tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post2606042567754049526..comments2024-01-11T10:25:57.007+00:00Comments on Labour of Gove: Manchester Blogging Awards: Non Political CategoriesChris Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-90618612806517962852007-10-09T22:38:00.000+01:002007-10-09T22:38:00.000+01:00PS I do like the Shoes one. Had a show and a soc...PS I do like the Shoes one. Had a show and a sock in an exhibition once. A good group exhibition. A running spike it was.Chris Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-4714708668973454472007-10-09T22:37:00.000+01:002007-10-09T22:37:00.000+01:00They are sadly underwhelming. That Ms Baines is so...They are sadly underwhelming. That Ms Baines is somewhere else I think.<BR/><BR/>Having a blog in the running for an award with no posts for four weeks is fairly bad. <BR/><BR/>Having one that has only had content for one month in 12 and that more than six months ago indicates a real problem with the process that has been used.Chris Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-27613448976275835402007-10-09T22:16:00.000+01:002007-10-09T22:16:00.000+01:00Back in 2005, I wrote a feature on blogging for Ci...Back in 2005, I wrote a feature on blogging for City Life (RIP) and in the course of my research came across a total bollocks project (which I pretended was innovative and trendy) funded by the Arts Council and Trafford MBC to encourage online writing i.e. literary blogs. <BR/>In addition, they were supposed to create an online map of the city's literary heritage, on which bloggers would be marked.<BR/><BR/>The domain has been allowed to lapse, but check out Google's cache to see how far they got:<BR/><BR/>http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:2sh-0sdHWk8J:www.nwpassages.co.uk/news.html+%22North+West+Passages%22+manchester&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk<BR/><BR/>Airport Diaries is one of two blogs that benefited from the project (the author was advised to keep it down to a post a week or people would struggle to keep up). At the time I said it was a 'strangely addictive read'. Returning for the first time since then, I discover he's now unemployed. I guess that's the end of that.<BR/><BR/>The other was Half Lived by Truman. His last entry describes the day in May 2006, when he posted his pitch to 37 agents. 22 spam comments later, he still hasn't bothered to let us know how that went.Stephen Newtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10050387848277789711noreply@blogger.com