The Wardman Wire

Hopefully to everyone - since this article is to introduce a whole new set of political websites and RSS Feeds that I have been working on since before Christmas.

I have also added them all as a toolbar to all the sites.

The most significant additions are websites and RSS feeds for blogging members from:

• The Westminster Parliament
• The Welsh Assembly
• The Scottish Parliament
• The European Parliament

As far as I am aware, these feeds are not available from elsewhere - at least with such memorable addresses (see below).

Niche Blog Aggregators

I’ve been developing niche aggregators since last year, and I’ve now added a toolbar to a number of sites above. I explained my ethos in full here. Briefly, I only use the Excerpt from each article and link directly to the sites concerned - to drive traffic to each blogger’s website rather than keep visitors on the aggregator, and build a combined RSS feed from each website.

List of Websites

Here’s the full list of websites included in the toolbar above.

• The Wardman Wire - Matt Wardman on Politics, News and Culture
• Poliblog Perspective - The Nuts and Bolts of Political Blogging
• Daily Roundup by Matt Wardman - Matt Wardman’s Daily Roundup of News and Comment in the British Media
• English Political Comment Aggregated - Political Comment from English Bloggers
• Euro Political Comment Aggregated - Political Comment from Euro Bloggers
• Irish Political Comment Aggregated - Political Comment from Irish Bloggers
• Scottish Political Comment Aggregated - Political Comment from Scottish Bloggers
• Welsh Political Comment Aggregated - Political Comment from Welsh Bloggers
• Comment from Westminster MPs Aggregated - Comment from Westminster MPs
• Comment from Senedd AMs Aggregated - Comment from Senedd Ams
• Comment from Holyrood MSPs Aggregated - Comment from Holyrood MSPs
• Comment from Brussels MEPs Aggregated - Comment from Brussels MEPs

Feed Addresses

This is a full list of the 12 feed addresses.

• http://feeds.feedburner.com/mattwardman
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/poliblogperspective
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/dailyroundup
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/politics-england
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/politics-europe
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/politics-ireland
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/politics-scotland
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/politics-wales
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/uk-parliament
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/senedd
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/holyrood
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/europarl

OPML File

You can get it as an opml file here. This was exported from Feeddemon, so it should be compatible with most RSS readers.

Put me in / Take me out

Email “mattwardman [at] gmail [dot] com”, and I will consider adding you to the relevant aggregator. The only tricky one will be the English Aggregator, as there are a large number of English Political blogs.

If you want your personal blog removed from any aggregator, then I will do so without question for private individuals. I will need more persuasion to remove Elected Officers, as I think inclusion is a matter of public interest; I also struggle with the concept of any Member of Parliament wanting less publicity.

I may also get slightly grumpy with anyone who calls a stream of weekly press releases a “blog” !

Wrapping Up

If you know of any Members of Assemblies or Parliaments who I have missed, please drop me an email and I will add them. Please also do so with any bugs you discover.

I have not developed a site for the Stormont Assembly, as I do not know of any members there who maintain blogs.

There’s some tuning to do with these sites on content, but they should be quite stable.

I hope they are useful - especially in saving some time for bloggers keeping up to date.

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