Comments on: Damien Mulley - From blogger to journalist http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0520/irelands-first-paid-blogger/ Irish Communications Consultant - Be Noticed Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:31:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Michele http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0520/irelands-first-paid-blogger/#comment-13728 Michele Tue, 23 May 2006 19:23:03 +0000 http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0520/irelands-first-paid-blogger/#comment-13728 The Podleaders channel is being sponsored by <a href="http://www.blacknight.ie" rel="nofollow">us</a> ie. we pay ENN and provide the bandwidth etc., to Tom. I don't know if he has any other financial arrangements with ENN, so I'd let him (or them) respond to that. The Podleaders channel is being sponsored by us ie. we pay ENN and provide the bandwidth etc., to Tom. I don’t know if he has any other financial arrangements with ENN, so I’d let him (or them) respond to that.

]]> By: RW http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0520/irelands-first-paid-blogger/#comment-11999 RW Sat, 20 May 2006 15:36:19 +0000 http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0520/irelands-first-paid-blogger/#comment-11999 I don't see why adding two or three zeros to your readership should be considered regressive. I don’t see why adding two or three zeros to your readership should be considered regressive.

]]> By: Bernie Goldbach http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0520/irelands-first-paid-blogger/#comment-11997 Bernie Goldbach Sat, 20 May 2006 15:01:33 +0000 http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0520/irelands-first-paid-blogger/#comment-11997 I think Piaras was pointing out journos who started as bloggers, not bloggers who evolved into MSM hacks. If we're listing all the blogging journos we have to include names like ROBL, Adrian Weckler, Fergus Cassidy, David Stewart, Dick O'Brien and at least five others who are also watching Munster's triumphs on the rugby pitch today. BTW, we need to acknowledge that some believe it is regressive behavior to morph from blogging to mainstream journalism. I think Piaras was pointing out journos who started as bloggers, not bloggers who evolved into MSM hacks.

If we’re listing all the blogging journos we have to include names like ROBL, Adrian Weckler, Fergus Cassidy, David Stewart, Dick O’Brien and at least five others who are also watching Munster’s triumphs on the rugby pitch today.

BTW, we need to acknowledge that some believe it is regressive behavior to morph from blogging to mainstream journalism.

]]> By: RW http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0520/irelands-first-paid-blogger/#comment-11957 RW Sat, 20 May 2006 13:07:46 +0000 http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0520/irelands-first-paid-blogger/#comment-11957 Don't know if this is limited to tech types or not, but Sarah Carey, Richard Delevan, and Peter Nolan are all print journalists with a blogging history. I'm too modest to mention a fourth, and I'm sure there are more I've momentarilly forgotten. What's interesting about Ireland is that the move from blogging to journalism happens a bit, but almost no established journalists, it seems, set up a blog. We're unlike other English speaking countries in that regard. Don’t know if this is limited to tech types or not, but Sarah Carey, Richard Delevan, and Peter Nolan are all print journalists with a blogging history. I’m too modest to mention a fourth, and I’m sure there are more I’ve momentarilly forgotten.

What’s interesting about Ireland is that the move from blogging to journalism happens a bit, but almost no established journalists, it seems, set up a blog. We’re unlike other English speaking countries in that regard.

]]> By: Bernie Goldbach http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0520/irelands-first-paid-blogger/#comment-11859 Bernie Goldbach Sat, 20 May 2006 11:22:11 +0000 http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0520/irelands-first-paid-blogger/#comment-11859 Ruairi Roddy offered me the writing gig with the Examiner after I got my second solicitor's letter for talking online about internet cowboys. Then I became one. I don't mean to omit uberblogger Donncha from this mix but I also reserve his place at the top of the tech mailing list heap. From ILUG came XEER, or so it seems to me. Donncha's archives stretch back at least seven years, which is like three blogging lifetimes to most of the current membership of the Irish blogosphere. Ruairi Roddy offered me the writing gig with the Examiner after I got my second solicitor’s letter for talking online about internet cowboys. Then I became one.

I don’t mean to omit uberblogger Donncha from this mix but I also reserve his place at the top of the tech mailing list heap. From ILUG came XEER, or so it seems to me. Donncha’s archives stretch back at least seven years, which is like three blogging lifetimes to most of the current membership of the Irish blogosphere.

]]> By: Piaras Kelly http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0520/irelands-first-paid-blogger/#comment-11851 Piaras Kelly Sat, 20 May 2006 11:16:07 +0000 http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0520/irelands-first-paid-blogger/#comment-11851 That's interesting Bernie, never knew your column in the Examiner sprung from your online efforts. That’s interesting Bernie, never knew your column in the Examiner sprung from your online efforts.

]]> By: Bernie Goldbach http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0520/irelands-first-paid-blogger/#comment-11803 Bernie Goldbach Sat, 20 May 2006 10:36:53 +0000 http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0520/irelands-first-paid-blogger/#comment-11803 You're only looking at 21st century Irish bloggers in your sample set. The elder statesmen of Irish blogging (Tom Murphy PR, Sean McGrath, Maura McHugh and myself) stretch back four or more years and all have penned profesionally--for hire or for offsets. The Examiner pays me for Friday columns. That gig came on the heels of my writing on Irish mailing lists and it started before Sheila Averbuch (nee McDonald) put ENN online with some of my writing contributing to the mix. Sean McGrath, who has more readers than me, Twenty and Damien combined, has several books published on the back of his blogging. Blogging complements paid publishing. A good writer doesn't have to be a blogger and a good blogger doesn't always get to be a paid writer. You’re only looking at 21st century Irish bloggers in your sample set. The elder statesmen of Irish blogging (Tom Murphy PR, Sean McGrath, Maura McHugh and myself) stretch back four or more years and all have penned profesionally–for hire or for offsets.

The Examiner pays me for Friday columns. That gig came on the heels of my writing on Irish mailing lists and it started before Sheila Averbuch (nee McDonald) put ENN online with some of my writing contributing to the mix.

Sean McGrath, who has more readers than me, Twenty and Damien combined, has several books published on the back of his blogging. Blogging complements paid publishing. A good writer doesn’t have to be a blogger and a good blogger doesn’t always get to be a paid writer.

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