Happy Birthday, BloggingPortal(?)

Posted by Mathew Lowry on 25/01/12

Apparently tomorrow – apart from being Australia Day – is BloggingPortal’s 3rd birthday. What does it’s state tell us about the EU Online Public Space? How many more friends can I lose anyway? [Update: read a blogtour of 11 other posts celebrating this auspicious occasion] BloggingPortal’s USP is deceptively simple: if you want to know [...]

Building a Blogosphere: any questions for a panel discussion? (updated)

Posted by Mathew Lowry on 12/06/11

Next Tuesday (14/6) I’ll be running a short panel with Gergely Polner, spokesman for the HU Presidency of the Council of EU, three other BloggingPortal editors  (Joe Litobarski, Alia Papageorgiou and Ronny Patz), and Dr Mark Pack, one of the editors of Lib Dem Voice in the UK, on “why there isn’t a bigger and [...]

2011 Annual Review

Posted by Mathew Lowry on 24/05/11

Time for my second Annual Review. Try to curb your enthusiasm. The idea of an Annual Review started last year with the BloggingPortal-inspired EU Blogging Carnival, held in May. I thought then it’d be interesting to look back over the preceding 12 months of posts and to reflect on if and how my thinking on [...]

Europe with a LiSP (updated)

Posted by Mathew Lowry on 20/04/11

While lobbyists scramble to use the European Citizens’ Initiative to their advantage, one of the other innovations of the Lisbon Treaty seems to have raised so little interest that it doesn’t even have a TLA (Three Letter Acronym). Surely the kiss of death? I’m referring to the subsidiarity check procedure, which a while ago I [...]

Blogtour: The Hungarian Presidency opens up the Council (updated)

Posted by Mathew Lowry on 12/03/11

A few weeks before the Hungarian media storm broke late last year, the BloggingPortal editors were contacted by the (then upcoming) Hungarian Presidency team, seeking ideas for how they could cooperate with the Euroblogosphere. Being a loosely-at-best organised gang of volunteers, it took us a while to respond. To their immense credit, the Presidency team [...]

Censoring Hungarian blogs during the Hungarian EU Presidency (Updated 4x)

Posted by Mathew Lowry on 22/12/10

As reported on Bloggingportal.eu: “On January 1st, Hungary will take over the Presidency of the EU Council. On the same day, a controversial new law will come into force that even the OSCE’s media freedom representative has openly criticised – arguing in a recent report that “regulating online media … exerts a chilling, self-censoring effect [...]

Bloggingportal2: What, Why, How … and When?

Posted by Mathew Lowry on 25/07/10

As I and other BP editors have hinted at recently, over the past 6 or more months we’ve had a series of email discussions about how to develop BloggingPortal.  In fact, one such discussion – based around an idea I launched via a Google document – drew to a close literally days before others suggested [...]

Scienceblogs: an inspirationally cautionary tale for EU social media? (updated)

Posted by Mathew Lowry on 23/07/10

[update: a tiny extra take-away added at the very end of the post, a few hours later] When I came to Brussels in 1991 it was as a science writer. It remained my profession for many years, so when scienceblogs.com was launched in 2006 I checked it out … but never really had the time to [...]

What Europe do you want? The My Europe Week Blog Carnival is coming

Posted by Mathew Lowry on 23/04/10

BloggingPortal.eu is setting up the My Europe Week Blog Carnival, and want you to take part, whether you’re a blogger or not. “We want you to write about your Europe. What you want from Europe. How you want Europe to develop … your declaration on what you want from Europe … We want both bloggers [...]

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