July 21, 2008
by Nosemonkey
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Via DK, it appears that leading UK Tory blogger Iain Dale is putting together another of his top blogs lists. Last year it was somewhat hampered by selection bias – evidence of which is still on display in Dale’s new … Continue reading
June 25, 2008
by Nosemonkey
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Jon Worth on the futility of being an EU-focussed blogger. The only thing I’d say he’s missed is that the EU is also insanely boring, which makes getting up the motivation to write about it even more tricky than the … Continue reading
April 15, 2008
by Nosemonkey
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Someone got in touch to ask some questions about citizen journalism and my coverage of the July 2005 London terrorist attacks… Continue reading
April 8, 2008
by Nosemonkey
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I’m getting a load of “you do not have permission to do that” errors and appear no longer to be able to add custom fields to posts, or edit their timestamps, which is somewhat irritating. What with Firefox also having … Continue reading
April 6, 2008
by Nosemonkey
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I’ve just upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress, so if anything’s gone weird, that’s why. Let me know if you spot anything – ta! Also, I’ve started filling out the country/region specialists part of the Nosemonkey’s EUtopia Netvibes Universe, … Continue reading
April 2, 2008
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Congrats Alex Stubb MEP (yes, he of the website full of really bizarre photos) on his recently-announced promotion following the highly entertaining mobile phone sex scandal. That makes two Scandinavian countries with bloggers as Foreign Ministers (the other being Sweden’s … Continue reading
March 7, 2008
by Nosemonkey
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I’ve been in this game on and off for the last five years, and the world of EU blogging has changed rather a lot in that time. So, who are the players? Continue reading
March 6, 2008
by Nosemonkey
Comments Off on All your EU news and blog RSS needs covered
Here you go – a handy compilation of RSS feeds of various EU news sites and blogs, courtesy of yours truly. It’s rather a work in progress – as you can see from the subject and country/region tabs, yet to … Continue reading
September 28, 2007
by Nosemonkey
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So say some people who’ve just launched a pro blogging company with a UK political blog at its heart. Way to get linkage, guys! (Oh, wait… Damn…) The thing is, it’s true and we all know it. But we’ve all … Continue reading
September 21, 2007
by Nosemonkey
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It was only a matter of time before Britain’s ridiculous libel laws led to an internet service provider shutting down a bunch of websites in the face of a writ. But the ISP hosting Bloggerheads and Craig Murray‘s blog, which … Continue reading
August 16, 2007
by Nosemonkey
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For the last few months I’ve been working insanely hard on a couple of real-world projects, one of which has just fallen through (through precisely no fault of my own). I haven’t had even a single night out of London … Continue reading
July 12, 2007
by Nosemonkey
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Note to the internet: Just because I haven’t posted much of late doesn’t give you permission to bombard my site with comment spam, you bastard. Note to regular readers (if I’ve got any left after so few posts): Sorry, I’ve … Continue reading
June 6, 2007
by Nosemonkey
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In lieu of inspiration I’ve been reading a few precursors to bloggers to try and get the creative juices flowing. As such, pertinent find from Dr Johnson’s Rambler (No.3, June 5th 1750): It is… quickly discoverable, that consultation and compliance … Continue reading
May 7, 2007
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Well, Sarkozy’s in, John Reid’s out, and this is a day late. My bad. Let’s try it country by country this time, for the sake of clarity… Armenia You’d think they had enough to worry about with Turkey, but now … Continue reading