Best arts and culture blog 2007

Created by a self-confessed professional journalist (albeit one who chooses to remain anonymous on the site), Mancubist is a slick blog.
In its own description, the author (what exactly IS the problem with putting your name/face out there for all to see?) finds it difficult to pigeonhole the content which is far wider and deeper than any personal blog.
S/he says: “I have trouble defining what Mancubist is. I can confirm that it’s a website – a blog if you must – about Manchester. That much is true. But why build it? Why write it? And why write about art, music, media, local history, rather than something else?
“On Mancubist I write, I guess, about what I’ve learnt about Manchester. I gather and consume information from wherever I can: people, newspapers, websites, your comments and emails, libraries, flyers, even council notices. It seems a shame to waste what I’ve discovered, so I post it here.”
I particularly liked the way this blog is constructed and navigated with some great web 2.0 functionality. In fact the only reason it’s taken so long for me to review this winner of the Manchester Blog Awards is that I found too many interesting links to follow and repeatedly goit side-tracked.
For someone who visits as many sites/blogs as me – that’s an achievment in itself! Good stuff.
I’ll look at the winner of the Best Political Blog next.