2012 Annual review: closing this blog
Time for my 3rd, and perhaps last, annual review. The idea of an Annual Review is to look back over the preceding 12 months of posts every May and to reflect on if and how my thinking on the European...
View ArticleOn Esperanto for the EU online public sphere
Ceci n’est pas une relaunch of this blog. It’s just that Ronny’s post (How the dominance of English kills the European debate) has been largely hijacked by Esperantists, and I need more space to react...
View ArticleSketches on the Metro: rebooting Bloggingportal?
Update (13/10/2013): This post has generated a few questions & objections, which I’ve answered in a constantly updated FAQAO post. All posts on the Bloggingportal Reboot are tagged bloggingportal2....
View ArticleNetwork anatomy of the EU online public sphere
[update, 31/12/2013: literally hours after this post came Tony Lockett's Mapping the EU digital public sphere(s)] The above image is from Drake Baer‘s FastCompany article “Why Successful People Have So...
View ArticleEU public sphere blogtour: half full, or half empty?
Kübler-Ross You can go for months without a good post on the EU public sphere, and then a whole bunch come along at once. As I prepare for this Saturday’s meeting of those BloggingPortal Editors who...
View ArticleBloggingPortal + PressEurop = ?
[Happy Birthday, BloggingPortal! For the birthday present, scroll down] Last Thursday I finally caught up with Eric Maurice of PressEurop, which recently had its plug pulled by the EC following their...
View ArticleFactCheck EU or Grilling Kippers?
Tonight I’ll be toddling along to Grilling Kippers, a UKIP-focused anti-Eurosceptic campaign from deep within the Brussels Bubble. When I first heard about this, my initial reaction was to worry about...
View ArticleOn ‘blogging, content discovery and the EU public sphere’
This post started out as a comment to Blogging, content discovery and the European public sphere, Kosmopolito’s post marking Bloggingportal’s 5th birthday (all posts and more). However Kosmo, one of...
View ArticleBloggingPortal, meet conTEXT
Recent conversations on how Apache Stanbol, an EC research project, could both support the BloggingPortal reboot and use it to expand its language coverage led me to conTEXT, which “… allows to...
View ArticleDialogue of the deaf: interpreting the election results (updated)
Over 70% of EU voters did not vote for the EU. Where now? Update, 7/9/14: via Chris Whitehouse – apparently the figures are slightly worse – “the updated numbers, published on the Parliament website,...
View ArticleWow. Has it come to this?
Is primetime TV advertising the right way to connect citizens to the EU? Last week I saw and commented on an interesting blog post by Iveta Kazoka exploring one of the ‘broken channels’ which are...
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Applying advanced language technologies to EU democracy
An array of sophisticated language technologies could help ideas flow across EU borders, link national conversations together and support the EU Online Public Sphere – the demos the EU needs. But...
View ArticleBrand exchange & the new citizen conversation
Do people really want to have a conversation with brands, or their government? [Note: At last, a chance to bury the lede in a blog post. I started this post during my 2012-13 blogging hiatus, never...
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Towards a 21st century EU Communications Strategy
With independent journalism increasingly looking like an endangered species, a EU communication strategy that helped European media build the European Public Sphere would be a smarter longterm move...
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Exploring Translated Syndication at Future Media Lab 2016
The afternoon session at Future Media Lab 2016 showed that while European media are warming to the idea of using advanced language technologies to share content across borders, their audiences are...
View ArticleUnfair comparisons: #sotu v #soteu
A short post on the financial costs of not having a European Public Sphere. @voxdotcom did a 4-minute summary of Obama’s 2016 #sotu (State of the Union): Here in Brussels, the @EU_Commission did a...
View ArticlePrepping for AfterTrump
So you think “President Trump” is the worst case scenario? The rise of American authoritarianism provides the best article I’ve read explaining the Rise of Trump, even if it’s a bit longer than...
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Opening up EurActiv’s media innovation programme
EurActiv.com is opening one of its media innovations to other media interested in increasing competitiveness through translated syndication. (Update, 31/3/16: this project was covered, among many other...
View ArticleIs banning trolls a prerequisite or a defeat for free speech?
The permanent banning of uber-troll Milo Yiannopoulos from Twitter was probably long overdue. It’s time for non-trolls to stop complaining and start defending civility in our social spaces, or simply...
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