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Radio music. Newspaper. Fresh coffee.
Starting the weekend with radio music, the newspaper, and a big cup of black coffee. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cafemama/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Good morning, Europe! PS.: My reading recommendation for the weekend are the panel presentations (panel 1 &...
No pay, no ads – explaining my blogging approach
An interesting debate has broken out in Brussels this week over the declining number of accredited journalists that follow the work of the EU institutions. Charlemagne and Leigh Phillips have differing approaches to the issue, and Julien has a viscer...
This blog has moved
I’m now at http://steffenmoller.wordpress.com. No major overhaul apart from a brand spanking new picture of me smiling no less (apparently I look like a d**k in the one on the right, I’m told.) The steffen78 in the URL didn’t make m...
2020
2020 Europe 2020, odyssée de l’espace ? Non, il s'agit du nom de code de la stratégie de relance économique proposée pour les dix années à venir par la Commission Barroso Bis. En to...
Overconfidence & blogging
Sometimes you should just shut up and think before you write your unreasonably overconfident comments into the web. And with "you" I mean me. My excuses go to Eurotribune.
Roundup: “The decline of Europe’s social democratic parties” and more…
MAIN FOCUS: EU may help Athens | 17/03/2010 from euro|topics The financial ministers of the Eurozone countries have not as it turns out presented a concrete bailout plan for Greece, but merely agreed at the beginning of the week on &#...
This blog has moved
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The Week in Bloggingportal: March 8th – March 14th 2010
Hello, and welcome to the latest edition of The Week in Bloggingportal, our weekly round-up of the best of the Euroblogosphere! This week’s edition has been written by Joe Litobarski and Julien Frisch. First up, let’s introduce a new sect...
The Week in Bloggingportal: March 1st – March 7th 2010
Hello, and welcome to the first edition of The Week in Bloggingportal. This will hopefully be the first in a series of posts from the Bloggingportal editorial team that adds some context to our front-page choices and serves as a place for public disc...
Groups in EU social media: not so ridiculously easy
A while back I and a number of others were blogging about how a very light, bottom-up usage of Web2-style tools and techniques (bloggingportal, delicious, tagging, google alerts, etc.) could help build links between national and EU online discussions...
An honest voice: Kristalina Georgieva's blog
It is not natural that high level politicians keep their natural voice, but the new EU Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva seems to prove the contrary in her new blog. Georgieva has served as World Bank vice president before being nominated as EU Comm...
Lavomatic
Lavomatic Jeu de massacre année 0. Si notre pauvre Cathy est au piquet, son acolyte Van Rompez n’a guère plus de succès. La Baronne, en charge des relations extérieures de l'UE, suscite ainsi les commentai...
Random : Julien Frisch & Writing for (y)EU
Random : Julien Frisch & Writing for (y)EU Sans aucune justification, je m’en vais remettre un double pruneau d’or en ce mois de mars car momifiée ces dernières semaines par le froid ambiant, j’ai honteusement ou...
20 women who run the EU (blogosphere) - updated
In the German blogosphere, we have recently seen a controversial debate (started by annalist) about the question why only men were among the so-called "alpha bloggers" in a video series about important bloggers, a debate that has led to the inclusion...
A Swift look at Twitter
The so-called SWIFT agreement was not only a kind of miracle that made it possible to watch EPLive with a lot of emotion, passion and tension. It was also, for me, the occasion to better understand Twitter, on which I thought as Kurt (post of 9 Feb)...
Apply for TH!NK3 – Millennium Development Goals
The third edition of Th!nk about it has been announced. It is a blogging competition run by the European Journalism Centre which will focus on on the developing world and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG): The competition will bring together jou...
Discussing with Jean Quatremer about blogging
Last June, I wrote a post titled "Why the 'Coulisses de Bruxelles' is not a really good blog" and my critique to Jean Quatremer's blog "Coulisses de Bruxelles" was that he never links to other blogs. Jean who writes one of the most-read (if not the...
Blogging Break
The European Citizen will take a short break for the next week. The post rate had been declining lately, because real life work needed to be dealt with. For the next week, I'll be taking part in an International Criminal Court mooting (mock trial) co...
Register for TH!NK3!
Image via Wikipedia I got this via Email from the European Journalism Centre. I took part in Th!nk1 and Th!nk2 (though didn’t finish it). Do check it out. The European Journalism Centre (EJC) invites you to apply for the third round of our a...
Apologies for the Silence
I know I’ve been very silent for the last few weeks – and you’ve maybe noticed that I’ve taken my site down. I’m sorry about all this. My only excuse is that I’ve been unbelievably busy with real-world things recen...
Power of blogs
I’ve received three more answers now. All of them long, detailed and written by the MEPs themselves. At the same time, my visitor statistics have seen an unusual peak in visitors and show a surprising number of email-providers as the sending w...
Kücükdeveci - A European case
If you believe the comments of bloggers from all over Europe, the Kücükdeveci case (C-555/07) in front of the European Court of Justice might have been both, another milestone in the legal primacy of EU law over national law and a precedent for the...
Europe in blogs - Euroblogs (13): A month full of hearings
It has been a long time since the last Europe in blogs - Euroblogs - so I thought it's worth looking back to January, a month in which Commissioners were given a mouthful by MEPs and bloggers. But let's first start at the end of the month when Nosem...
Who’s the twit?
So, I’ve made a decision to change the approach to Twitter. As you may have noticed, I’m a big fan. I love the interaction with people, the information and intelligence and having a lovely helpful network at your fingertips (literally) to...
Twittering the hearings
Just a short post to draw attention to one of the more interesting aspects of the hearings of commissioners-designate, one which may mark an important change in the way EP political groups communicate. I was fascinated to observe during the seven d...
CTA Weblog/Newsletter survey
This week is your last chance to fill the questionnaire and give feedback on this news service. The Brussels Weblog team would be very grateful if you could spend a few minutes to reply to the questionnaire below on the quality of the Brussels ACP-E...
A good read on Euroscepticism (and a Euro roundup)
Nosemonkey interviewed: On euroscepticism from Nosemonkey’s EUtopia Forgot all about this, as the interview was originally conducted back in October, but it’s in the latest issue of Shift Mag, which focusses on Euroscepticism. Have a gander a...
Rotten tomatoes?
Rottentomatoes.com actually haven’t got round to it yet, but we are seeing some reaction to our “six-pack” of videos on the web quite rapidly. So far, thanks to the critics, who seem to like what we did. First off the mark was Julie...
Jerzy Buzek: Are 140 characters enough to make a personality?
Jerzy Buzek, the Polish President of the European Parliament, has had a Twitter account for a week and has so far been delivering his daily tweet. The President and his communications team have strongly committed themselves to digital openness, wi...
Subscribe!
Following a reader’s suggestions, we added a “Subscribe to comments” feature thanks to an easy-enough-to-install Word Press plug-in. So, whenever you leave a comment under one of our posts, you can now subscribe to the thread and be...
Must-reads of the week
A Deal with the Taliban? — By Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books An Israeli attack on Iran? Don’t hold your breath — By Michael Young, The National Israeli-Palestinian talks may resume, but what for? — By Yossi Alpher, Daily S...
Why I am Euroblogging in English
I started to write a blog post in German, and then I erased everything because it didn't sound right. The reason I even though about blogging in German was this request by Europaeum yesterday:Außerdem wünsche ich mir von den vielen Euroblogs noch...
Who are the main players in the EU-twittersphere?
Edelman have cooked up a little tool called TweetLevel that gives a number that judges an individual’s influence on Twitter. 0 is the minimum score and 100 the maximum. Left Foot Forward has had a go at working out which Labour people have most...
Lisbon and the Euroblogosphere: my first use of the “c”-word
That’s right - curation. Now officially Web2.0-buzzword-of-the-month (not quite sure which one). And here was me thinking that curation was something knowledge workers have been doing ever since there was knowledge to work with. So stand by fo...
Bloggingportal EU anniversary roundup
Happy Birthday to EU, Happy Birthday to EU, Happy Birthday, Dear Bloggingportal, Happy Birthday to EU! Bloggingportal.eu The first anniversary of the multilingual blog aggregator Bloggingportal.eu 26 January 2010 was recorded by a number of stalwart...
Happy birthday, bloggingportal.eu!!!
One year ago, the most important innovation of the Euroblogosphere was born: Bloggingportal.eu Thus, exactly one year ago, I wrote in a post about the newly established Bloggingportal.eu:I hope that through this tool, the interest in the EUropean bl...
Celebrating 1 Year of Bloggingportal.eu
Bloggingportal.eu is 1 year old today!Though it's only been around for a short time, the blog aggragator quickly became a focal point for the Euroblogging community, and I doubt that anyone can quite picture doing without it today. Bloggingportal.eu...
Happy birthday!
Blogging portal.eu agregates the best of euroblogging and, yes, sometimes they featured us on their top page. They celebrate their first birthday and “more than 500 euroblogs, 25 editors and thousands of visitors! ” Happy birthday and lo...
Happy Birthday to Bloggingportal.eu!
Today we are celebrating bloggingportal.eu’s first birthday. It’s hard to believe it is still so young. It now aggregates more than 500 euroblogs and blogs talking about the EU in all kinds of languages. The project is grassroots. We are not get...
One year Bloggingportal.eu
Happy birthday to bloggingportal.eu! We are celebrating 1 year of Bloggingportal.eu! Last January we launched the page and it has been a great first year. More than 500 euroblogs, 25 editors and thousands of visitors! Thanks for all your support a...
Plod and Blogs
Further to Jim’s piece below, Seismic’s story got me into a fury. At 10am on Sunday 29th November 2009, I received a visit from two policemen regarding my activities in running the Seismic Shock blog. [FFS! – why aren’t they in HQ fil...
When is a blog not a blog?
Answer: when the blogger doesn’t publish comments or trackbacks. But why are so many of these Charade Blogs supposedly ‘blogs on European communications’? Are there too many freshly minted ’social media experts’ in Bruss...
Orwell's death, eurosceptic blogging & an apple from 1984
60 years ago, George Orwell died. And thankfully, Shiraz Socialist has not picked some cheap reference to 1984 but a quote by Orwell that has a lot to do with political blogging. The first two sentence are already both, inspiring and critical to an...
400th Post
In my first post of 11 October 2007, I wrote: “This is the beginning of an unknown journey for me. I hope that you find I have something worthwhile to say and that you will bear with me until I professionalise my blogging.” All I can say that I k...
Europa im Netz
Einer der ersten Artikel über “uns euroblogger” in einer traditionellen überregionalen Zeitung (oder ist das etwa der erste ueberhaupt?), und dann auch noch ausgerechnet in der Schweiz - einem nicht EU-Mitglied! Es würde mich natür...
Hearing Silence?
Discussing Hearings online: a way to break the Silence? Discussing face to face? The idea was to write a blog about the “backstage” of the hearings: what are visitors’ impressions about this event, what they think about organiza...
Old media, new media and Mr Bean
The story of the Mr Bean “hack” of the Spanish Presidency website got me thinking. Not the story itself, which is just an amusing diversion. But Joe Litobarski’s excellent analysis led me to compare the way the story was covered by...
Chasing Brussels Podcast Episode 010: Happy New Year!
I couldn't participate this time, but the first Chasing Brussels euroblog podcast has been recorded and published: "This week in Chasing Brussels, Irish blogger Conor Slowey is in the hosting hotseat and he’s joined by a panel of bloggers...
History blogging: The Commission hearings 2004
From time to time we need a little history blogging to see what connects the present and the past. So I just had a look at Nosemonkey's blog and his posts from 2004, like this one, this one or this one with the following quote:"[A]re EU states DELIB...
Live-blogging the EU Commisioner confirmation hearings (day 3)
from the European Parliament's portal: from 1300-1600 CET Janez Potočnik (Environment) and László Andor (Employment,...
Chasing Brussels #10: Happy New Year
Chasing Brussels episode 10 is out now.As the first episode of the year, we've taken the chance to look back on 2009 and look forward to 2010 and what it holds for the EU. Also, in this episode we've two new podcasters: Eurosocialiste and Ralf Grahn...
Want to know what my voice sounds like?
Then listen to this week’s podcast in Chasing Brussels!
Chasing Brussels – Episode 10
How would eurobloggers rate the year 2009 in EU politics? And what does 2010 hold?
Chasing Brussels podcast online
The first 2010 podcast of Chasing Brussels is now on offer for listeners, with five eurobloggers looking back at their moments with regard to the European Union in 2009. Ralf Grahnhttp://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping...
ALF Forum 2010
Image via Wikipedia The Anna Lindh Foundation Forum 2010 takes place in Barcelona from the 4th of March to the 7th of March. The Forum aims to give new momentum to the cooperation among civil society organizations committed to intercultural dialog...
So long 2009! Welcome 2010!
A couple of days ago, I took part in the recording of the podcast Chasing Brussels. We were asked what we thought the highlights of 2009 were and what those of 2010 may be. 2009 has been a year of great renewal for me. For the first time, I got very...
Yourope on ARTE: Review of the first broadcast
Yourope, the second new Europe-and-the-web format of ARTE (on ARTE+7) has everything I expected from "The Blogger" which I have just criticised. 26 minutes definitely worth watching!
"Le Bloguer" / "Der Blogger" on ARTE: Review of the first broadcast
I have to admit that when I blogged with positive anticipation that ARTE would introduce a new format called "Le Bloguer" / "Der Blogger" (The Blogger), I expected something totally different. I had thought that this would be a format in which they...
Examples of a European blogosphere: The EP web editors cry for help
No, I am not going to warm up the whole discussion on the European blogosphere we've had recently. Neither will I be talking about Euroblogging or how news spread from new to old media and back. All I want to point to is that Tibo from the European...
Take that, Britney!
Just passing by to say that Steve’s post on helping us in rethinking the EP website is now the most viewed, far front of our previous record: “Sex, porn and Britney Spear“. Take that, Britney! Now, I can talk to my mom about this bl...
Quadrature
Quadrature Tout ça pour ça ! Après la polémique mondiale, les referendums avortés, les coups fourrés de Klaus and Co, le Charlemagne’s Notebook se montre impitoyable sur les suites de Lisbonn...
"The European Citizen" is one year old today!
In some ways it's hard to believe it (and in other ways not so hard), but The European Citizen blog has been up and running for a year now today. Blogging has been very new to me, and, particularly being an old technophobe at heart, there's been a bi...
CTA Weblog/Newsletter survey
The Brussels Weblog team would be very grateful if you could spend a few minutes to reply to the questionnaire below on the quality of the Brussels ACP-EU News Service (http://brussels.cta.int). Your feedback is critical to us if we want to ensure th...
Opinion poll: Where do you get your EU news from?
The poll was started by the European Journalism Centre. Additional answers may be put into the comments.
Overcoming negative stereotypes in the South Caucasus
New media can be good and bad as any media can be good and bad, depending on the content of communication and the presentation of the content. Earlier this week we could witness how the interplay of new communication forms and the machinery of the t...
