Comments on: Why blogging isn't big in Ireland

Want to blog from County Mayo? Good luck getting a broadband link.

[ChumbaWumpah]

Its more the quality of Irish Bloggers not the quantity.

Irish bloggers seem to spend an inordinate amount of time insulting each other and everybody else and then deleting comments on their blogs that are deleterious to their inflated self importance.

Ireland is very small guys, get with the program please.

Many are evidently offshoots of fractious politics forums ....frequently one where the blogger was banned from the forum for being more fractious than the fractious majority.

I never heard of Toms one but it looks like an exception to the above. There is not much serious technology blogging in Ireland but thats partly because the Irish, overall, prefer discussion forums to blogs anyway .

I stick to American technology blogs where the blogger generally seems to know what they are talking about and strangely manages not to insult anybody , and I am Irish (BORN that is )

[eumaios]

Sweeping generalizations; typical folly of bloggers

With a comment like that my guess is you won't be in Dublin for St. Patricks Day! Your comment that all Irish bloggers do is insult others is sweeping to say the least. I'd like to see you support this line of argument. Also, you mention that Irish bloggers have a habit of deleting negative comments on their blogs, because of their "inflated self importance"; its hard to read a blog that isn't fueled by some nauseating sense of self infatuation. So, if the Irish have low rates of blogging uptake, it would appear that on a world scale they may well be more modest than most. Finally, I believe the reason for the non-proliferation of blogging in Ireland is because of the vibrant online social networking culture that acts as a substitute. There is not a single person I know from the age of 15 to 25 who is not a member on bebo, facebook, myspace or lastfm, some are on all of them.

[jerje]

Irish Blogs and Blog awards

Broadband penetration aside, the irish blogs awards were on last weekend in Dublin and featured a diverse selection of blogs. http://awards.ie/blogawards/

[dcmosqueda]

Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery is a great blogger and very personable to boot! We
follow each other on Twitter and it's great to hear his Irish
perspective!

www.danmosqueda.blogspot.com
www.twitter.com/mosqueda

[ChumbaWumpah]

Bebos Is Not Blogging

Bebo is not proper blogging by any stretch of the imagination.

It is self evidently an extension of text messaging onto the web and thats all bar a few links and photos.

Furthermore the contributions are generally written in text speak meaning

1. No Sentences.
2. No Paragraphs.
3. No Development of themes.
4. No Punctuation.
5. No Spelling , at least not as it is generally understood.

And as the bulk of Bebo users in Ireland are most likely still under 20 it is to MY mind fair to say that the moronic babble that is a characteristic of that site reflects badly on that demographic cohort.

It is furthermore fair to say that Bebo projects an entirely wrong impression of the capabilities .....if indeed they can spell.

[eumaios]

Point taken, but I never said bebo was blogging

Never let it be said that I am an advocate for bebo. I too find text language annoying and less succint than conventional wordage. However, if blogs are a means of communicating ideas and concepts, then social networking sites achieve this, albeit in a closed network framework. Teenagers will be teenagers and by this I mean their non-conformist means of communication in whch thy ommit vitl ltters in wrds is by no means a representation of their intelligence or lack thereof. On a point of information, in an attempt to stay competitive, sites like bebo and facebook add oodles of features on a weekly basis; one long standing widget is that of the blog column. Most members do have blogs but because of these sites encoding and privacy restrictions you can't just openly google them.