Category Archives: Blogging

Whitewash? The new blog on the block

Posted on November 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The latest blog to appear in Bristol is Bristol 2007’s Weblog. This appears to have been set up to look at the legacy left by the city’s controversial Abolition 200 events this year. The city council’s Abolition 200 Steering Group, … Continue reading →

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An invitation to the shed?

Posted on November 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Sid and Doris Bonkers may soon have to send out that first gilt-edged invitation for a night out in their shed in Sea Mills. Writer of a The Naked Guide To Bristol, Gil Gillespie, who also used to write a … Continue reading →

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New additions

Posted on November 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A couple of new additions to the blogroll. _saturnine who provided the recent Philip Street graffiti photos also has a blog, mainly of photos, here. Bristol Anarchist Black Cross, campaigning for prison reform have also recently started a blog. Their … Continue reading →

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Stat Porn: 100,000 Up!

Posted on November 9, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

On Thursday The Bristol Blogger got their 100,000th hit. This has taken 33 weeks and means that The Blogger is averaging over 3,000 hits per week since it started in March. However the blog is currently getting between 5-6,000 hits … Continue reading →

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Quick off the mark again at the BBC

Posted on October 30, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Bristol Blogger September 29 2007: the council’s recent citizen’s jury on waste . . . appear to have decided to introduce a charge – for the first time – for the collection of extra waste, which the council’s press … Continue reading →

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The Blogger breaks America!

Posted on October 30, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

It looks like The Blogger is set to succeed where Oasis and Robbie Williams failed and break America . . . The Blogger’s post yesterday on Tangent Books’ Banksy’s Bristol has virtually taken the US by storm or at least … Continue reading →

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E-democracy conflab joy

Posted on October 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Are they keeping this a secret so that selected council staff can scoff all the tax payer-funded canapés themselves? An alert reader flags up the forthcoming Bristol E-Democracy Day – ‘Modern Methods of governance – democracy in action or mob … Continue reading →

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The Friday night post: drinking responsibly

Posted on October 12, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

They said on BBC News 24 yesterday that people “should be encouraged to start drinking responsibly earlier”. So I started at 5.00pm today. Not sure it’s such a good idea really.

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Blog Action Day

Posted on October 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

This blog is about to get B.A.D. Vowlsie’s idea I’m afraid. I think he might regret it . . . EXCLUSIVELY this Monday: The Blogger on the environment. Not to be missed!

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This is England (and Scotland and Wales)

Posted on September 23, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

If you wanted to suggest a simple core principle underpinning the UK and its politics at the start of the 21st Century, you could do worse than propose something along the lines of the Voltaireian: “I might disagree with what … Continue reading →

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