Archive for September, 2004
Tuesday, September 28th, 2004
New figures show that Ireland has 21% of the population living below the poverty line - above the EU average of 15%. Interestingly, the figures for child poverty in Ireland are at the same rate as for the overall population (21%) while elsewhere they run about 4% above it (at ...
Posted in Income and poverty | Comments Off on Poverty in Ireland
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004
The annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers takes place at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.
Posted in Computing Technology, Education | Comments Off on 19-22 September, 2004. Brighton, UK.
Monday, September 13th, 2004
2005 marks the tenth anniversary of licensed Irish community radio, and I've launched the Being the Media project to mark the occasion. This will be an online collection of pieces - academic articles, personal reminiscences, manifestoes and reflections - centred on the theme of Irish participatory media.
Not all pieces need ...
Posted in Alternative Media, International Affairs | Comments Off on Being the Media – a call for papers
Sunday, September 12th, 2004
I've got a paper in the Into the Blogosphere collection.
Posted in Online communication | Comments Off on Weblogs paper
Friday, September 10th, 2004
Among the papers that will be discussed this evening (texts not yet available):
Victor Pickard. "Who Governs the Internet? Policy Struggles at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)"Andrew Ó Baoill. "MoveOn - a postmodern democracy : rethinking public participation in the laptop age"Sabryna Cornish. Metaphorical Framing in Online Advocacy ...
Posted in IPRH | Comments Off on First meeting details
Friday, September 10th, 2004
John at DIYmedia has some interesting ideas about why Clear Channel decided to start syndicating Air America. I'm not sure it's quite as devious as he suggests, but it is good to see someone else who's not cheering at the development as marking 'success' - liberal commercial media may be ...
Posted in Corporate media | Comments Off on Clear Channel and Air America
Thursday, September 9th, 2004
There's a piece in Alternet essentially decrying attacks on George Soros that suggested he got his money from drug cartel sources. Apart from the - glossed over - anti-semitic sentiments from some Republicans, there's another issue I'd like to raise. The truth is that Soros made his money not from ...
Posted in Income and poverty | Comments Off on Soros and currency speculation
Thursday, September 9th, 2004
Following my earlier post about vote swapping, I got a mail from one of the people involved with VotePair.org which is:a major vote swapping site for this year's elections. [The] campaign is comprised of site operators from 2000 (voteswap.com, voteexchange, winwincampain.org, nadertrader.org, etc).. The site, which will launch its ...
Posted in Electoral politics | Comments Off on Vote swapping in 2004
Wednesday, September 8th, 2004
News today of a new syndication site for the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies - a grouping of 125 newspapers in the United States.
Posted in Alternative Media | Comments Off on Alt.weekly
Friday, September 3rd, 2004
Several responses to my question about the Government Publications Sales Office. Several people managed to find a revenue commissioners' listing of the phone and fax numbers, using Google, but it helped to know the name of the body you were trying to track down, while Darius came closest with an ...
Posted in Online communication | Comments Off on Paging GPSO…