Nearly at the end of this look at the winners of the Manchester blog awards and I’d better get on with it.
Here’s the blog which took the award for the Best Political Blog and here’s where I’m go to throw a spanner into the works. Why this won a Manchester award I do not know.
Not that it’s not a decent political blog – it has its moments. But its relevance to Manchester is largely tenuous to say the least.
Instead of being involved in reportage on the politics here on the doorstep, it’s mostly a look at world politics with a strong theme of commenting on The Guardian.
When The Guardian is put away, there’s some interesting postings away from politics about people parking in cycle lanes and other city centre traffic annoyances. Anyone who commutes into the city is sure to want to contribute to the Jeremy Clarkson Award. (See Nov 3 posting).
It’s a good clear standard blog layout but, yet again, completely anonymous. What’s the problem with revealing yourself? That’s every single winning blogger so far prefering to hide their true identity.
So while Politaholic is a good read in a world sense, for me it’s not a Manchester blog, simply a blog created by a Manchester-based person. And that’s an important difference.
Perhaps next year the judges will publish the criteria on which blogs are awarded or make the nominations more specific? Any thoughts on this welcome below.
Last, and finally, I’ll take a look at the Best writing on a blog award winner.
Dim Sum Digital 
Hey sarah, nice to see this belated look at the blog award winners. I can’t speak for all of the judges, but I can say that the Manchester blog awards is not specifically designed to recognise good blogs ABOUT Manchester, but good blogs written by people in Manchester. An important distinction, I feel.
Sometimes the two overlap, but not always, and I don’t think a great blog should be left out of the running because it has a wider focus than our (admittedly fascinating) town.
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