The American Weblog Awards are, apparently, a big deal. This year they have a Best UK Blog category, in which this blog features. You can cast your vote for your favourite blog
HERE. The result which be announced, I imagine, at the Blog & New Media Convention in Las Vegas next week. Bizarrely, they allow you to vote once every 24 hours. I didn't realise the vote was being run from Florida...
guy fawkes or guido fawkes?
ReplyDeleteI voted for Iain.
I would like to vote for my least favourite blog which used to be one of my most favourite ones.
ReplyDeleteThe top of my list for most dangerous most censorious and disingenuous blog of all time gos to Bias BBC. With no others in site, not even HYS is quite as bad as Bias BBC.
Over the last year it has been impossible for me to have any comment published at all. Not even nice or nice and short ones.
While the same sort of people go on and on making the same long winded points over and over again missing the real point of it all completely.
They have it seems to me gone over to the other side or were set up by the BBC to divert attention in the first place.
The way that blog is run now is confusing to say the least.
Because I am THE most critical commenter on the BBC in LIVING memory.
They just cant get their heads round the self evident and well documented fact that the BBC is and has always been a FASCIST corporate masonic organization from the very first day it started.
(The whole management structure of the BBC is such a tall pyramid with such a sharp tip on the end. No one at the BBC even knows who the bugger is really running the place. The BBC staff are so brainwashed some of them are stupid enough to believe it is them)
Or maybe they do, they just cant handle me telling anyone so.
And I do very much wonder why.
Not this one, given the dismal anti-police tone it has adopted, with the worst sort of political attack on a senior police officer.
ReplyDeleteThe real story behind the De Menenzes shooting is the appallingly misconceived and stupid "health and safety" prosecution. What the heck does "health and safety" have to do with protecting the public from suicide bombers.
I sincerely hope that David Davis is one day confronted by a terrorist. At that point, whilst he is busy wetting himself, his first thought will be to call the police. Who regrettably, due to public political assualts and a shabby half-baked and New-Labour lawyer inspired (Cherie and Tony's pals in the bar), will be busy at the station avoiding contact with the public, especially given that half the Met will have left the job. And quite right too.
Of the five from the ten I've visited, yours and mine are the only ones not asking people to vote for them [but possibly think it might be a good idea]. :)
ReplyDeleteYou're currently number one it seems. Not to jinx it but good luck Iain!
ReplyDeleteNow I wonder who's leading?????
ReplyDeleteI just voted for Guido
ReplyDelete... and in the early lead, coming up to the first fence, is Iain Dale, with EUReferendum and the Devil on his heels ....
ReplyDeleteNever heard of some of the others though.
Alan Douglas
This is a joke poll, isn't it? Why have they picked on these blogs?
ReplyDeleteIain Dale - OK, he gets a lot of traffic.
Guy Fawkes - do they mean Guido Fawkes? Yes, he gets a lot of traffic too but most is by the same bloke.
Neil Clark - who?
EUReferendumn- Yes, I want one but who is he?
Pub Philosopher - WHAT? Never heard of him.
The Devil's Kitchen - Apart from the "The" they've got it right and he can be quite thoughtful if a little too sweary.
Baggage Reclaim - totally obscure!
Nourishing Obscurity - even more obscure.
Bright Meadow - ditto.
Kickette - ditto.
Sorry Iain but I'm not voting for you to go Las Vegas. I'll be voting for Chris Paul (or the Manchester Munchkin, as he is known) in the "Most Pointless Blog of All Time" category.
Of course the blog that outstrips everything in the UK by a huge margin is Politicalbetting. 1.56 million page downloads in October alone. Three times the Iain Dale total and two and a half time ConHome.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous November 02, 2007 7:14 PM said
ReplyDelete".......... What the heck does "health and safety" have to do with protecting the public from suicide bombers........"
The Court's criticism was directed at the Met's management system not the unfortunate coppers on the ground. As a Londoner I feel my safety would be much improved by sorting out the muddles in those systems. It is when issues like that are addressed by a Court or a public enquiry that some organizations can be pushed into improving. It'd sad that the Met had become one of them. I've never doubted the dedication of the policemen up the sharp end. But they have to work within a system and, from the evidence given in Court, it looks as if they deserve better. So do we.
"I don't belieeevve it!"
ReplyDeleteDid you pay them to nobble Guido by quoting his name as Guy Fawkes ?
Well, if so it has worked, as you are ahead ! Will you be going to Vegas to collect the award ?
Great blog Iain but my faves are not there - Boris Johnson's and Newmania's would be top of my list.
ReplyDeleteNo Dizzy tut tut
ReplyDeleteSome of these are really weird. How did they arrive at this shortlist?
ReplyDeleteWhere's Dizzy, Cranmer, Burning our Money, or Croydonian?
Who the *!*?k's Kickette and Bright Meadow? This list has nothing to do with quality, so 'best' can't come into it!!
I voted for Ian too - but why these awards. How can you equate blog for blog they all so different and so unique.
ReplyDeleteI find my self getting bored with the political ones - it’s the same old story, slightly revamped all the time. I find myself drawn more to the ones that raise personal /society issues in an amusing and endearing way. May be
politics could take note.
I voted for Iain, but I'm not voting for him today because this blog has become an immobile lump. Nothing changes for 10 or 12 hours. Chance of engaging with fellow posters thus disappears as when Iain finally approves some comments, everything comes through in one huge wadge of disconnected thoughts because people can't respond to one another.
ReplyDeleteAll the spontaniety and liveliness has gone and we just get a turgid wadge of disconnected comment.
Plus I'm sick of having to type in the code letters two or three times every time I post.
I am voting for Devil's Kitchen today.
I agree - other than Devil's Kitchen, Guido and EU Referendum, where did the get the names of the other contestants from?
Who selected them? Should be the most obscure UK blog. Apart from the top 3.
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ReplyDeleteI voted for Iain, but I'm not voting for him today because this blog has become an immobile lump..
It would be better if Iain were to do what Guido does, i.e. switch off the moderation but quickly delete any comments he doesn't like.
Aardvark - I hadn't realised Iain had suffered a loss.
ReplyDeleteThanks for bringing my attention to the ace 'Kickette' site ! It is very educational ! I almost learnt who 'Alex Curran' was...
ReplyDeleteatlas shrugged, leaving aside your poor spelling, grammar and attention to detail (it's Biased BBC you're trying to attack), is it any wonder that someone like you who goes on and on and on and on spouting nutty conspiracy theories (e.g. giant machines that control the climate to manipulate the masses, secret transnational cliques that run the world, etc. etc.), is unwelcome on a serious topic-specific blog? If you have so much to say then set up your own blog and indulge in free speech to your heart's content in your own space rather than someone else's space. Pillock.
ReplyDeleteI am not even going to visit the Kickette site out of curiosity because I don't want to boost this poseur's number.
ReplyDeleteKickette's in the lead. Great blog too.
ReplyDeleteFor god's sake Dale, just ask people to vote for you!
ReplyDeleteIain - this is a con website tempting people to claim a free laptop computer. Don't be fooled!
ReplyDeleteJust seen the comment on Orovicius's site from Kickette awarding him the free laptop and a time-share slot in Florida. Perhaps it is genuine?
ReplyDeleteIain, your self-promotion is nauseating.
ReplyDeleteVote for me, vote for me!
*Barf*
I must say I agree with Verity I prefer a little more immediacy but Iain`s Blog does attract the best quality of comment to respond to...( I `m talking about me here of course)
ReplyDeleteGet your moderation off Iain .Let the dog see the rabbit !
Oh I would just like to mention that Theo Spark is a magnificent blog and a fine human being ...................( Done my header yet..?)
ReplyDeleteOK Iain I voted for you again. I forgot over the weekend. I'm sorry OK? EU Ref Blog has pulled ahead.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite blog is the Iain Dale's diary blog.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
Gary
Iain, your self-promotion is nauseating.
ReplyDeleteVote for me, vote for me!
*Barf*
Not as nauseating as Neil Clark, who's blogged about literally nothing else for the last few days.
Mind you, he's in the lead - though God alone knows why, since his blog consists almost entirely of paeans of praise to Slobodan Milosevic interspersed with nostalgic reflections on 1970s sitcoms.
Diablo - I hadn't heard of you either but it doesn't mean your blog is no good.
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