Controversy in Irish blogging community

I like checking out Damien Mulley’s fluffy links and other various things he writes about, but there have been a number of posts lately on mulley.net that have just left me shaking my head thinking this isn’t the way a professional communicator and social media expert should put their message across. The How not to get blacklisted by me post is an example. There are lots of very valid points in there which are important but if I was someone that wanted to hire him as a consultant, I’d read a post like that and have second thoughts.

As a champion of the Irish blogging community and the Irish Blog Awards, I think it is shameful the way a person who voiced an opinion about the Irish blog scene and the awards was, apparantly, labelled “a bitter c*nt” on a twitter post.

In this interview, Damien was asked if the Irish Blog Awards can achieve anything. His answer was :

I think we are about to reach the tipping-point for blogs in Ireland, not as a new revolution but just a new way of conversing and sharing opinion and working with people. I don’t think it can change the world or make companies millions but it might change attitudes just ever so slightly and might teach people that their voice can matter.

Well, Rosie’s voice matters too and name calling like that is truly dispicable and unprofessional behaviour from the leading light of the Irish blogging community. It sickens me to the core and I think an apology is warranted. Rosie doesn’t need anyone to stick up for her, I know that, but I’m surprised that no one has picked out this shameful episode and called the perpetrator to task.

makemulleyhappy.net has been registered and I plan to do “something” with it. Don’t know what yet – but a link to an apology to Rosie might make a nice front page to start with.