3loggingportal.eu

by Kosmopolit in Digital Public Sphere

· 3 Comments

Three years of bloggingportal. And what a journey it has been. I remember sitting around a huge table in a flat in Brussels – with a certain Jon Worth and the (back then) mysterious Brusselsblogger – dreaming up something that is now known as bloggingportal. Well, resources were scarce and it took us only another [...]

Tags: , , , , ,

Sorry, time for a selfish plug. A post best characterised as a self-congratulatory ego trip which is so typical for the blogosphere -  well, at least some would say that. In case you have not seen it, a couple of days ago my post on German UN diplomacy on Libya was featured here. Actually a [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , ,

A small step for the EU institutions… -  or a small step for bloggers? (sorry for this piece of plagiarism) Anyway, it was a world premiere:  The  first time ever that bloggers were accredited (as bloggers!) to an official EU institution! OK, it was just a pilot project but nevertheless a very interesting endeavour – [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Wolfgang Blau (Zeit Online) kurz und prägnant über die Brachenmythen des Journalismus. (via carta) Wolfgang Blau (Zeit Online) kurz und prägnant über die Brachenmythen des Journalismus. (via carta)

Tags: , , , , , ,

The so-called “euroblogosphere” is a rather small specialised blogging scene. It has always been like that. However, lately I have the feeling that not enough new bloggers take up the challenge to write about EU topics. It seems to me that  only very few new blogs have been launched in the last months/years.  Moreover, there [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

First impression: This looks interesting. A think tank pamphlet titled “What the EU Did Next -Short essays for a longer life” with a nice blog and prominent young writers.  It is a good idea to promote a think tank pamphlet with a blog where authors and readers can discuss the ideas. The blog has a [...]

Tags: , , , ,

Reporting Europe Prize

by Kosmopolit in Digital Public Sphere, EU politics

· 1 Comment

We bloggers tend to criticise EU media coverage (and with good reasons!). But we should not forget to “honor excellence in reporting on the European Union” and show the rest of the media how to do it properly! You can now nominate outstanding pieces of journalistic work (print, radio, TV, online, blogs,…) to be considered [...]

Tags: , , , , ,

Ideas on Europe is the blogging platform of UACES, a traditional academic association in the field of European Studies with a membership of around 1000 academics. As some of you already know I started working with them on issues regarding online/media strategy which also includes Ideas on Europe. We just launched some sort of editorial [...]

Tags: , , , , , ,

Just in case you have not seen it yet: Bloggingportal.eu proudly presents its first ever public event! Join us for the UK/EU bloggingportal conference in London on December 10th! Everything you need to know can be found here. Just in case you have not seen it yet: Bloggingportal.eu proudly presents its first ever public event! [...]

Tags: , , ,

Andrew Marr: A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed, young men sitting in their mother’s basements and ranting.They are very angry people. OK – the country is full of very angry people. Many of us are angry people at times. Some of us are angry and drunk. [...]

Tags: , , , ,