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Lib Dem Voice had an interesting conversation under the title What should political bloggers be trying to achieve?, where Brian Coleman was used as an example of a search term that had been targeted by the Lib Dems in Google. This was the relevant bit of the conversation about Brian Coleman AM, the London Assembly Member for Barnet (the Lib Dems think he is a bit thin up top) and Camden.

The story is that Brian Coleman was the one who had a go at Lynne Featherstone for calling the Fire Brigade when her boiler made a funny noise, and the Lib Dems don’t like him as a result.

I thought I’d have a test on Google to see how we get on competing for a term such as “Brian Coleman” with the Liberal Democrat blogs on their top rated story for Brian Coleman: “Brian Coleman AM and his taxi bills”

(Click on the title to read the whole article)

Wardman Wire
Natalie Bennett, Philobiblon:
http://philobiblon.co.uk/
Cabalamat, Amused Cynicism:
http://cabalamat.wordpress.com/
Jonathan Calder, Liberal England:
http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/
Chameleon, Redemption Blues:
http://www.redemptionblues.com/
Mr Eugenides:
http://mreugenides.blogspot.com/
Jackart, A Very British Dude:
http://brackenworld.blogspot.com/
Susanne Lamido, Suz Blog:
http://susannelamido.blogspot.com/
Matt Wardman, The Wardman Wire:
http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/

A cartoon from Indexed.

There is one statistic that really hammers home how expensive the 10p U-turn is. About £2bn of the £2.7bn in compensation is going to those who had already won from the 2007 Budget. Officials insist this was the only simple and quick solution. But there was another way that was cheaper and more comprehensive.
Ian Mulheirn, [...]

A “friend of Brown” in the Times: “If we lose Crewe then I think a few of us will be telling him to think about quitting,” a former minister and friend of Mr Brown told The Times. An insider to The Times on why the mini budget now: “The political dynamic changed after the locals,” said one figure closely involved. Peter Riddell on the mini-budget: So the Treasury will have to raise a very large amount next year. This means either higher taxes or lower spending since higher borrowing cannot be continued. The public finances are not in a healthy…

Yesterday I had a look at Monitoring the Commentariat for free. Iain Dale has translated that as:

“Matt Wardman thinks he can put Editorial Intelligence out of business.”

Now there’s another challenge. In the spirit of enquiry and to encourage enterprise (!) I thought I’d do a quick minute rundown of Editorial Intelligence’s services and a few of their potential free competitors.

Yesterday I had a look at Monitoring the Commentariat for free. Iain Dale has translated that as:

“Matt Wardman thinks he can put Editorial Intelligence out of business.”

Now there’s another challenge. In the spirit of enquiry and to encourage enterprise (!) I thought I’d do a quick minute rundown of Editorial Intelligence’s services and a few of their potential free competitors.

Iain Dale understandably scoffs at Sunny Hundal for Hundal’s Pickled Politics post that, as Iain puts it: rails against two of Boris’s ethnic appointments because they are … whisper it, Conservatives, presumably betraying his steroetype that all ethnic minorities must…

One of the key benefits that came from the existence of 18 Doughty Street - whatever you thought of the overall balance (old bones that I am not interested in gnawing) - was the opportunity for political bloggers to talk and debate together, and to interact with the wider political blogosphere instantaneously.

This week we have a special “link blog” Senedd Circular, as Matt has been rounding up the daffodils earlier and Miss Wagstaff had a night on the tiles (allegedly). So this is a “Matt” roundup.