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Iain has come out with a list of 75 top political books with links through to Amazon. This is probably the most widely use way of earning pocket money on UK Political Blogs. Nearly everybody does it - including me.

The way the Amazon affiliate programme works is that if a person purchases anything from the Amazon website within 24 hours of a click through on an affiliate link, then the affiliate receives between 4% and 10% of the purchase value.

Over at Poliblog Perspective I’ve put up a demonstration of the process that I go through when editing an article.

Using Sadie Smith’s new Westminster Watch report, I have posted “before” and “after” examples.

I have done the pair of articles as a tutorial demonstration for new people joining the blog, it may be of wider interest.

I have increased the number of articles on the RSS Feed to 20 from the present 12.
Why not subscribe if you don’t want to miss anything?
For anoraks and techies, this is so that I can put a longer list of “Recent Postings” in the sidebar to make articles 2-3 days old easier to find; the [...]

An enquiry arrived this morning:

How do I get a screenshot? I’ve tried to copy and paste the page, but it’s got video graphics on it so that won’t work. Is there a trick I need to know?

Fortunately “all you need to know” is not actually very much. So, the 15 second version:

I’m currently doing a little work with a couple of the columnists who have been coming on stream with the Wardman Wire in the current period, and I have started to create our editorial guidelines.
I’m therefore thinking about a number of questions around the nature of group blogs, and the process has raised some interesting [...]

[Update 2/1/2008: Matthew Somerville, who developed the BBC Homepage Archive service, comments:
"One caution: the archive updates run about a month behind the current date." - this isn't true, it was always up to the minute. It appears that the BBC simply stopped it running back in mid-November, I'm sorry to see that, perhaps linked to [...]