About funferal
funferal is a website focusing on participatory and alternative media. There’s a bit of politics thrown in too, and occasionally some more light-hearted information.
funferal is a project of Andrew Ó Baoill, a PhD student at the Institute of Communications Research of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a native of Galway, Ireland, I am a life-long political and media activist.
There are also occasional posts by guest columnists.
Why ‘funferal’? What does it mean?
The word ‘funferal’ first appeared in James Joyce’s “Finnegan’s Wake”, and is seen as an amalgam of funeral and fun-for-all, encapsulating some of the themes of that book.
Some popular posts
- A guide to setting up a radio station
- Joyce estate and copyright
- Review of the smoking ban in Ireland
- Analysis of incomes in Ireland
- The future of college radio
Sites in my RSS reader
- An t-Imeall
- apophenia
- BBC World News*
- Center for Public Integrity
- Culture Cat
- DIY Media
- DW Blog
- Evoting-experts.com
- Gavin’s Blog
- GEO at UIUC
- Greg Palast
- Guardian World*
- Hop, Skip, Jump
- In Passing
- Indyblogs
- Irish Law Updates
- Kairosnews
- Lawrence Lessig
- Liberation*
- Mark Dilley’s wiki blog
- MediaCitizen
- Media Geek
- Media is a Plural
- News Dissector
- NUI, Galway Radio Society
- Observer Blog*
- Ongoing
- OnlineBlog*
- Open Spectrum
- Overheard in New York
- Press Think
- RTÉ News*
- Salon*
- Sascha Meinrath
- So Sue Me
- Techno/Culture
- The Bellman
- This Dark Qualm
- This Modern World
- Tuppenceworth
- Tuppenceworth Blog
- Unpacking My Library
- Wildhunt Blog
- WILLblog*
- Wired*
- ZNet blog
- Zwichenzug
No RSS, still cool
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