http://www.poliblogs.co.uk/blog Recreating British Politics from the Bottom Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:05:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Browsershots.org offers a service which will display screenshots of how your website will appear in a wide range of different web browsers: What is Browsershots? Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web ... http://www.poliblogs.co.uk/blog/2008/11/test-your-site-in-80-different-web-browsers-browsershotsorg/ I'm trying out a new search facility on the Wardman Wire from a company called Lijit. The search facility uses the Google search results, but allows me to nominate a network of websites from which an alternative set of search results are selected - so the service incorporates features of social ... http://www.poliblogs.co.uk/blog/2008/11/testing-a-new-search-facility-comments-welcome/ I'm ready to be hoist by my own petard on this one, as it is an old story - but I haven't seen it reported anywhere: the Guardian has started publishing a sectional breakdown of its traffic figures. The Guardian has started breaking its web traffic figures down by the various ... http://www.poliblogs.co.uk/blog/2008/11/guardian-publishes-web-traffic-breakdown-by-section/ Offline blog editors are PC-based editors that allow blog posts to be written on a local PC and then uploaded as a separate operation. In conversation last night I was asked about the benefits. I put a list together, and I thought I would post it today. I've now done ... http://www.poliblogs.co.uk/blog/2008/10/why-i-use-an-offline-blog-editor-20-benefits/ I've posted a couple of times recently about the Slugger Awards, and the Slugger O Toole blog. Here's a nugget to chew on which throws some light on why Slugger is further integrated into the local political process than any other blog in the country: Slugger's penetration of it's local market ... http://www.poliblogs.co.uk/blog/2008/10/market-penetration-by-uk-political-blogs-slugger-rules-the-roost-blog-platform/ Following on from my article about changes to Wikio rankings, the update has now happened. The Wardman Wire is number 13 amongst UK Politics Blogs, and 26 amongst all UK Blogs - based on editorial links in from blogs monitored by Wikio over the previous 9 months. There is more detail in ... http://www.poliblogs.co.uk/blog/2008/10/wikio-rankings-updated/ I normally don't trust Alexa further than I can throw Ken Clarke with a toy catapult, but ... That is a big enough change to be worth a look. You can see the graph and other data here. I have some thoughts for tomorrow, but I'd be interested to hear other views ... http://www.poliblogs.co.uk/blog/2008/10/what-did-politics-home-get-right-at-the-end-of-september/ A real Friday post. The website bankaholic.com has been sold for $15m. From Paidcontent.org: Financial info site BankRate is expanding its financial product listings, as it’s acquiring Bankaholic, which provides info on deposits, savings accounts, and money market accounts. The company will pay $12.4 million up front, with another $2.5 million possible ... http://www.poliblogs.co.uk/blog/2008/10/bankaholiccom-blog-sold-for-15m/ Derek Draper is the leader of Labour's new rebuttal unit . I went looking for his blog and couldn't find it. Anyone who doesn't have a blog can't engage in conversation, and is likely to end up with a case of "Japanese students on bikes for the first time in ... http://www.poliblogs.co.uk/blog/2008/10/has-derek-draper-got-a-blog/ I'll keep this short, sweet and straightforward. Over the last 12 months the Wardman Wire blog audience has grown reasonably quickly by about 6-7 times, and I'm thinking where to take it over the next year. The actual numbers are open to dispute depending on how you count them; but the ... http://www.poliblogs.co.uk/blog/2008/09/wardman-wire-reader-survey-week/