THREE SW BLOGGERS MAKE TOP 10 IN TOTAL POLITICS POLL OF GREEN BLOGGERS
02 September 2010
THREE SW BLOGGERS MAKE TOP 10 IN TOTAL POLITICS POLL OF GREEN BLOGGERS
Stroud's bloggers Molly Scott Cato and Green Party District councillor Philip Booth came away with positions 6 and 10 while North Somerset's Richard Lawson took 9th place. The poll results are based on more than 2,200 people who voted in the Total Politics Annual Blog Poll during the second half of July.
There are now millions of blogs worldwide. They are a form of website or part of a website that is usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, debate, thoughts or reports.
Richard Lawson, a Somerset Green blogger, said: "Green politics depends on a chain of reasoning: the world is finite; it is impossible to expand forever into a finite space; therefore we must change our economy to align our economic activities with reality. Blogging gives us an ideal space to present the detail of this thinking, and what it means for mankind, and to debate with those who think otherwise".
Molly Scott Cato, Economics spokesperson for the Green Party, who came in ahead of Guardian blogger George Monbiot, said: "As Bloggers who share our inspiration in nature and our vision of a world of justice and peace, it is rather tricky when the annual competition of political blogs comes around. Perhaps the heartening news is that so many of the messages we put out this year become the big stories of next year. We may not have the most readers, but those we have will get the 'news' before everybody else."
Philip Booth, whose blog sees over 3,000 visitors a month and has over 2,500 blog entries to date including videos of local events, said: "I started the blog when I was first elected as a local Green councillor in May 2006 as a way to share what I was doing with local residents. The blog tries to give a flavour of what I'm doing as a local councillor - it is a way to share stuff that interests me, local projects and campaigns. I get a number of emails daily about the blogs: some challenging, some supporting. It is another way to be in touch with people."
See top three bloggers at:
http://gaianeconomics.blogspot.com/
http://ruscombegreen.blogspot.com/
http://greenerblog.blogspot.com/
The top ten Green bloggers (with 2009 position in brackets) were:
1 (1) The Daily (Maybe)
2 Bright Green Scotland
3 (2) Two Doctors
4 (5) Barkingside 21
5 (4) Another Green World
6 Gaian Economics
7 (21) George Monbiot
8 (8) Rupert's Read
9 (11) Mabinogogiblog
10 (9) Ruscombe Green
