The Wardman Wire

Stage One complete: A success
The Tories are often, and unfairly sometimes, accused of having no policies. While they are thin on set in stone policies in many areas, it has often been very deliberate. The first stage in the Cameron plan was to “decontaminate” the brand – which he has been pretty successful at doing. [...]

Over the next few days the independent think tank Reform will be sharing our experiences of this year’s Conservative Party conference - keep your eyes on this blog!
Full details of all the fringe events we are hosting can be found at http://www.reform.co.uk/partyconferences.php

I have gently relaunched a blog aggregator project from last year:

Web: http://ww.toryblogs.org.uk

RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/conservative-comment/

This has been a crying need for around 2 years.

The detail:

The toryblogs.org.uk site aims to help you keep abreast of political comment by Conservative bloggers.

The aggregator only displays excerpts of posts, and does not take comments as the aim is to drive traffic to blogs rather than keep it on the aggregator.

Contact: email mattwardman AT gmail DOT com.

I’m seriously impressed. This something that I called for just over a month ago, and they have produced it.
However, I do have some criticisms:
To start with, there is no summary of the full amount that each MP has claimed from the taxpayer under expenses. This makes a real comparison harder, though I’m sure that there [...]

This is the third of a series articles commenting on the possible expansion of the Labour Blogosphere during 2007, following Mike Ion’s recent Comment is Free Column “Power Bloggers”.

This article looks at the development of party political “home” blogs using Technorati and Google data.

Image credit: Dorking Labs.

Iain Dale links to an article by Adam MacQueen, about John Bird’s approach to management:

Adam Macqueen used to work for me at Politico’s. He’s now a journalist on Private Eye but spent three years working for John Bird at The Big Issue.