Welcome back! - 12 comments

Well, it's about seven months since the last post, long beyond the point at which blogs are normally judged to be dead, but I'm minded to get Bloggers4Labour - the service, the 'focal point', plus my own posting - going again. I think that can work, if only posting duties and general activity is spread more widely than before.

So here's my idea: I'd like some amongst the community of generally Labour-supporting bloggers to volunteer to post here, with each blogger doing so on a particular day of the week. So, essentially, I'm looking for six bloggers to come forth and select their day, or say 'any' and let me choose for them. If I can get six I'm sure I'll be sufficiently enthused to take the remaining day myself.

Posts can be weekly round-ups on particular topics, daily 'Best of the Blogs', or, if you prefer, one-off posts. You'll keep the right to cross-post to your own blog, if you have one, and will be able to add a little plug to that blog, here. There must be some degree of 'quality-control'. I won't go into detail here, suffice to say that puff pieces and overly partisan hatchet-jobs are unlikely to be of interest. Still, the vast majority of Labour-sympathetic bloggers shouldn't be put off by this at all.

I do think volunteers ought to 'sign up' for a minimum period - at least six weeks or so. It wouldn't be the end of the world if they were unable to produce a piece precisely on time, or even at all for a particular week, but there has to be some commitment - there could be others keen to take over that slot. Furthermore, a regular flow of thoughtful pieces is a big part of what Bloggers4Labour needs.

So, please get in touch.

P.S. Yes, I did allow a large backlog of unapproved blogs to build up. Many apologies, too, if you failed to get a timely response to a contact mail. I hope to clear that backlog, and to be able to respond to future emails, though I'm afraid I can't commit to responding to all of the multitude that arrived during B4L's hiatus.

P.P.S. Blogger still appears to suck - are there any developments I've missed?