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)

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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 [...]

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Last week there was another #web2eu (and on twitter) event, formerly known as openbeer 2.0 (if I remember correctly!).  If you have not heard of it: it’s a nice little series of events focusing on social media and the European Union in Brussels. It is informal and it is a great place to meet people [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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During the last weeks the editors of bloggingportal have been discussing the future of bloggingportal. The attempt to kick-start a public debate on our editors’ blog here failed, partly because we had some server problems last week. So I thought I should give it another plug here. So why do we need to talk about [...]

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Blogs are one of the latest additions to the Romanian political landscape. From a totally unknown concept, they have turned overnight in fashionable tools, a “must have” for any politician who wants to be taken seriously. In fact, most of the politicians pay small fortunes to have a blog (although most of them use free [...]

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