Well, it’s exactly three years since I started blogging. On Typepad that’s exactly 1900 posts, bringing in 2378 comments and 195,747 visitors (sitemeter gives me 25,000 less for some reason.) I love you all.
And for this my bloggiversary post I’d like to feature Mr Matthew Taylor, formerly the Prime Minister’s Chief Strategy Adviser, now off to screw up some fine public institution or other.
"What is the big breakthrough, in terms of politics, on the web in the last few years? It's basically blogs which are, generally speaking, hostile and, generally speaking, basically see their job as every day exposing how venal, stupid, mendacious politicians are."The internet is being used as a tool of mobilisation, which is fantastic, but it only adds to the growing, incommensurate nature of the demands being made on government."
He challenged the online community to provide more opportunities for "people to try to understand the real trade-offs that politicians face and the real dilemmas that citizens face".
He also said that the public in general were “teenagers”. Funny that. It seems to me that it’s teenagers who think it’s just not fair and that nobody likes me and that you just don’t understand what I’m going through.
I don’t think that blogs are very influential anyway, and political blogs are only a small subset of general blogging. It couldn’t be that these sad, sad people are vanity googling themselves in the expectation of glowing reviews of their latest schemes for Moderate Progress, could it? Or having some prehensile flunky do it for them?
How their little faces must fall. Makes it seem all worthwhile.
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