Stuart Bruce brings us the news that the Labour Party are following in the footsteps of the big US political parties – well sort of – by opening up this autumn’s Labour Party Conference is to bloggers.
[Labour] have announced this competition to offer an “up and coming blogger access to this year’s Party Conference”. If all that is on offer is “access to all the key speeches and events at Conference and you’ll be blogging from the floor about your experiences” then it is pretty underwhelming.
Hmmm. I think I’ll enter anyway. If only to make snarky comments about how out of touch with the modern world most British politicians are.
Oh, and while I’m on a “they don’t understand us” rant… I watched Newsnight on the BBC last night – they were talking about how the blogosphere broke the story of those doctored photos of the Lebanon conflict. Only, it wasn’t “bloggers” who did it – it was “internet bloggers”.