Thanks for those.

Dan

May I take this opportunity to plug my other website, Includipedia (an inclusionist fork of Wikipedia) for one moment?

If you are a “girl political blogger” (or any other sort of blogger) and wish to promote your blog, why not create an entry for it on Includipedia — for example here’s the entry for Amused Cynicism, and here’s the entry for Liberal Conspiracy. When you do so, you’ll want to include a link back to your own blog (which will improve it’s Google ranking).

I’m also surprised that Amused Cynicism isn’t categorized as political. I regard it as mostly political, and most of what I write about is either explicitly political or has a political dimension. Though I don’t limit myself in what I cover — it’s my soapbox and I’ll continue to write about whatever interests me.

So Dan, if you’re reading this, I suggest you re-categorise Amused Cynicism as political. (Actually if I was running Wikio I’d allow a blog to have more than one category; that would be more in line with reality than trying to shoebox every blog into just one category).

Fantastic.

He’s been very lovely, even though I was horribly grumpy at him, and that sort of thing is appreciated in this house.

Yes Matt, that is exactly what we want. We openly solicit the expertise of bloggers. Ordovicius was kind enough to supply me with a collection of Welsh blogs for example, and some of them we hadn’t yet indexed.

And we of course want to be told of such classification issues, as I said above. The classification is often done automatically; we have over 60,000 sites in our index. We absolutely and totally want your help: you are the experts.

Dan

Trust me, if I insult you, you’ll know about it.

There is no double standard. We’d just largely to this point (for the practical reasons related to the ranking only, not in order to define the word or make any kind of statement) tended to consider politics as electoral politics.

There are so many political blogs in the UK it’s untrue. More than any other type of blog… way more. As you can see our overall Top 20 is 80% ‘Politics’ blogs already.

I said I thought Jennie was right – that to centre it around electoral politics was incorrect (even though as Jennie recognises, we are running out of big blogs that aren’t classified as Politics or Tech blogs!!) – so ‘obnoxious monkey’ seems an unfair comparison.

Dan

I see that that has already been addressed. Thanks, Dan.

I still think that it would be good for someone to make sure that Wikio has complete coverage of this category of blogs.

I wasn’t aware that anyone was having a go at Jennie.

>So yeah, ‘politics’ is a broad category, and Jennie, Innerbrat and the F Word are definitely political blogs.

Of course it as, and of course they are. Never said they weren’t. But surely it is a matter for the F Word to decide whether they want to be categorised as a primarily political blog or not.

Why does “other” have to mean “not political”. Isn’t that falling into a “political silo” mentality.

Sticking up for Wikio: Why the need to declare “Victory” over a company who are on our side? They are one of very few companies who take time to engage with individual blogs.

Two serious points:

1 – A broader definition of politics is *precisely* what the political blogosphere needs. Would anyone here disagree with that?

2 – Repeating – why not round up the “girl political blogs” that aren’t in Wikio and submitting them if you want to make sure they are visible?

Well I don’t consider Advancing… to be a political blog. And for that, Mat, I’m going to post some more about knitting just to spite you.

What James said.

I think she’s right to question why a blog about feminism could be presumed to be un-political, just as I think she’s right to identify a double standard.

As I blogged yesterday, Dod’s have just launched their Women in Public Life Awards. Their website is a hideous eyesore of pink flowers. I’m frankly surprised they didn’t include pictures of puppies and a section on makeup tips. And this is an awards scheme for some of the most senior women in politics.

particularly the point on electoral politics

The benefits of a good proofreader in the house…

@Matt: My degree was in politics, hence I studied, amongst other things, formulae for determining what restaurant a group of people should go to (and why I now work mostly in marketing–when I’ve got a client that is). ‘Office’ politics is talked about all the time, football has politics, etc. I had a dig at a friend yesterday for doing a meme that said ‘stop being political’–memes are, by their very nature, political.

So yeah, ‘politics’ is a broad category, and Jennie, Innerbrat and the F Word are definitely political blogs. Whereas mine is a general interest personal journal–I keep my politics posts mostly here unless it’s purely party political these days. Not that I post here enough.

@Dan. Thx mate, you made her smile, which is always nice.

I’m keeping stumm.

Jennie’s long campaign and her awe-inspiring victory against Wikio – AKA the evil ranking empire, is nothing to sniff at.

We’re considering a stature in her honour. Looking somewhat winsome at her laptop.

What about rounding up the “girl political blogs” that aren’t in Wikio and submitting them if you want to make sure they are visible?

>It did actually occur to me that if everything that I think of as political was categorised as political by Wikio then there wouldn’t be much else in the chart…

That is key, especially as it is a good thing (as you argued before IIRC) for political blogs to be a bit less anally political. That would make things interesting for wikio.

Maybe there is some point in this blogging lark after all…