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This is the full details of the 2007 Guide to UK Political Blogging by Iain Dale.

It should be a better balanced guide than the one written in a week in 2006, as there was input from (if I remember correctly) about 500 people.

As someone who proofread most of the book (and wrote a couple of articles) it is good to see that there are several articles I do not recognise. This could be because:

a) They were less punctual than the rest of us who made the deadline for articles (in my case by 4 hours).
b) The articles were good ideas that occurred to Iain late in the day, or offers that came in late.
c) It is a “cunning plan” to make sure that those of us who proofread the book still buy a copy.

Personally, I plump for option b).

What’s in the Book

The book will include the following elements:

- Articles by thirty bloggers and commentators
- Profiles of more than fifty leading blogs
- A directory of 1,200 political blogs
- The best 500 political blogs in the UK
- The best 100 Conservative, Labour and LibDem blogs.

The full contents list is reproduced from the Politicos website below.

The Full Contents List

Foreword
Darren Murphy, Managing Director, APCO UK

Introduction
Iain Dale

The top 500 political blogs in Britain
Iain Dale

The top 100 Conservative blogs
The top 100 Labour blogs
The top 100 Lib Dem blogs
The top 100 non-aligned blogs
The top 30 MP blogs
The top 60 media blogs
The top 30 councillor blogs

How the bloggers are making politics more challenging
Steve Richards

Why Blogging Matters
David King and Evan Kraus

Starting a Political Blog: Things to Think About
Matt Wardman

Under the Hood: Technical Notes
Matt Wardman

The American Political Blogosphere in 2007 and beyond
David Wescott

Blogging: what’s in it for political parties?
Mark Pack

Temps de Parole
Aude Athimon

Why MPs Should Blog!
Lynne Featherstone MP

Lefty blogs
David Osler

Local government blogs: muttering to ourselves?
Lee Rowley

The state of the left of centre blogosphere
Jon Worth

The state of the centre right blogosphere
Phil Hendren

The state of Lib Dem blogging in the UK
Stephen Tall

Political blogging: The space between debate and action
Gez Smith

Blogging A Dead Horse
Cllr Richard Booth

Women and blogging
Ellee Seymour

How to use humour in blogs and not come unstuck
Kerron Cross

Lasting the pace: why most blogs don’t make it
Liam Murray

Political podcasting
Jonathan Sheppard

My first year of blogging
Nich Starling

Mainstream Labour should do more blogging
Conor Ryan

The dangers of blogging
Rachel North

The State of the Welsh blogosphere
Ciaran Jenkins

The train leaving at Platform 10
Fiona Melville

The blogging candidate
Tracey Crouch

Shotgun blogging
Nadine Dorries MP

State of the Scottish Blogosphere
Grant Thoms

The British blogosphere is still teething
Helen Szamuely

Political Blogging Down Under
David Farrar

The State of Green blogging
Jim Jepps

Blogging in the Anglosphere
Donal Blaney

State of the Irish Blogosphere
Mick Fealty

Journalist bloggers: gamekeepers turned poachers?
Paul Linford

Free blogging can be expensive…
Phil Dilks

Glossary
Who’s who in political blogging
The directory of UK political blogs

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