Gavin’s Gaily Gigest

Ryan Cullen, the genius behind LibDemBlogs, has launched a new website, LibDig.co.uk. Party members can vote for their favourite blog posts, news items, events or videos to recommend them for others who visit LibDig.
I am, of course, desperate for the traffic, so I’ve put the LibDig button on each post (if you’re on Wordpress, its [...]

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Some people might need to update their feed subscription to this site as I’ve pulled Feedburner due to compatibility issues with LibDemBlogs. You can resubscribe if you need to at my new feed address: www.gavinwhenman.com/feed/.

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The Liberal Democrat blog of the year awards nomination deadline closed a mere nineteen hours ago, and already the anticipation is killing me. Will I actually bother to give a shit this year, or will it be like every year: a single post acknowledging how badly I’ve done, and then move on?
Regardless, here are the [...]

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It’s still (just) the summer dry season so memes are still doing the rounds. I’ve been tagged by Shane Greer and Mike Rouse for this one, What were you doing when…?
Princess Diana’s death - 31 August 1997
Watching the Rugrats on Nickelodeon and a strap came up in the lower third of the screen saying “turn [...]

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Iain Dale has published his list of the Top 50 Lib Dem Blogs today, as voted for by the blogging public and, well:

You’re all a bunch of bastards.
Gracious loser my arse. Don’t you go thinking I’m going to forgive slipping from 24 down to 47. I know where you all live and I’m coming to [...]

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I feel so dirty - let’s get this out of the way quickly:
In early September Total Politics, in association with APCO Worldwide, will publish the 2008-09 Guide to Political Blogging in the UK. It will contain articles on blogging by some of Britain’s leading bloggers, together with a directory of UK political blogs, and a [...]

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I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a couple of weeks, but this blog comes to you as recommended by the New Statesman (once, briefly, about one item… dammit, don’t ruin this for me).
PS. Speaking of which, Paul Evans, who writes the New Statesman column,  used to blog rather well at Hot Ginger and [...]

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This blog is now set up for mobile browsing, thanks to this wonderful plug-in from Andy Moore. You can now read my random musings and pot-shots at anyone and everyone whilst on the go. Let joy be unconstrained!

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Uncovering the truly awful commercial uses of the blend, clone and other digital manipulation tools in Adobe Photoshop is the blog Photoshop Disasters. Their uncovering of Red Bull’s Hungarian advert caught my eye:

Red Bull gives you a bigger mouth as well as wings it would seem.

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This week the Britblog Roundup is hosted by Matt Wardman, who has very kindly linked to last week’s tasteless Politalks. If he thinks that’s bad, wait until this week’s is posted (hopefully later today).

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