Art, media, opinion and ideas
Richard Delevan highlights a story from the Sunday Business Post yesterday- Estate Agents accused of supplying false sales pricesIt reports that the Irish Time's Property Editor, Orna Mulcahy, wrote to Estate Agents who were suppling her with sale prices when the numbers being given were be sufficiently fantastic to embaress her journalistic mores.
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 have excellent and thoughtful answers. While you're looking at Irish Reviews, the Irish Pirate Review has been pumping out sea-going goodness for the last few days.
Having beeen informed by the time-honoured method of Facebook Invite of its approach, I am looking forward to trying to make some (though not all) of the Conference on Youth, Media and Democracy on the 18th and 19th April next in the DIT School of Media in Aungier Street.
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 turns out that my main email address smcgarr{AT}tuppenceworth DOT ie has been the victim of a Joe Job- that is to say it is being used as the fake 'reply to' email address by spammers.
New York Grind, Excise WalkOriginally uploaded by Editor_TuppAs events would have it, I frequently find myself in Dublin's Irish Financial Services Centre early in the morning with an empty stomach. This is the first of an occasional series, wherein I risk my own morning equilibrium by trying out as many different breakfast places as my wallet will allow.
If politics is a battle for power, Bertie Ahern was never beaten. If politics is a clash of ideas, he leaves us with a nil-all draw.
OMG everyone's going crazy about Politics. ie.
Any review provides a useful public service in that it is a form of advice to the reader; eat here, don't eat here; read this don't read that. But if I gave an Obsessive Blogger Badge for every review that appeared on a blog, I'd run out in less than a fortnight. In the case of David Maybury though, something bigger is afoot.
Fergal's first batch of badges will soon be winging their way to the following worthies. Green Ink - For the badge design, with thanks. Suzy Byrne - For coverage of Michael LynnDamien Mulley- For BroadbandSabrina Dent - For 2 tits and a voteGavin Sheridan and Anthony Sheridan - For consistently following the Tribunals, so we don't have to.
Welcome to the launch of the Obsessive Blogger Badge, soon to be the most coveted lapel decoration in all the land. I’m giving them away for free, and all you have to do is complain about something. We live in a one-party country.
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