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Email your ten favourite blogs (ranked from 1-10) to toptenblogs@totalpolitics.com
It's that time of year again, when Total Politics asks you to vote for your Top 10 favourite blogs. The votes will be compiled and included in the forthcoming book, the Total Politics Guide to Blogging 2009-10, which will be published in September. This year the poll is being promoted/sponsored by LabourList and LibDemVoice as well as our publisher Iain Dale's blog.
The rules are simple.
1. You must vote for your ten favourite blogs and ranks them from 1 (your favourite) to 10 (your tenth favourite).
2. Your votes must be ranked from 1 to 10. Any votes which do not have rankings will not be counted.
3. You MUST include ten blogs. If you include fewer than ten your vote will not count.
2. Email your vote to toptenblogs@totalpolitics.com
3. Only vote once.
4. Only blogs based in the UK, run by UK residents are eligible or based on UK politics are eligible.
5. Anonymous votes left in the comments will not count. You must give a name
6. All votes must be received by midnight on 31 July 2009. Any votes received after that date will not count.
If you have your own blog, please do encourage your readers to take part. Last year, more than 80 blogs did so. We hope this year it will be far more than that. BUT, DO NOT list ten blogs you think your readers should vote for. Any duplicate voting of this nature will be disallowed. If you do not wish for your blog to be voted for please email katy.scholes@totalpolitics.com. You will see a list of the blogs who have chosen not to be included in the comments shortly.
There are many ways of measuring a blog's popularity. Wikio and Technorati have complicated logarithms which measure the importance of incoming links and traffic. Google Analytics does it by measuring how many people visit. But our poll gives blog readers the opportunity to vote for the ones they like and visit most often. It's not scientific. It's impossible to achieve 100% balance and we don't pretend it's perfect.
The results of the poll will be published in the forthcoming book the TOTAL POLITICS GUIDE TO POLITICAL BLOGGING IN THE UK which will be published in mid September in association with APCO Worldwide.
So, go to it. Email us your Top Ten Favourite Blogs
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Paperhouse
Bloggerheads
James Cousins
Anton Vowl
Davorg
Beau Bo D'or
Sim-o
Liberal Burblings
Chicken Yoghurt
Subrosa
Five Chinese Crackers
Liberal Conspiracy
Pickled Politics
They will, however, be included in the directory part of the book.
2. Iain Dale's Diary
3. Spectator Coffeehouse
4. Conservativehome
5. Guido Fawkes
6. Denverstrope
7. Plato Says
8. Constantly Furious
9. Tory Bear
10. John Redwood
I would put my own site down but I'll leave that to my three loyal readers!
But you seem to want to forestall such criticisms. "It's not scientific" you state (with either chutzpah or embarrassment, I can't tell). And your 'logarithm' isn't perfect? Too right! Jeez, I hope you hire someone who understands the different between an algorithm and a logarithm before you publish the results. Maybe even publish the algorithm? (Or the logarithm, your choice.)
One more thing: I was hoping to vote by listing the URLs of the blogs - will these get registered? Will you let me know if my vote was valid? (I won't vote, by the way, unless you relax the 10 blog rule.)
Mrs Dale
Coffee House
Guido
Dizzy Thinks
Letters From a Tory
Obo The Clown
The Ranting Penguin
Bastard Old Holborn
Lobbydog
OBO THE CLOWN - obotheclown.blogspot.com
THE RANTING PENGUIN - therantingkingpenguin.blogspot.com
LIBERAL GUY - mliberalguy.blogspot.com
BLANEY'S BLARNEY -donalblaney.blogspot.com/
GATES OF VIENNA - gatesofvienna.blogspot.com
UNSPOKEN EARTH - unspokenearth.blogspot.com
THE LONE VOICE - newportcity.blogspot.com
OLD HOLBORN - bastardoldholborn.blogspot.com
CONSERVATIVE HOME - conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/
2.Tory Bear
3.Order Order
4.Blaney Blarny
5.Shane Greer
6.Con Home
7.Dan Hannan
8.Alastair Campbell
9.Dizzy Thinks
10.Benjamin gray
2: Counting Cats in Zanzibar
3: Obnoxio the Clown
4: The Devil's Kitchen
5: The FatBigot Opines
6: A Very British Dude
7: Burning Our Money
8: Raedwald
9: The Last Ditch
10: Prodicus
Cyprus July of 1974 URGENT: to the unions of R.A.F. discharged officers
http://ellhnkaichaos.blogspot.com/2009/07/cyprus-july-of-1974.html
http://bellum-mentalis.blogspot.com/
Or if you like Mebyon Kernow Party Leader Dick Cole's blog: http://mebyonkernow.blogspot.com/
1.Johan Norberg
2.Benjamin Gray
3.Con Home
4.Letters From a Tory
5.Burning Our Money
6.Shane Greer
7.Dan Hannan
8.John Redwood
9.Conservativehome
2.Shanghai 7 http://shanghai7.livejournal.com
3.Mark Wadsworth http://markwadsworth.livejournal.com
4.Matt Wardman http://www.mattwardman.com
5.Landed Underclass
6.Jack Riley
7.Thunderdragon
8.Political Betting
9.Joe Slavko
10. (Una)musing
2. Slugger O'Toole
3. Political Betting
4. Iain Dale
5. Tory Bear
6. Conservativehome
7. O'Connall Street
8. Scottish Unionist
9. Tory Story
10.Our Kingdom
2. Tory Rascal (http://www.toryrascal.com/)
3. Tory Bear (http://www.torybear.com/)
4. Shane Greer (http://www.shanegreer.com/)
5. Gift of the fab (http://giftofthefab.blogspot.com/)
6 James Delingpole (http://jamesdelingpole.com/)
7. Jo Swinson (http://www.joswinson.org.uk/)
8. Tim Phillips-white (http://timphillips-white.blogspot.com/)
9. Craig Elder (http://craigelder.co.uk/)
10 Tom Watson MP (http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/)
However, if you count below number 3, then your results would be scewed.I don't read them but as I wanted to vote for Tom Harris, Tory Rascal and Tory bear, then I had to get 7 more! And these are not blind votes, as I follow them on twitter...
Yes, OK then. I remembered to forget.
2 Ian Dale
3 Dizzy thinks
4 Paul Waugh
5 Political Betting
6 John Redwood
7 Boulton & Co
8 Michael Crick
9 The Croydonian
10 Tom Harris MP
1. go fourth
got more meat on it than 10 normal bloody blogs put together
2. Iain Dale's Diary
3. Spectator Coffee house
4. Guido Fawkes
5. Benedict Brogan : Telegraph Blogs
6. Paul Waugh: Evening Standard Blog
7. UK Polling Report
8. Lords of the Blog
9. Frank Field
10. Defence of the Realm
I wasn't sure whether you felt, in your heart of hearts, that this practice would be entirely fair
At least, I waited till the day after the polls closed, so to speak, before voicing these reservations. So, I can at least line up alongside the innocent
Trevor Malcolm
Portsmouth, Hampshire
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