Does anyone remember when Eamonn Cooke & Radio Dublin would rip the 8am news off RTE Radio 1. This was in the days before Morning Ireland. The news pips would chime and Radio Dublin would take the news feed from RTE while Nova & Sunshine were staffing Newsrooms with NUJ Journalists. At the end of…
UTV in Ireland
On January 1st 2015 UTV Ireland began broadcasting in Ireland, the TV station which is owned by UTV media replaces UTV of UPC & Sky EPG’s. Many people have complained that they no longer have access to UTV as it has been replaced by UTV Ireland which has different scheduling to UTV & other ITV…
Gender issues for Microphones
Women are under represented in radio. In Ireland less than 1 in 4 voices in news / current affairs is female. One possible contributor and untested reason for this is that the radio studio is not adjusted to the female voice. How could this be? Warning, here comes some sweeping generalisations. Men build radio stations…
Meeja
A curated twitter collection about the media. meeja
Fine Gael / Labour FOI fail
in reply to Killing Freedom of Information in Ireland He said ‘What do you think about my manifesto? ‘I like a manifesto, put it to the test-o. Labour Party Manifesto 2011 Labour will restore the Freedom of Information Act so that it is as comprehensive as was originally intended. The fee structure for Freedom of…
We dig Baldoyle
http://GrassrootsArcheology.ie doing a dig on Seagrange Green have found some medieval artifacts. #Baldoyle
why I hate Outlook
I have always hated outlook. but from time to time I am forced to use it to test, counter-test, and due to policy at workplaces I have been. Why do I hate it so much? I have an in built dislike to it. Some of the reasons I hate it from way back when I…
Coder Dojo coolest projects [live blog]
16:12 judging over. Everyone a winner for taking part. We are coder dojo. Well done all. 13:35 DCU bursting with ideas and people viewing. My daughter made a web app project http://coder.dojo.ie/raffle/ 13:07 great projects on display here. Are you near DCU? Get down and see it. 12:21 DCU is buzzing with the sound of…
tuning out social blogging noise
[without apology for the radio spectrum analogies] social blogging noise is like listening to FM radio with all channels on the one frequency and you are tuned to that station all day and most of the night. you can hear everyone mention Miley Cyrus & you can hear ‘Blurred Lines’ by Robin Thicke is high…