The Wardman Wire has had a number of "Best of the Web" links from the Guardian in the past. Yesterday we made the Telegraph in the Bishop of Buckingham's personal picks: www.mattwardman.com/blog/ In the Wardman Wire, Matt pokes round media and political dustbins with a fresh Libertarian pointed stick. One other small (and probably meaningless) note. Our technorati score is back up to 325 from...

The Budget is happening today. The Wardman Wire will be covering it on Twitter here. We will be using the hashtag #budget. Out coverage will be a number of the Wardman Wire contributors, from different political viewpoints. Or you can follow the conversation on Twitter via the “Hashtags” (i.e., keywords) #budget, #budget09 or #budget2009. Usually during the event one or other hashtag w...

The Wardman Wire is now on a new webhost. There are still some updates happening, as a few articles and comments have gone missing in the move and need to be retrieved. There are also a few holes since all the images and multimedia files have not uploaded yet. There are something like 7,000 of them taking up 1.5Gb so it takes some time to re-update the directories from scratch. I have had to reupl...

Devolving England, the last Wardman Wire Online Symposium that ran during October is now available as a PDF download. An online symposium is a series of articles from a range of viewpoints on a common subject over several days. We are experimenting with this as a way of encouraging thoughtful debate amongst bloggers and others. Each

I'm introducing a new strategy for advertising on the Wardman Wire. I'll write more about this in coming weeks, and how I think that there is potential for UK political blogs to make more revenue without losing out on quality, but for the moment I'm doing some tweaks over the weekend. So there may be a few intended and unintended changes. You can already buy ads and sponsorship, tho...

I didn't realise what I was taking on when I volunteered for the Carnival of Modern Liberty. The posts have been coming in all week like bills from British Gas, and the doormat is completely buried. So, here we go with the Wardman Wire version, in a slightly less animated style than Jennie last week.

I'll keep this short, sweet and straightforward. Over the last 12 months the Wardman Wire blog audience has grown reasonably quickly by about 6-7 times, and I'm thinking where to take it over the next year. The actual numbers are open to dispute depending on how you count them; but the comparison is consistent. We've experimented with lots of things including daily papers' revi...

I'm trying a new idea, just to see what happens: a cheap and cheerful version of Gawker Artists, with rather less traffic - but a higher grade of reader. The idea is that Artbox will appear for about 40-50% of the time in place of the video advert on the top right of the Wardman Wire webpage. My aim is to give a little publicity to interesting artists. If I feature about two artists a month a...

Matt Wardman (Wardman Wire): This is the second in the lastest series of Blogpower Roundups, and this is my roundup of some of the current live issues around Civil Liberties. While there are differences between bloggers on some questions at the edge on just what comes under Civil Liberties, there's usually a strong consensus around the right to self-expression, and that restriction of topics that ...

I've done a brief interview with Matt Wardman (of the Wardman Wire blog) about the Lib Dem approach to the internet and technology in our campaigning. You can read it here.