Slugger Awards: Best Political Blog 2009…
It’s our view that the real nexus of political debate is moving inexorably online. In the US and the UK, the line between what’s become known as the commentariat and the bloggertariat is rapidly blurring. We hope our political blogger of the year Award will play a role in identifying (and encouraging) the next generation of big political commentators.Anyone who blogs consistently on Northern Irish politics is eligible: ie they do not have to be based in or be writing exclusively about Northern Ireland. But we are looking for seriousness and purpose. And for blogs that bring consistent quality and impact on the public debate.
In making your nominations, please try to include:
1. The name and the url of the blog.
2. A link to a sample post along with a short extract demonstrating its best qualities.
3. A short pitch on why you believe it is the best political blog of the year.
Be as expansive as you wish, so we can make the best pitch possible to both the reader and judges panels who may not be as familiar as you with your favoured site.
Please note, Slugger is excluded from this category.
Brilliant ISMAR… Daithi definitely deserves to be up there on his own merit… And if there are new names here, all to the good.
There’s some great reading material, but please keep them coming, even if they are very new blogs we want to hear about future stars. Remember give us some samples and above all reasons…
Conall McDevitt for articulating a new nationalism and being strong on the issues as well as the heavy politics. He also comes up with some lovely angles.
http://oconallstreet.com/2009/10/05/the-stormont-generation-gap/
http://oconallstreet.com/2009/09/23/six-opportunities-for-new-sdlp-leader/
http://oconallstreet.com/2009/09/18/the-stormont-prisoners’-dilemma/
http://oconallstreet.com/2009/10/30/squeeze-squeeze-squeeze/
That East Belfast SDLP thingy is terrible (at least the link presented here was broken, I had to google it). School yard bullying of a young kid at it’s very worst. What gobshite produced that?
@Mack – the “East Belfast SDLP thingy” at http://www.eastbelfastsdlp.blogspot.com was shut down and reappeared a few weeks later at http://eastbelfastupdate.blogspot.com/. The WordPress blog I suspect you stumbled over is some kind of sick spoof.
I’d like to nominare 3 thousand versts
http://threethousandversts.blogspot.com/
- Consistently interesting
- Regularly updated
- Unique international perspectives
- Relentlessly challenging of DUP double-speak, double-jobbing, double-facedness
alan in belfast – a great blog, who mixes his blog well with twitter. His enthusiasm for all things techie is more than clear but his real engagement on politics in a genuinely non partisan way is really heartening in the blogesphere that is becoming increasingly cluttered with advertorial linked corporate blogs. Here’s to the enthusiastic amateur, long may they hold the line against the commercialisation of blogs.
Less than 24 hours before the polls close. If there is someone missing from the list here, now is the time to get your late nominations in. Remember we NEED good reasons, not just good names!!
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