Posts Tagged “blogging”
Small-scale blogs to be excluded from post-Leveson media regulation
by Stephen Tall on April 20, 2013
A week ago I posed (and answered) the question, After Leveson: which blogs are to be regulated? Answer: no-one yet knows. Well, we do now know. The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) yesterday announced a ‘refinement’ of the Leveson legislation included within the Crime and Courts Bill. And it confirms that small-blogs are [...]
After Leveson: which blogs are to be regulated? Answer: no-one yet knows.
by Stephen Tall on April 13, 2013
I was one of those invited to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) this week for what was termed a ‘Small scale blogger stakeholder discussion’. A quick reprise of why: As I posted here three weeks ago, concerns about the legislation are widespread and include both those who are pro-Leveson and anti-Leveson. Civil [...]
Why I still <3 blogging > Twitter
by Stephen Tall on October 3, 2012
This post isn’t even meta. It’s meta-meta. Meta2, if you will. It’s about bloggers blogging about blogging. And in case that’s not niche enough for you, it starts off about Lib Dem bloggers blogging about Lib Dem blogging. On the (…)
What I said at the Lib Dem Blog of the Year awards
by Stephen Tall on September 23, 2012
Last night witnessed the seventh annual Lib Dem Blog of the Year awards. You can find out all about the nominees and winners here. Particular congrats to Mark Thompson, winner of the overall Best Blog prize. It was my great (…)
A warm welcome for Andrew Marr’s change of heart on blogging
by Stephen Tall on May 24, 2012
Here’s the BBC’s Andrew Marr speaking in October 2010: “Most citizen journalism strikes me as nothing to do with journalism at all. A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed, young men sitting in their mother’s basements and ranting. They are very angry people. … Most of the [...]
Andrew Marr: a little bit of a hypocrite
by Stephen Tall on October 11, 2010
I’m intrigued by Andrew Marr’s recent attack on blogging. For those who’ve missed his comments, here’s what he told an audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, as reported in the Telegraph: “Most citizen journalism strikes me as nothing to do with journalism at all. A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, [...]
LibDemVoice.org ‘Blog of the Year Awards 2010′ – Listen Again
by Stephen Tall on September 19, 2010
Saturday night witnessed the starriest of Lib Dem fringe occasions: the Blog of the Year awards. Ah, it takes me back. Four years ago, I won the inaugural prize. It was the last time I was eligible to win it (…)
Total Politics Top 75 Lib Dem blogs list published
by Stephen Tall on September 6, 2010
It’s two months since Total Politics asked blog-readers to vote for their Top 10 favourite blogs in their annual survey promoted here on LDV, as well as at LabourList and Iain Dale’s Diary. More than 2,200 people voted, and here is the full list of the Top 75 Lib Dem blogs according to the voters [...]
LDV weekend meme: what is the state of the Lib Dem blogosphere?
by Stephen Tall on July 18, 2010
When Iain Dale asked if Lib Dem Voice would once again co-sponsor Total Politics’ Best Blog Poll 2010, he also set me some homework: to write c.1,500 words on ‘the State of the LibDem blogosphere’ by the end of the month. As you will see from the date, my deadline is fast approaching. I’ve got [...]
The most popular blogs with LDV readers
by Stephen Tall on February 20, 2010
We published the results of our most recent survey of Lib Dem Voice’s 1,000-strong private members’ discussion forum – open to any party member to join – last week: you can catch up with what Lib Dem members thought about a variety of issues by clicking here.
In addition to the policy and party issues raised, [...]
