, media, opinion and ideas
Episode one of an occasional series of Paper Round Podcasts. If you subscribe to the full tuppenceworth. ie podcast feed in iTunes or your podcatching program of choice, you also get a bonus set of essays on artworks in the National Gallery.
Look out for a piece of Paper Round Novelty this Thursday. Girls, Guns and The Daily Mail is our first Podcast. The examples are all taken from the newspapers of the weekend of Jan 26th-28th.
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At the end of his scholarly piece on whether the Rules of the Houses of the Oireachtas applied to non-members, Fergal correctly pointed out that while the House rules trying to control how Oireachtas video was used might lack teeth, they did not deal with the question of copyright.
Wearing various hats the Irish Blog awards nominations have been good enough to recognise blogs I've an involvement with in a couple of categories. Voting closes on Friday night, so hurry to have your spake. Obviously, I'd ask that you bung a vote in for us here at tuppenceworth (Best Group Blog, Best Political Blog)and for McGarr Solicitors (Best Business Blog, Best Specialist Blog).
Those of you who watched this Daily Show clip linked from my last post may have noticed Fox's Geraldo Rivera (he of Al Capones's Vault/Huge Mustache/Complete Dickhead fame) as good as accuse someone of Anna Nicole Smith's murder, advising him to "lawyer up". It'd be nice to think "oh don't worry, it's just Geraldo, and on Fox News to boot".
Complain though we might about the poor quality of Irish journalism, we have the small consolation that things are not yet as bad as in the States, though one sometimes wonders just how much better we can honestly claim to be. In the U. S.
VoteTube has a Bebo page. The most frequently asked question on there is how to make a slide show, with music, and put it in the flash box. Ok, there are three steps;1.
Simon recently queried the use of broadcasts of Oireachtas proceedings for satirical use. There doesn’t seem to be any legal provision banning such a use, but the Dáil and Seanad’s own Standing Orders do explicitly give would-be satirists the hands-off.
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