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06 June 2010

Changes

All for the better

05 May 2010

Social entrepreneur? Give me a break

Nothing is safe from being colonised

03 May 2010

The road leading to Bosnia

Your humble editor syndicated in Bosnia

22 April 2010

I am not a lizard

forth is under scrutiny from SpinWatch – here’s the truth

21 April 2010

Time for things

For the first time since forth’s launch I’ve had a few days off - not that I wanted them

Time for things

For the first time since forth’s launch I’ve had a few days off - not that I wanted them

14 April 2010

How magnets work

Swear-happy freakshow Christian rappers Insane Clown Posse have a refreshing and child-like wonder at the world but it’s about time they went back to muthafukin’ magnet school, says JASON WALSH

10 April 2010

Debating with the devil

Or, why it’s sometimes just not even worth bothering

04 April 2010

Many, many thanks

A list of people who would live forever if it was in my gift

03 April 2010

“The problem with [it] is that everything is its domain”

Wise words from a medical man

25 March 2010

Keeping-on and keeping-up

An update from the tiring side of publishing

In print (-ish)

forth‘s monthly PDF, forth briefing, is due real soon now…

23 March 2010

A world of news

It’s not just the pope.

14 March 2010

My struggle with 100 per cent pure Egyptian cotton

Ahem.

13 March 2010

Flannery

Early morning stroll through Phoenix Park and along the quays.

09 March 2010

Dark matter revealed

Interesting science story from the CSM

American right to copy left’s tactics?

20 February 2010

We are 500

Halfway to a thousand articles – that’s going forth

16 February 2010

A short break in service

Back later today

11 February 2010

Vulgar economics

Work, money and everything else

forth’s new subscription model

All you need to know about the new forth

07 February 2010

Future-orientation

Current thinking on forth

01 February 2010

And like that…

The shape of things to come?

What forth costs to run

We’ve been publishing for four months – here is what that would cost if forth was a commercial operation

forth traffic report

In bar chart form

31 January 2010

It’s not contrarianism

It’s a process of debate

The link economy

It’s a fantasy.

18 January 2010

forth editor’s Independent story quoted in Daily Telegraph

More media coverage for forth. Sort of.

17 January 2010

A busy week in hack town

And not just in forth

12 January 2010

Radio Four picks up forth

Computers – and the idiots that use them

Data blues.

11 January 2010

The Sindo doesn’t like forth

Or its editor.

16 December 2009

A visual report on traffic

Who likes bar charts?

10 December 2009

Announcing an announcement

Something wicked this way comes

05 December 2009

Some facts about forth readers

Statistically speaking

03 December 2009

Truckin’ away

Not much in the way of blogs recently but plenty of good articles – and more to come

28 November 2009

Back on track

A fresh start for forth

24 November 2009

Good days and bad

Today on forth

21 November 2009

How to argue

Derek Wall is a green. I am not. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get on.

16 November 2009

Sick Brian

Cowen to bring in prescription charges

12 November 2009

Man found guilty of owning a jacket and some boxes

Er, what?

Report of the century: US president powerful

Ah, so that’s what I didn’t realise!

04 November 2009

forth cited in Le Monde Diplomatique

James Heartfield’s article on the Lisbon Treaty, ‘Ireland votes Yes: It’s not just the economy’ is cited Christopher Bickerton, writing in Le Monde Diplomatique.

31 October 2009

forth in the Guardian

And they do attribute

28 October 2009

Ben Dunne: my hero

Christ almighty, Ben Dunne is speaking sense on the radio

Unfortunate headline of the day

Is the Lieberman gay? His name is almost Yiddish for man love, after all…

Struck off and die

Arthur Scargill is in Ireland – don’t let the creaky old Stalinist own the miners’ strike

27 October 2009

Notice for Internet Explorer, Opera and iPhone users

Some technical notes.

21 October 2009

Criminal communists colonise country: Eddie Hobbs

What’s the weather like on planet Hobbs?

19 October 2009

Deputy readers

Greetings, elected representatives.

Irish press release

So independent it doesn’t attribute

forth is quoted in the Independent of London – not that you’d know.

18 October 2009

Progress report on forth

Just so you know: Irish current affairs site breaks 10,000 reader barrier before launching

16 October 2009

E-book revolutions

Maybe.

Bloody browsers

It’s an endless round of testing…

13 October 2009

Climate researchers pour cold water on global warming

Temperatures have fallen over the last eleven years.

11 October 2009

Did a drug lead to killing?

Asks the Irish Times.

Why newspaper editors should listen to me

The BBC reports that the INLA has stood down.

10 October 2009

Another new site

Focussed on technology this time.

Lies, damn lies…

And traffic analysis.

08 October 2009

Syndication

Not even a full day in yet and we have a syndication request.

First day report

How’s it going? Surprisingly well.

Next week on forth

Stories include:

21 August 2009

British car manufacturing

UK motor production down 17.9 per cent, reports the BBC.

19 August 2009

Filing and waiting

What’s going on…

John Calvin

It’s not often that one reads about Calvin in the press.

Doom vs doom

Someone has actually managed to make George Monbiot look like a humanist.

14 August 2009

You won’t get me (much) ‘cos I’m in the union

The ex-workers rising

13 August 2009

Stand by your republic

Fianna Fáil discover republicanism. Sort of.

Is Lisbon the capital of the Middle East

Confused politics.

12 August 2009

Unemployment in Britain up to 2.4m

Bad news.

On the plate this week

Current working list:

11 August 2009

Unhappy Hillary

Whoops! Oh, wait, I did it too.