Total Politics poll: The deadline approaches

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk

The deadline for voting in the Total Politics Best Blogs Poll is now just a couple of days away.

As last year, when LabourList finished 15th, we’re again co-hosting the poll, alongside Lib Dem Voice and Iain Dale. The results will be included in the forthcoming book, the Total Politics Guide to Blogging 2010-11.

As Total Politics says:

“There are many ways of measuring a blog’s popularity. Wikio and Technorati have complicated logarithms which measure the importance of incoming links and traffic. Google Analytics does it by measuring how many people visit. But the TP poll gives blog readers the opportunity to vote for the ones they like and visit most often. It’s not scientific. It’s impossible to achieve 100% balance and no one pretends it’s perfect.”

We think that, as one of the few comprehensive – if imperfect – measures availbable on the state of the political blogosphere, this is a really worthwhile exercise.

The rules are simple.

1. You must vote for your ten favourite blogs and rank them from 1 (your favourite) to 10 (your tenth favourite).

2. Your votes must be ranked from 1 to 10. Any votes which do not have rankings will not be counted.

3. You MUST include at least FIVE blogs in your list, but please list ten if you can. If you include fewer than five, your vote will not count.

4. Email your vote to [email protected]

5. Only vote once.

6. Only blogs based in the UK, run by UK residents or based on UK politics are eligible. No blog will be excluded from voting.

7. Anonymous votes left in the comments will not count. You must give a name.

8. All votes must be received by midnight on July 31st 2009. Any votes received after that date will not count.

Email your top ten blogs now to [email protected].

If you have any queries about any aspect of this year’s blog poll or book, please email [email protected].