5th Think Post - "What Women Want"

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Well I seam to be getting used to blogging over on the thinkaboutit.eu blog becuase I just published my 5th post on it! Its on women and European politics.

Eurobarometer recently did a Flash survey on Women and Politics in the EU. It found that 79% of Irish Women and 78% of women in the United Kingdom think that politics is male dominated.

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An opportunity not to be missed!

Do you blog? Are you free on March 27th and 28th? Fancy covering the European Greens Congress in Brussels and have it all paid for? Then check out their blog and find out how!

(H/T: Jan’s EUblog)

Changes are coming

Wow, Did you know I started blogging nearly four years ago? Well I did. I started blogging on the 21st of March 2005. On that day I had two posts, one about China and one about the Environment.

Four years is a long time to dedicate something, granted at times this blog has fallen to the wayside, but I do always come back, and now I am nearly blogging daily!

To Celebrate four years of blogging look out for anniversary posts running up to Saturday and (hopefully!) on Saturday this blog will take a new turn!

First Th!nk Post

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Well my first post is up on the Th!nk about it blog. It is on "How do we make Europe Sexy?". Please read, comment and vote!

Heres an excerpt from it:

One of the issues that kept coming up during the Launch event last week in Brussels was how do we make Europe Sexy? By Europe I mean the European Union. This is something that I have spent much time thinking about since getting back to Ireland.

I cannot think of any country in the world where politics is considered sexy except in the USA where Obama reinvigorated politics, but how can that work in a disconnected Europe?

Read the full post

Thanks
Steve

1000th Post

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So this is post number 1000! Wow, I've been blogging now for a month and a bit short of four years, but still, I feel like this is a bit of an achievement! That or I need a life, especially considering this is also post number 60 of 2009, yup definately need a life!

But in other news the Blogging Competition starts over on thinkaboutit.eu. It launches at midnight tonight and I plan to have my first post up on it at some point tomorrow and I hope then to start getting you all to vote (for me!)! So expect plenty of begging posts during the competition. I will be cross posting the entries during the competition so opinions can be given here or on the competition blog.

Anyway thanks for sticking with me over the last 999 posts! Heres to 1000 more!


Update: So yea, Gamma was right, this isnt my 1000th post, stupid dashboard was counting drafts aswell :(

Think About It - Update

Yes this, is the Blogging Competition thing that I am in. Im off to Brussels on Sunday for the launch. Will be back in Cork on Tuesday.

The organisers have a blog up with advice and stuff for us, but there is also information on the EU and other campaigns on it.

Some of the others taking part have linked to their websites, so here that are if you want to check out what I am up against. Not all the blogs are in English!

Making Things Happen - Italy
Kleita - Latvia(Its Martha that is in the Competition I think)
Jose Miguel Calatayud's websitt -Spain
Etan Smallman - UK
Paris Never Ends - Lithuania
Katrina Bishop Blogs - UK
AriRusila’s BalkanBlog - Finland
The International - Germany
(un)fencing the mind - The Netherlands
Блогът на Юруков - Bulguria
phat phred - Sweden
European Tribune Diary of Frank Schnittger - Ireland
pypiaus blog’as - Lithuania
Corina Murafa - Romania
AnTyx - Estonia
BORUT PETERLIN, a Slovenian photographer in a rabbit hole of photography - Slovenia
Thailand tur/retur - Denmark
Lehet, Más a Világ - Hungary
Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day - Ireland
Intialektualu - Lithuania

I will update the list as I get more links.

Sunday night sees a meetup in one of the hotels followed by a 9:30am start on the Monday in Sofitel. We will be having panel discussions on blogging on the like. It should be fun! Tuesday will see us visit the European Parliament. It will be my third visit. I am getting the full program tomorrow!

I am very excited!

I'm in Shock

Remember my post about the EU Blogging Compeition? Well guess who has been selected as one of the three participants from Ireland to attend the launch event?

ME!

I cannot believe it! I am soooo excited and over the moon! On sunday the 25th I head out to Brussels for the launch event! So there shall be plenty of blogging from me next year!

Youth Tech Event - The Yewt Meetup

@Endac and others are organising a Youth Tech event and want ideas and stuff! take a pop over to contrar.ie and give some!

Also spread the word!

Update: Alan is also helping to organise it so tell him your ideas too!

Blogging Competition

Think about it is a european blogging competition. The full details of which is on the website.

What does it entail?

Each participant will post at least once a month (February 1 – June 9, 2009) on the THINK ABOUT IT Elections 2009 blogsite. In February and March, any European-related topic is welcome and from April-June the theme is the European Elections 2009 (issues, candidates, parties, EP, national views on the elections). Photos, audio and video are always encouraged! Postings have to be made in English (does not have to be perfect English; the five site editors can help with the language, if the blogger so wishes).

It sounds interesting and as I will be involved with the European Campiagn here in Ireland South it should be really interesting.

Plurking about

Those of you who read this blog and were on my twitter knew I was fairly good at updating that in Germany but since I got back I'm useless! There is a reason for this. My tweets fell off after they had problems with the IM use. Thats how I used it so I havent used it really since then. Tough I went mad on it last night!

On Friendfeed tough I discovered a new (well new to me) site and its like twitter in the fact that its micro blogging. Those with eagle eyes will have noticed the new box on the sidebar but, for those who haven't check out my plurk and have a poke around and maybe join it?

I prefer it to twitter as to me its more fluid and interactive. its great that it keeps track of conversations so there is no searching through pages looking for stuff. Its all neat and tidy and there is plenty of customisable stuff on the site too as long as you keep your karma up, which is interesting in its own way!

So take a look and join me?

Bloggers United

Roy of IrishTaxi has set up a forum for us bloggers to discuss, whatever really, from Blogging Platforms, to our posts, to making money from your blogs or just whatever the hell you want!

Head over and say hello!

Bloggers United

Introducing The Daily Bohomian

Ever find a blog that has you laughing at points and nodding philsophicaly at others and gets an important point across too? (No I am not vain enough to be on about my own blogs, I know its shite at times!) Well after I started a thread on PolUK, one of the players, who happens to be my boss IG (in game for all those not in the know), started a blog called:

The Daily Bohomian

Its a fantastic blog which has me laughing, thinking, feeling sad and proud! An excellent read. I hope he continues to post!

So thats two other PolUK Bloggers.... any more out there?

Intersting Project from the UK House of Lords

Via Revolts.co.uk

An interesting initiative from the House of Lords, in association with the Hansard Society, Lords of the Blog, is a multi-authored blog from nine members of the House of Lords, and which has the potential to be very useful.

It is a very interesting blog with a member from the Labour benches, Conservative benches and Crossbenchers (the Convenor of all people!) as well as 6 other independent Lords. It is an interesting read to see what goes on in the upper house of the UK.

Karneval Break! Normal Service resumes on the 5.2.08

Just to let everyone know that i doubt I will be blogging between now and the 5th of February due to Karneval her in Köln. Have a nice weekend everyone and I will get back to blogging about the Treaty of Lisbon and German Politics (proabably Eurovision also) from that date!

Tschüs!
Kölle Alaaf!

EDIT: Fixed the dates. I never was good with them!

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