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Blogging in Medway
AS THE regular readers of this blog will be aware, I try to keep up-to-date with the goings on within Medway, and one of the ways in which I try to achieve this is by keeping an eye on local blogs.
Well today I came accross yet another one (Rainham Ramblings) and have added it to my local blogs link list on the right, despite the fact that it is extremely disappointing (the author, Harry Keane, has made just four posts, with no content since July 2.
If you know of any local blogs I should be keeping an eye on, or if you run a blog and would like me to link to it, please get in contact with me in the usual way, or post a link to it below.
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I too have now looked at “Rainham Ramblings”, and although I appreciate why you would have wanted to include a link there, the author does come across as something of a sad case — a bit like a cross between Victor Meldrew and Marvin the paranoid android.
It has been my experience that very few people respond to such an outlook, and usually such sites tend to run out of steam very quickly. It is a shame, as there is possibly something useful and worthwhile waiting just around the corner, if only the author could bring himself to post something positive for once…
Meanwhile, yes there are worthwhile blog sites out there, though you did recently state that you were concentrating on a short list of specific wards or Medway-wide only.
This is a pity, as there is a ward-based blogsite that I consider to be an absolutely superb example of what such a site should be, and that is the Princes Park blogsite. I love this site to pieces, and would like to have something similar as part of my own website, for my ward. If I can persuade my ward colleagues to contribute regularly, perhaps we can!
Have a look back over recent weeks (and beyond!) on that site, and see what you think. Okay, occasionally a hyperlink doesn’t work (but then, others also seem to have this problem!) and image alignment is occasionally askew, but just see how the “Pat and Matt Show” (as I call it) has put their hearts into their work, and into their ward. It is truly superb! Princes Park is very lucky to have those two as its ward councillors.
Actually, I now notice that you have the Princes Park blogsite linked: I hadn’t realised just how many sections going so far down the page you had, and missed it!
Anyway, it would still get my vote as the best of its type that I know, so was worth mentioning.
Princes Park was the first of the three ward blogs to be linked to from here. It was also so popular that even Ian Dale links to it.