The EU Copyright Directive Article 13 Threatens Internet Diversity
With all the focus on the implementation of the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, very fewContinue Reading
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Theresa May And The Tories Will Seek A British Internet For British People
The recent general election manifesto launch by Theresa May and the Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom highlights theContinue Reading
The Power of Privacy With Aleks Krotoski
Technology journalist and psychologist, Aleks Krotoski, presents a Guardian documentary, “The Power of Privacy”, examining growing concerns about private data and onlineContinue Reading
Vote For An Sionnach Fionn In The Blog Awards Ireland 2015
Another year, another nomination to the Blog Awards Ireland competition. This is the third time in a row for An Sionnach Fionn, though with noContinue Reading
Citizen Journalism And Bellingcat
If you are interested in what is commonly known as “citizen journalism“, the internet-invigorated tradition of independent news reporting and analyses coming from individualsContinue Reading
The Real and Fake Twitter Followers Of TheJournal.ie And George Hook
Back in March the social networking site Facebook insisted that I change my personal FB profile to a promotional FacebookContinue Reading
Here Be Dragons, Book Images Of The Internet Archive On Flickr
Susceptible as I am to the marriage of history with technology, being the original antiquarian-technophile, my love affair with the Internet ArchiveContinue Reading
Google Ngram Viewer, Irish Republican Army, Fenian, Fenians
Judging by the positive reactions it seems that many of you have enjoyed my occasional posts highlighting the earliest occurrences of the term “Irish RepublicanContinue Reading
Chronology of Irish History 1919–1923
Over the last year I’ve been contacted by a few people enquiring if I knew anything about the disappearance of the web-basedContinue Reading
A New Look For An Sionnach Fionn
You may have noticed a few changes in the layout of An Sionnach Fionn today though hopefully they are notContinue Reading
.éire Versus .ie
The people of Wales now have two national domain names to register their websites with, “.cymru“ and “.wales”, reflecting theirContinue Reading
Glenn Greenwald On War By Other Means
From Glenn Greenwald a must-read for Republican and progressive activists in Ireland and elsewhere examining how the internet is used andContinue Reading
Removal Of The RSS Feeds – Apologies
Yes, I know, the RSS feeds to like-minded websites in Ireland, Scotland and elsewhere have been removed from An SionnachContinue Reading
Britnats Target SNP Website Through Avast!
Here’s a thing. The avast! Online Security and Web Reputation Plugin, a web browser extension bundled with one of the world’s mostContinue Reading
From World Wide Web To World Wide Watch
The newspaper revelations by the Guardian and the Wall Street Journal in relation to the NSA’s positioning of itself asContinue Reading
Words Of Wisdom
Just a quick post to note and recommend the wonderful, informative and always entertaining Irish Blog at Transparent Language. Its idiosyncratic nature is its joy.Continue Reading
A Native Place
The new Irish language social networking site Abair Leat!, which is primarily aimed at language learners, has been officially launchedContinue Reading
Try Again 2012!
Talking of the Irish language online there is certainly a lot of speculation at the moment about the new websiteContinue Reading
Abair Leat! To Launch On 27th Of February
In December 2011 I wrote about a new online Irish language education network for language learners called “Abair Leat!“. Going throughContinue Reading
Get Your Gael On!
There’s an interesting site with some fun games for Irish language learners at Digital Dialects. The vocabulary seems correct and soContinue Reading
Stop Censorship! Protect Internet Freedoms!
Thank you to everyone who contacted me over the last 24 hours as An Sionnach Fionn joined the global internetContinue Reading
Some Irish Pride
The Irish language is about to take a technological leap that will place it, in terms of accessibility and knowledge, at theContinue Reading
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