Educasting from Ireland

Michael Jackson in Ireland

CLONMEL -- Michael Jackson's "Beat It" returns to normal airplay throughout southeast Ireland today as the musician returns to Neverland for recuperation. On the front pages of the mainstream Irish press, the newspapers give this accounting:

• Irish Independent: "Jackson Innocent"
• Irish Times: "Jury clears Michael Jackson"
• Irish Examiner: "Jackson Cleared"
• Irish Daily Mirror: "Not Guilty"
• Irish Daily Star: "Not Guilty"
• Irish Sun: "He Beat It"

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I could not retrieve the CNN story until four hours after the headline broke. The traffic to CNN was withering.
Bonus Link: Flickr Photos tagged with "MichaelJackson" are among the top 10 tags of the day.

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Learning from winners

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER -- The annual EPpy Awards winners were announced this week at the Interactive Media conference. One of the top-flight winners was the New York Times in the highly competitive category for big-traffic news sites. In Steve Outing's opinion, "a significant part of the site's success is the devotion to multimedia storytelling. It's developed some smart multimedia storytelling format templates that work well for news".

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Steve Outing -- "Another Round of EPpy Winners, More Ideas"

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Sunday Tribune blogging extracts

TRIBUNE -- The Sunday Tribune's weekly recap of blogging features selections from several Irishblogs, including Best Of Both Worlds, Irish Eagle, Redmum, and Tom Raftery.

Tribune selects from Irish blogs

TRIBUNE -- The Sunday Tribune gives 800 words this week to excerpts from Irishblogs and the resulting column (extracts below) happens to mirror much of the headline news from the previous week. The selections this week include reflections on the Meath bus crash, Conor Lenihan as a kebab chef, a Star Wars horoscope, cyberstalking, and deranged art. From the Tribune:

Tribune Blogosphere

TRIBUNE -- The 1 May 2050 Sunday Tribune's weekly review of Irishblogs features extracts from Brian Greene, Liam Burke, TCAL, Gavin Sheridan and Peerside. Excerpts follow:

Sunday Tribune on Irish Blogs

TRIBUNE -- The Sunday Tribune's weekly review of Irishblogs on 24 April 2005 includes clippings from Blog Snorkeller, Efferal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind (sic), Colm Bracken, and IrishEyes. Extracts follow.

Business of electronic publishing

NY POST -- The New York Post reported how the online edition of the Wall Street Journal is affecting the paper's economics. In his article, Paul Tharp writes: "Earnings plunged by 54 percent at the newspaper's parent Dow Jones & Co., with its fledgling online operations earning more money for the first time than the flagship Journal and the weekly Barron's." As do several other readers of Irishblogs, I pay WSJ around €50 annually for access and it's worth the money because I cannot get daily Wall Street reporting any other way deep in County Tipperary, Ireland. It seems that my need for news is similar to thousands of others.

Tribune Blogosphere

TRIBUNE -- The Sunday Tribune continued trawling Irishblogs, citing stories on Gerry Adams, The Big Bite, and the passing of the Pope. Blogs cited include N.Irish Magyar, Caoimhe Burke, Irish Eagle, and Blather.

Sunday Tribune on Irish blogs

TRIBUNE -- This week, the "Blogosphere" in the Sunday Tribune mentions Alive in Limerick, Technoculture, Babblogue, IrishEyes and Irish Eagle. Extract follows.

Sunday Tribune on Irish blogs

TRIBUNE -- "Joe Bloggs" writes in the Sunday Tribune about the "Blogosphere" (should be simply " Irishblogs". Today's citations come from Slugger, BSD, Twenty, Marking Time, and Gerry O'Sullivan. The article follows.