Blogs: Literature or Politics

Today it was announced that Riverbend, the author of Baghdad Burning, has been longlisted for a £30,000 Literary Award.  This follows on from the critical acclaim for the somewhat less worthy Belle de Jour.  Congratulations to the anonymous bloggers. The other high profile arrival in the blogging world is very Read more…

Horror Movie anyone?

Viewing the visitor logs for your blog can make strange reading sometimes.  Three weeks ago I wrote a post about a project called BlogCode.  BlogCode was intended to help visitors to a blog find other similar blogs that they might enjoy.  One of the unintended consequences of BlogCode is that Read more…

Online Diaries?!?

I don’t want to come across all evangelical about blogs, but it is annoying to see the official Electoral Commission report on Election2005 refer to blogs as online diaries.  It will be very difficult to get politicians using blogging as an engagement tool if such influential bodies as the Electoral Read more…

Political Weblog Project

Last night I attended the first seminar given by Tim Ireland of the Political Weblog Project. These seminars aim to convince MPs and their staff of the benefit of producing a weblog.  In short.  MPs should have a weblog for the following reasons: Protect their online presence.  A weblog can Read more…

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