Oscar Shandra-Penhaligon asks:
….whatever happened to the Irish blog and web heroes of old? Like: Bock the Robber, Damien Mulley, Twenty Major, Indymedia.ie, Chekov Feeney. Did they move over to The Journal?
Anyone?
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Twenty is now ‘monetizing’ his ‘content’ via arseblog.
My guess is the rise of Twitter played a big part in the fall in popularity of bloggers like these.
exactly
wiffy, social media, and smartypants phones replaced the traditional blogger
and pretty much swamped the original sites that were stuck on their own format from fitted and fixtured, and not in anyway mobile or flexible or transferable
lads now just want to scroll and swipe
and that’s grand
but you’ll never see the monster threads again
any daycent site is now either gone or members only
and I don’t think PV have admitted anyone new since 2010
(by the looks of it anyway)
its now way easier to just follow your favourite commentators on the twitter than have to sit down and log in etc
what’s PV?
premierview
Tipp Ultras carry on
It’s entirely possible noone has WANTED to join since 2010.
That might not be the best example of an old school web favorite
‘course it is
thanks for proving the point on my behalf Rottie
we’ve all moved onto other forms of inter’netting since social media became a ting
and some of us have kept the old ‘schools going in our own way, and just between ourselves and for ourselves.
I see you’re still taking that referendum result a bit hard with that mood yer in lately
ara’ move on bhoy
they’ll be plenty more you might get right and not make a rhymes with Brit of yerself
Spoiler Alert
you walked yerself into a beauty there the other day
an’ it’ll be like you got branded by the time you get yourself out of it
no better bhoy for it either
indymedia forgot that everything went mobile by the look of the site; Mulley became a social media trainer; I thought Major just called it a day due to lack of money as many bloggers do… dunno about the rest…
Bock had an obsession with Gaza , blocked anyone who disagreed with him which usually results in feeble commentary. Typical Limerick .
I heard Bock went fugitive and joined Isis.
Twenty is selling his as s down the back of the George until he writes a new novel about gangsters in Costa Brava.
Indymedia.ie crashed and burned a long time ago. Usurped by Politics.ie. Feeney worked for Vincent Browne’s iteration of Village Magazine.
Mulley has not been heard as the voice of RTE Morning Ireland’s soft touch Interweb’s reporting for yonks, but teaches companies how to use Facebook, etc. No idea about the others’s fate. Don’t hear so much about SuzyBIE either now.
With the exception of Indymedia, the others were a clique, all pumping up each other’s greatness through awards, shoutouts on their blogs, etc. Twitter, mobile, and other channels killed blogging, agreed, and its now a niche bloodsport, but these innovators failed to be relevant even to each other.
Now we got Harbo instead … no wait….
Apart from possibly indymedia, they were all absolute rubbish and pretty irellevant and not missed by anyone.
Boards.ie probably disseminated a lot more info and entertainment than all the others mentioned put together and they’re still going strong
it did in it’s whole
Isn’t Boards.ie and thejournal.ie run by the same company? Boards.ie is almost as toxic except the toxicity is enabled by their so-called moderators (silicon Stasi). Whatever happened yer man Darragh Bluenose Fly?
Did he go to Ireland.com?