Matt Seaton should give us the below the line low down, asap . But the strange and sad thing is that this is the first year that CiF itself has not been nominated as a top political blogging site when it obviously is. If we thought about it we would have to think about the weaknesses of the present arrangement on CiF. 1. The terminal 5 -type screw up of the redesign. 2. The fact that posters are no longer equated with bloggers. Bloggers post in big fat thundering letters , while posters write in a tiny little squeaky type face and disappear from view after 50 comments. 3. Then instead of really tackling the big issues face on what we get is a constant polling of the Guardians market segment: "readers". Us. That's why Charlie Brooker and David Mitchell excite the Guardian, because we get the celebrity fan clubs posting (the kind of "Oh David, I love you," swoon, swoon thing.) and the Guardian believe a new posting dawn has arrived. It hasn't. You build up
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