Fair play to Iain, he managed to get over 2,200 people voting in his poll for the top Northern Irish blogs this year… We (just, I imagine) retained our top spot, with Splintered coming straight in at number 2, no doubt his pet subject du jour will have garnered him a lot of fans…
I’ve given him a bit of mention in my review of the Irish blogosphere for 2010, which for now you’ll have to buy the book to read it… Also worth mentioning is Ulster’s Doomed which due to the sad loss of it’s passionate author is no longer active… and Lee’s Ultonia blog, which for my money is currently on fire…
Still, even allowing for a GB and centre right bias in the online readership of Iain’s blog and Total Politics, it confirms that with the exception of Splintered, and O’Conall Street most of the top and most active NI blogs are currently coming from the Unionist sector…
And there’s a good spread from the urbane conversational style of Lord Belmont to the prolific and often controversial Tangled Web… So, Nationalist bloggers, it must be time to get your collective fingers out…
Mick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Twitter: @MickFealty
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