Apologies for the very light posting this week. Hopefully something approaching normal service will be resumed next week.
In the meantime, check out Matthew Taylor’s ‘Bloggers Circle‘ – if you have a site of your own, it’s well worth visiting it and joining. Here’s the drill:
- Receive an email at about lunchtime when blogposts have been submitted by members of the circle
- Once a week you can submit your best / most interesting blogpost to the circle
- If other members of the circle find your post interesting or provocative they will write about it
- In return, we ask you to write about a blog post promoted by another member of the circle twice a month
- At the end of the month, the blog post written about by the most members will receive the ‘blog of the month’ prize
- If you use Twitter, mark your post #bloggerscircle for profile on the homepage
What are you waiting for?
And if you don’t blog – really, try it. You may be pleasantly surprised….
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
It sounds like ‘design-your-own-clique’. Care to persuade me otherwise?
k
I’m keen on anything that breaks the monopsony supply of policy advice and anything that encourages people to blog or rewards good writing with traffic.
Sure – there’s bound to be a degree of mutual backscratching here, but that comes neatly under the slightly fashionable heading of collaborative filtering, doesn’t it?