Tuesday, August 11, 2009

A new discussion group for Lib Dem bloggers



Ryan Cullen - the man behind the invaluable LibDemBlogs aggregator - has set up an a href="http://lists.libdems.org.uk/wws/info/libdembloggers"email group for Liberal Democrat bloggers/a.br /br /There was a bit of a false start today as Ryan subscribed lots of people himself and there were some ructions - not unconnected with a href="http://liberalprovocateur.vox.com/library/post/ha-ha-ha-lib-dem-bloggers-in-technically-illiterate-shocker.html"this gentleman/a.br /br /Having gone off in a huff, I shall wait a couple of days and quietly resubscribe from my Gmail address. That will automatically sort the individual threads and may it more like a newsgroup where you can easily avoid topics that do not interest you.br /br /This discussion group, where people will be able to discuss technical, legal and other questions about blogging, is obviously a Good Thing. But are there other things that can be done to help nourish the Lib Dem blogosphere?br /br /Yesterday I entered some tentative doubts about how far the a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-liberal-democrat-voice-eating-lib.html"Blog of the Year Awards/a help, but maybe there is scope for a different event at Conference? One idea that attracts me is a blogging clinic where people can come along and ask advice or share ideas in person.br /br /It is obviously too late to do anything for this year, but perhaps another year?div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-723725364267756144?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div

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