Sep 24 2007
How many of Iain Dale’s blogs have you visited?
The lists from Iain Dale’s Guide to Political Blogging are out, and Iain has built himself a pair of asbestos underpants by having the lists compiled by blogger panels from the relevant constituency. At the very least that should ensure a wider knowledge of the totality of blogs.
I also think he’s made a good call by calling them “Left”, “Right” and “LibDem”.
I wonder what happens if two groups say a blog is one of theirs?
I will update this post with “Right of Centre” and “Non-aligned” numbers later this evening.
How widely read are you in blogs?
It is an interesting exercise to see how widely read you are in UK Political Blogs.
Try this:
Visit the LibDem List, or the Left of Centre List, and see how many of the links show up as “visited” - this will be since you last cleaned out your cache.
For me, it looks as if I have visited 40-50% of the Lib Dem blogs and 60-65% of the Left blogs in the last month or so.
Counting the Newcomers
The number of “new entrant” bloggers is 60 for “Left of Centre” and 39 for “Lib Dem” blogs - which is an interesting statistics.
I put that down to:
- Iain doing the list compilation himself last year, and not being so highly aware of non-prominent Left of Centre Bloggers as for Lib Dems.
- Perhaps a greater longevity of Lib Dem blogs.
- Sheer quantity difference permitting greater turnover. The are 133 blogs listed in libdemblogs.co.uk, compared to 586 in blogger4labour.org
And those Blasted Blog Buttons?
Will be available in 24-48 hours.