They come but once a year: the Bloggies, the annual weblog awards that are usually won by (probably excellent) US blogs I’ve never heard of. Still, I’ll go along and vote for my favourites. New categories for the 2007 awards include “Best Sports Weblog”, for which I will, unsurprisingly, not be making a nomination. There are, however, plenty of categories to meet all tastes.

Nominations are open until Wednesday 10th January at 2007.bloggies.com.

The Liberal Democrat members’ website (follow the link from the bottom of the party website) has a new sidebar for logged in members, carrying the latest party news and headlines from the LibDem blogosphere. (This post will appear on Lib Dem Blogs and then in the sidebar itself, making everything remarkably circular.) I’ve also used the newish TheyWorkForYou API to display information about your local MP.

Please drop me a line at will.howells@libdems.org.uk if you spot any bugs.

There’s also a new tool: a short piece of JavaScript you can use to get the latest party film from Google Video on your website.

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://petitions.libdems.org.uk/showTV.php”></script>

Which produces this:

You can get a smaller version by adding a width parameter to the code, comme ci:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://petitions.libdems.org.uk/showTV.php?width=250″></script>

Which produces this:

Ahem.


Yes, it’s my ITV1 debut, completing a full house of terrestrial channels. Hurrah for YouTube. And yes, I did just point my phone at the TV to get that image: that’s about as hi-tech as I get on New Year’s Eve.

The clip shown, which enjoyed pride of place between David Cameron himself and naughty Sion Simon on ITV’s I Was There: The People’s Review 2006, was very short – you can see the full version here.

Thank you for your visits and comments in 2006 and I hope you have a happy 2007.

And what better way to bring in the new year than with Doctor Who and ABBA? (This is a rhetorical question.)