Guido Fawkes (Order-Order.com)

Guido Fawkes starts by telling us that he carries an Irish passport, why does everyone want to be Irish??

He started in Sep 2004, with a mission to make mischief and be a 21st century court jester, basing his image on a "Guy Fawkes" style character, aiming to disrupt the British Parliament.

Guido's talk was aimed towards what makes a blog popular:

• Good writing, Novelty aspects
• Know your market
• Find a good subject, narrowcast
  

He likes to play with catching the journalists plagiarising his posts and with trying to catch out politicians when they lie. He feels that addressing things by injecting humour helps to reach his audience in a better fashion.

Guido reminds us that for the majority of people, there is no real money to be made from blogging, although he has joined a band of british bloggers with high-traffic sites to gain advertising, so the A-list bloggers can make as much money as a journalist, but it's rare.

He also spoke at length about breaking news on his blog that the "traditional media" won't touch with a bargepole, usually because there isn't concrete proof...

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