Articles tagged Blogging:
Welcome to Dale & Co
- 8 Jul 2011
Welcome to Dale & Co. When I stopped my old blog, Iain Dale’s Diary, I did it for several reasons, not least that I didn’t have time to update the site four or five times a day. But I already had it in mind to transform my blog into more of a group effort. Initially, I tho...
Evening Standard Column: So Why Did I abandon the World of Political Blogging?
- 16 Dec 2010
So why did I do it? Why did I abandon the world of political blogging? Simple. I’d had enough of it, and when you stop enjoying something it’s time to quit. Since 2005 I have developed my blog into one of the top three political blogs in the country. Over the last year a milli...
Why I'm Giving Up Blogging (And Party Politics)
- 14 Dec 2010
Well, I am afraid this is the blogpost where I tell you that I am giving up blogging. This decision has been coming for some time and was nearly made a month ago, but I couldn't quite bring myself to do it then. Well, today I can. There's no single reason, but let me try to...
High Court Finds Against Leading Labour Blogger
- 8 Apr 2010
Alex Hilton has not had a good day if my reading of this interim judgement in the High Court is correct. Reading between the lines, it could have severe implications for all bloggers. In short, he is being sued because of an article posted on Labour Home which intimated that s...
Will 2010 Be the Year of the Left of Centre Blogs?
- 31 Dec 2009
In a thought provoking article for this week's New Statesman, James Crabtree (Deputy Editor of Prospect Magazine) asserts that the left wing blogosphere will come of age in 2010 and will finally catch up with the success of blogs on the right. I don't buy the argument that ...
Ten Blog Headlines You Won't See in 2010
- 30 Dec 2009
Gordon Brown is the Man to Win Us the Election Tom Harris Jack Straw Should Lose His Job Left Foot Forward My Fellow LibDem Bloggers Are Such Nice People Norfolk Blogger LIBDEM COUNCILLOR IN SCANDAL Mark Pack OBAMA WAS RIGHT ON HEALTHCARE Donal Blaney I Pro...
Winning an Award
- 13 Oct 2009
This morning I won an award. I've never won one before, so I'm feeling rather euphoric. It was the EI Online Commentator of the Year. I was shortlisted with Guido Fawkes and Chris Dillow of Stumbling & Mumbling. The event was entertainingly compered by style guru Peter Yor...
Dale v Aaronovitch
- 23 Jun 2009
I reckon I blew my chances of a column on The Times yesterday evening at the Editorial Intelligence Bloggertariat v Commentariat event. The first three speakers (Anne Spackman, Comment Editor of The Times, Martin Bright and Mick Fealty) had all been a bit matey so I decided to...
Nightjack Wins the Orwell Blogging Prize
- 23 Apr 2009
Well, I have continued my record of never having won anything in my life, beyond a few £50 premium bonds! At the Orwell prize last night, the blog prize went to the Nightjack blog. He's real life police detective and writes an excellent blog about police matters, although he o...
20 Sentences Top Bloggers Will Never Write
- 10 Apr 2009
20 Sentences Top Bloggers Will Never Write Dizzy Thinks I am just not interested in a story which combines technology with tits. Guido Fawkes Damian McBride will still be in a job by the end of the month Tim Montgomerie A world without America would be a far better...