Sarah Teather

Moi? Well, JC thinks so. I’ll see if I can redeem myself over the next few days. Updates to follow… .. .

Blog for your MP Make your blog part of the solution, not part of the problem. This bit is important. Your already poking enough fun by running a blog on their behalf, riding google rankings and racking up page views when their site should be getting the traffic. And if you have some real deep-seated hatred for your MP, perhaps you ought to reconsider your motives for doing this. Part of the solution....

… and you shall receive. Tim, keep on keeping on. To: yeot@parliament.uk, timyeomp@parliament.uk Subject: Webloging by MPs Good morning Mr Yeo, You’re probably going to be reading a few of these messages today, so I thank you in advance for reading mine. Can I just say that, for what it’s worth, I don’t think Mr Tim Ireland has been a very helpful chap with regards to the e-government agenda he has been pushing....

Following on from the Hansard Society report into UK Political Weblogs (PDF report here), the Guardian keeps the spotlight on this area with this story, basically encouraging MPs to get blogging. There has been much said on this topic in blogsphere of late. And with good reason. So I’m not going to repeat it here. But I would like to highlight a few bits of the Guardian article. “Although the public might think otherwise, a lot of MPs do not have a great deal of money,” explains Ferguson....

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