In a recent arbitrary time period, a number of people visited this blog. Some people just visited once, others did it repeatedly. Some followed links from elsewhere, including Google searches, others either have it bookmarked or typed in the address themselves. Certain posts were more popular than others.
Am I meant to repeat this statement on the first day of every month, or is that only if I feel the need to do some willy-waving and put actual figures in there?
May 24
Oops. Just discovered today that I’d forgotten to put in the automated notices of Castle NAP meetings for the rest of the year, but I have now rectified that, and there should be an automated announcement for each of the rest of this year’s meetings around a week before they happen.
May 14
So as soon as the election was over, my post a day routine disappeared into the ether as I got down to catching up with other work. I will try and post my thoughts on the coalition deal before I head off to Birmingham this weekend for the Special Conference about it, but before that, as bit of news.
Since February, I’ve been a member of Colchester Borough Council’s Cabinet with responsibility for Business and Tourism and I’ve been asked to stay on for the next year – subject to agreement by Council at the meeting next Wednesday (19th May) – with an expanded portfolio, now known as Economic Development, Culture and Tourism which includes all that was I doing before as well as adding in cultural services including museums, heritage, the Mercury Theatre and the Arts Centre. So I’ve got a lot of meetings over the next week as I get used to the new role, but it should make for an interesting year. Developing the local economy and increasing the number of jobs in Colchester – especially high-skilled and well-paid jobs – is a priority for this administration and the cultural and tourist sectors are major contributors to the local economy.
Sep 26
I think I’ve just successfully installed a mobile version of the blog, so you can now read it from miniature work avoidance device without too much kerfuffle. Please let me know if it causes any problems or just doesn’t work.
While everyone else heads off to Conference, I’m heading north for a few days, to hopefully get to spend some time in the Lake District when it doesn’t feel like a holy tome’s worth of rain is falling around me. There are a few posts cued up for when I’m gone to keep you happy, but I’m sure you’ll all be too busy in Bournemouth to care.
Sep 6
Yes, I’m back from my holiday and didn’t evolve any gills to deal with the regular deluges that covered Cumbria during my time there. It seems that, in my absence, I was somehow voted the 73rd best Lib Dem blog, which isn’t bad considering that for most of the year it covered, one post per month felt like a ridiculously high level of output.
Anyway, automatic posts are now over, we’re back to fresh drivel delivered to you with no delay. Some interesting comments while I was away, which I will respond to tomorrow.
Off to the Lake District for a week, so no fresh blogging until I get back next week. I have scheduled a few posts to appear during the week, just to keep my new posting schedule up, but if you want to know what I’m doing for the next few days you’ll have to follow me on Twitter, where hopefully I won’t be posting ‘raining again’ too much.
Aug 26
A couple of people have told me recently that they’ve had trouble commenting here, so I’ve been tinkering around in the back of the blog and got rid of the word verification part of commenting, which should hopefully make it easier. If you still can’t comment, then let me know (email or Twitter should work if comments don’t).
Aug 14
Having just got back into the habit of regular blogging, I’ve been rediscovering the habits that go along with it such as the occasional perusing of my Sitemeter pages (and I’m still Old Skool enough to be using them, not your newfangled Google Analytics or whatever) and noticed this afternoon that I was getting some incoming visits from Harry’s Place, which was doing a ‘Where Are They Now?’ look at some of the former denizens of their blogroll.
It was interesting to look back on those days when the small number of British political bloggers all seemed to know each other and others had yet to find their way to Blogspot. Indeed, back in those days, Iain Dale wasn’t yet a failed Tory candidate, let alone the Tory uberblogger.
Anyway, that post prompted me to take a look at what the Web Archive snapshot of this place said for June 2003 and when I wasn’t talking about the experience of Wolves being in the Premiership, I was asking the important question:
So, what comes next? I can already hear the first distant shouts of ‘we must use the power of the blog’ sparking up, but what communications methodology is next to be misinterpreted after that?
In the week where Gordon Brown Twittering is the main story on the news, maybe I don’t need to write any new posts, just recycle some old ones.
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Sep 21
Posted by Nick in Site announcements | Comments off
Following some attempted spam-trolling while I was at the weekend, it seems that it’s time for me to state my comments policy here. IIRC, I’ve never had to do this before, but it only takes one person to spoil the fun. So here are the commenting rules:
Don’t be an arsehole.
That’s it. The definition of ‘being an arsehole’ is obviously up to me, but if you find yourself asking the question ‘am I being an arsehole?’ then you probably are.
We now return you to your regular blogging, or stay for a bit of comedy if you prefer:
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