Top 100 Labour bloggers
Iain Dale has listed his top 100 here - note, it’s a pdf. Yours truly (5) just scrapes past the beloved (6). Cheers Iain!
Iain notes:
I want to emphasise right from the beginning that this Top 100 and the rankings are my opinion and obviously opinions are subjective. But the list should at least generate a debate. I marked each blog out of ten on the following 10 areas: design; frequency of posting; writing ability; personality; comment; humour; range; interaction; popularity; independence of thought. This generated a mark out of 100.
The list is interesting: Jon Worth’s Euroblog is at 10, which I reckon is unexpected, but deserved for his rare position as a pro-European blogger. The most obvious omission is Let’s be sensible, which I rate highly.
I guess this is probably a good time to note that I’ll be blogging at least once for the New Statesman from party conference next week. I’ll post up a link as soon as I have it. In the meantime, if you’ve any ideas for what I should be blogging about - the brief is atmosphere, what delegates are discussing, feel and tone, rather than hard politics - please drop me a line.
Oh, and colleagues in NGO-world who are pressing their shirts and polishing their shoes to join the Lib Dems in Brighton this week - have fun. I’m so glad I don’t have to go there or to Bournemouth or to Blackpool this year.
I don’t know that http://www.labourhome.org should have got in above either of you.
I did not study the list too closely and didn’t notice Tom’s absence. Now I feel really bad about being on the foothills myself.
A pity the actual marks out of 100 are not there. It is possible that you and Jo have equal scores but are only ranked 5 and 6 alphabetically, which would surely be better for domestic harmony.
You’re too kind. Another notable omission is http://nevertrustahippy.blogspot.com/ - Paulie’s very good, and he’s been very critical of Iain Dale on a number of occasions.
No sign of the Virtual Stoa, either, which is probably a good thing.
I have to admit I have never heard of the Never Trust a Hippy blog. Tom’s omission is partly rectified by the fact I put him in the Non ALigned category by mistake. If he had been in the Labour category he would have been 45 instead of 72. I did actually ask people to nominate blogs for this, but no one nominated Never Trust a Hippy and it didn;t emerge in any of my laborious searches unfortunately.
I like what Skuds said
“Laborious searches”??
A quick look at the bloggers4labour sidebar would have turned up Never trust a hippy.
Iain Dale may not have heard of Never Trust A Hippy, but he has previously left a comment on it. See http://nevertrustahippy.blogspot.com/2006/07/whatta-guy.html
well done 5 & 6.
from chuffed to be included at 73…!
Shucks guys. Thanks.
*blush*
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Ermmm, I know Iain thinks I don’t like him, hence his snotty comments on my blog, but why do we care what a preening Tory failure who wants to reinvent himself as a commentator actually thinks?
Ego, mainly, Gareth
Although the purpose of putting a link log to all of the top 100 Labour bloggers was to make it easy to get to ones I hadn’t visited before, and hopefully to increase traffic to Labour blogs as a whole.
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