Steve Webb, the Lib Dem MP for Northavon, has a track record of being down with new-fangled interweb technologies, which led to him winning the Hansard Society’s E-Democracy Award a couple of years ago. It should be little surprise then that he has become the latest of the party’s MPs to take up blogging, with his puntastic new site The Webb log. Welcome to the blogosphere.

Perhaps as a result of various New Year’s resolution, Steve takes the total number of active blog on Lib Dem Blogs to 111;, if we were mentioning cricket, which we’re not, it would be time for a superstitious hop of some sort.

Mike draws my attention to a successful use of the internet in the last few days. Nicholas Hellen, a Sunday Times journalist responsible for a certain unpleasant email, now finds that highlighted when his name his entered into the world’s leading search engine. Abby Lee’s blog isn’t one I read (not my cup of tea), but I sympathise with her outing. Have a look at the email to see why.

Last month, Peter (to whom a belated happy birthday) defeated Serenata Flowers with the help of bloggers who were as annoyed as him that Serenata’s “third party marketeers” had been spamming blog comments. The company apologised and promised not to do it again.

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.

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.