Blogging the UK Election
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland goes to a general election on May 5 and bloggers are set to play an important role in covering the election campaign.
The BBC leads the way with The Election Monitor Blog, covering the campaign in detail including daily summaries of newspaper headlines, details of political advertising and reader feedback. Includes an RSS feed and the ability to comment (ed note: what the heck in BST? what happened to GMT?)
Channel 4 provides 8 different election “blogs”, including coverage from candidates, sitting MP’s and journalists. Note that there is no RSS, comments or other blog features, so their claim as blogs is a little stretched
2005 General Election Blog provides all over coverage
Conservativehome Blog is covering the election from the Tory perspective
Election blogs and forums provides a good list of blogs and forums covering the election
Bloggers 4 Labour cover the red side of things, as does Tory Trouble as does Tory Scum.
Election Watch looks promising, as does VoxPolitics and Politicalog.
A number of special interest blogs are also covering particular areas of the election, including the UK Polling report, naturally covering the various election polling, Postalvoting.blogspot.com covering the ongoing allegations of fraud with postal voting in the UK, and Backing Blair, which is seeking to oust UK Prime Minister Tony Blair whilst assuring that Labor remains in power.
Very impressive list, indeed …
Snippet from the google with a link: ‘This will be a blogging election: bloggers, already a political and media force in the US, will have real visibility in the UK for the first time.’
Digital politicking will put the snap into 2005 election
BST stands for British Summer Time. It’s one hour ahead of GMT and is sometimes referred to as Daylight Saving Time, a phrase well-known in the States, I believe.
Yes, many of us are blogging the UK election. If your readers would like a slightly sideways, wry look at the upcoming poll, they may like to look at my own blog: SYNTAGMA, found at synastry.blogspot.com.
My constituency, Sedgefield, has eleven candidates so far, but the BBC only mentions nine of them as I write.
So why do they get a mention and not me?
Huh?
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