Welcome to the 84th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (20-27th September), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

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Welcome to the 83rd of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (14th-20th September), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

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Welcome to the 82nd of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (7th-13th September), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed. (This week’s selection comes to you live from the LDV cupboard in the Bournemouth conference centre, where the internet is a little wobbly, so ‘scuse any missing links).

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 Blog Awards 08: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (427)

Last night, one of the team hurried home from the bar to bring you the exciting news of the winners of the 2008 Blog of the Year Awards, or “BOTYs”

Now, in the cold light of day we can bring you much fuller coverage, with a podcast recording of the entire evening, just as earlier in the year we brought you a recording of the Campaign for Gender Balance Blog Awards.

I hope the ceremony makes sense as an audio recording but if any of the jokes seem obscure, feel free to ask for clarification in the comments.

And if you were there, and taking advantage of the excellent free ALDC/LGA sponsored wine, do please download the file and listen again. Put it on your iPod and listen to it the next time you take a bundle of leaflets out for delivery. I think the speeches were excellent, and well worth listening to sober too.

A word of warning, however - do be careful if you listen to this recording through headphones. I am a far from expert sound-recordist using clearly sub-professional equipment, and I’m not good at levels. Sometimes, the applause is (deservedly) deafeningly loud.

Welcome to the 81st of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (31st August - 6th September), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

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Welcome to the 80th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (24th-30th August), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed. (And my thanks to LDV colleagues Ryan Cullen and Alex Foster for minding the shop during my so-well-earned hols).

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It’s my turn to collate the 79th of our weekly round-ups (17th - 23rd August) of the seven most popular click-throughs from LibDemBlogs, plus another five that you might have missed. My, that came around again quickly this week.

Let’s get straight down to it, in traditional descending order:

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It’s my turn to collate the 78th of our weekly round-ups (10th - 16th August ) of the seven most popular click-throughs from LibDemBlogs, plus another five that you might have missed.  So, blame me that it’s taken all week to show up.

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‘Tis the season for lists… All this week we’ve published the top 100 posts by Lib Dem bloggers, in descending order of popularity, for the last year - August 2007 to July 2008, inclusive, according to click-throughs from the Aggregator.

(Profuse thanks to techno-wizard and stat-monkey Ryan Cullen, who runs the Aggregator, for compiling this table.)

And now, at last, we come to this year’s Top 10:

1. That day again (Peter Black)
2. Grasping at straws (Peter Black)
3. EXCLUSIVE: Liberal Democrats to drop “Democrats” (Gavin Whenman)
4. Sajjad Karim defects to Tories (Lib Dem Voice)
5. Team Clegg: in full scale meltdown? (Quaequam Blog!)
6. Is Sajjid Karim as big a scumbag as he is being made out to … (Norfolk Blogger)
7. Final update: Blog reaction to Nick Clegg’s speech on public services (Paul Walter)
8. The verdict on Huhne and Clegg’s fuzzy polls (Quaequam Blog!)
9. That Cowardly Norfolk Blogger Tantrum In Full (Love and Liberty)
10. Lib Dem leadership update (Steve Webb)

Top of the Blogs: The Golden Ton (Nos. 81-100)
Top of the Blogs: The Golden Ton (Nos. 61-80)
Top of the Blogs: The Golden Ton (Nos. 41-60)
Top of the Blogs: The Golden Ton (Nos. 21-40)
Top of the Blogs: The Golden Ton (Nos. 11-20)

With thanks to all Lib Dem bloggers for making the last year such a memorable one – now don’t forget to go and nominate your faves for this year’s Blog of the Year awards.

‘Tis the season for lists… All this week we are publishing the top 100 posts by Lib Dem bloggers, in descending order of popularity, for the last year - August 2007 to July 2008, inclusive, according to click-throughs from the Aggregator.

(Profuse thanks to techno-wizard and stat-monkey Ryan Cullen, who runs the Aggregator, for compiling this table.)

In today’s fifth instalment we run through 11-20:

11. Take it down, Chris (UPDATE) (Quaequam Blog!)
12. Nick Clegg up close (Paul Walter)
13. A new banner for Team Huhne (Norfolk Blogger)
14. Shock candidate for Lib Dem leader (Liberal England)
15. The canard of Rennard (Quaequam Blog!)
16. EXCLUSIVE: London LibDem Leadership Hustings Report and my Voting Intentions (The Whiskey Priest)
17. Huhne’s campaign turns negative (Anders Hanson)
18. Don’t help the campaign in Crewe and Nantwich (A Radical Writes)
19. Huhne - I’m happy to jump into bed with Cameron (Lindyloo’s Muze)
20. The final Liberal Democrats Leadership Hustings, and a decis… (Colin Ross)

Top of the Blogs: The Golden Ton (Nos. 81-100)
Top of the Blogs: The Golden Ton (Nos. 61-80)
Top of the Blogs: The Golden Ton (Nos. 41-60)
Top of the Blogs: The Golden Ton (Nos. 21-40)

Tomorrow: the top 10!

‘Tis the season for lists… All this week we are publishing the top 100 posts by Lib Dem bloggers, in descending order of popularity, for the last year - August 2007 to July 2008, inclusive, according to click-throughs from the Aggregator.

(Profuse thanks to techno-wizard and stat-monkey Ryan Cullen, who runs the Aggregator, for compiling this table.)

In today’s fourth instalment we run through 21-40:

21. Nick, time for a small reshuffle? (Cromwell Country)
22. Sunday Telegraph alleges clash between Nick Clegg and Chris Rennard (Liberal England)
23. Cleggs Oft Used Phrase: A Clanger (Gavin Whenman)
24. The Times asks: Is Nick Clegg that good? (Paul Walter)
25. Huhne lost the election today… (I Am Against This Sort Of Thing – now deleted)
26. Nick Clegg: Its beat up an activist day! (Quaequam Blog!)
27. American View of the Clegg-Huhne Hustings (Antony Hook)
28. Karim defection a blow for Nick Clegg? (Jock Coats)
29. Karim defection (Paula Keaveaney)
30. Farewell (Mat Davies)
31. Is Hannah Gardiner leaving Cowley Street? (Jo’s Jottings)
32. So Saj Karim MEP is off (The Yorkshire Guidon)
33. Clegg or Huhne? Quaequam Blog! comes off the fence (Quaequam Blog!)
34. Made my mind up (Ryan Cullen)
35. Ming’s Lists (Pete Dunphy)
36. Mysterious big cash bets piling onto Huhne in last 24 hours (Pete Dunphy)
37. That Huhne dossier in full (Liberal England)
38. Ming told me before Conference he was going to resign (Jeremy Hargreaves)
39. The Messiah has arrived! (Paul Walter)
40. A Vote For Chris (featuring Chris’ answer to a nasty quest… (Love and Liberty)

Top of the Blogs: The Golden Ton (Nos. 81-100)
Top of the Blogs: The Golden Ton (Nos. 61-80)
Top of the Blogs: The Golden Ton (Nos. 41-60)

Tomorrow: 11-20!

‘Tis the season for lists… All this week we are publishing the top 100 posts by Lib Dem bloggers, in descending order of popularity, for the last year - August 2007 to July 2008, inclusive, according to click-throughs from the Aggregator.

(Profuse thanks to techno-wizard and stat-monkey Ryan Cullen, who runs the Aggregator, for compiling this table.)

In today’s third instalment we run through 41-60:

41. Tory compares Boris to Mussolini (Peter Black)
42. Mail on Sunday sleazy journalist Clegg funding scandal complete nonsense (Pete Dunphy)
43. Just how low will Huhne’s supporters go ? (Norfolk Blogger)
44. Clegg should take inspiration from Summerhill School (Jo’s Jottings)
45. BBC website reveals a breakthrough for the Lib Dems (Norfolk Blogger)
46. Fascinating snippet about Saj Karim (Paul Walter)
47. Huhne is “campaigning like a rabbit on crack”
48. Not candidates but leaders: The London leadership hustings (Liberal Polemic)
49. Can Clegg raise his game? (Eaten By Missionaries)
50. The morning after the lunch-time before (Lib Dem Voice)
51. Conservative candidate calls Lib Dem’s death “useful” (Lib Dem Voice)
52. A rush of common sense to the head from Alex Wilcock (The People’s Republic of Mortimer)
53. Has Team Huhne gone into hiding? (Lindyloo’s Muze)
54. ‘Where is everybody?’ They’re all in Henley, Boris! (Helen Duffett)
55. Opinion: Calamity, Conspiracy & Clegg (Lib Dem Voice)
56. I’m actually very sorry, but I did say it would happen (Norfolk Blogger)
57. Clegg Huhne animosity? (Cowley Street Blog – now deleted)
58. Clegg wins BBC Five Live Speed Dating (David Nikel)
59. Huhne’s Trident Policy Collapses (Jeremy Hargreaves)
60. EXCLUSIVE: The shortlist for the next leader of the Liberal Democrats (Quaequam Blog!)

Top of the Blogs: The Golden Ton (Nos. 81-100)
Top of the Blogs: The Golden Ton (Nos. 61-80)

Tomorrow: 21-40!

‘Tis the season for lists… All this week we are publishing the top 100 posts by Lib Dem bloggers, in descending order of popularity, for the last year - August 2007 to July 2008, inclusive, according to click-throughs from the Aggregator.

(Profuse thanks to techno-wizard and stat-monkey Ryan Cullen, who runs the Aggregator, for compiling this table.)

In today’s second instalment we run through 61-80:

61. An odd sequence of events (Peter Black)
62. Updated: Which MPs were in the pub during the abortion vote? (Jo’s Jottings)
63. BBC Shamefully Undervalues Importance of MEPs! (Love and Liberty)
64. Nick Clegg - potentially a great leader of our party (Paul Walter)
65. The public’s comments on last night’s Question Time (Paul Walter)
66. Clegg on school vouchers - the evidence (Jo Hayes)
67. The Paddick Diary (Peter Black)
68. I have voted and not for the obvious choice (Colin Ross)
69. Newsnight leadership hustings: open thread (Lib Dem Voice)
70. Crewe & Nantwich - an utter disaster? (Fine Words Butter No Parsnips – now deleted)
71. Cobblers about the Crewe and Nantwich selection (Paul Walter)
72. London hustings: my verdict (A Posh-Sounding Northumbrian)
73. Huhne wipes the floor with Clegg on Newsnight (Paul Walter)
74. Calamity Clegg? (Liberal Polemic)
75. My 8 wishes for 2008 (Jo’s Jottings)
76. Live Blog - leadership announcement (Paul Walter)
77. A Vote For Nick (featuring Nick’s ‘EXCLUSIVE’ answer t… (Love and Liberty)
78. Incumbents score 100n euro selections (Duncan Borrowman)
79. If the Richmond Formula showed a 12% lead in an election, you’d be over the moon (Norfolk Blogger)
80. Late surge to Chris Huhne! (Paul Walter)

Top of the Blogs: The Golden Ton (Nos. 81-100)

Tomorrow: 41-60!

‘Tis the season for lists… All this week we are publishing the top 100 posts by Lib Dem bloggers, in descending order of popularity, for the last year - August 2007 to July 2008, inclusive, according to click-throughs from the Aggregator.

(Profuse thanks to techno-wizard and stat-monkey Ryan Cullen, who runs the Aggregator, for compiling this table.)

In today’s first instalment we run through 81-100:

81. EXCLUSIVE : Labour MP in shock announcement (Norfolk Blogger)
82. Nick was great on QT! (Liberal Revolution)
83. Want BNP? Vote Labour (Love and Liberty)
84. Nick Clegg: an apology (Anders Hanson)
85. Nick Clegg, what have you sacrificed? (Liberal England)
86. (come to think of it, actually, a bit) EXCLUSIVE: Nick Clegg talks to Quaequam Blog! (Quaequam Blog!)
87. Cleggheads and Huhnistas: what are they like? (The People’s Republic of Mortimer)
88. Lib Dem Euro selection results (Liberal England)
89. The Lib Dem B Team (UPDATE) (Quaequam Blog!)
90. Huhne apology and withdrawal (I Am Against This Sort Of Thing – now deleted)
91. Doubts About Clegg (Charlotte Gore)
92. Retraction (Ballots, Balls and Bikes)
93. 55 more party members back Clegg… (Jeremy Hargreaves)
94. I’ve changed my mind (5Tracks)
95. Kramer and Heath walk out of Lib Dem shadow cabinet meeting (UPDATED) (Lib Dem Voice)
96. How the Lib Dem leadership contest almost turned into a bloo… (Liberal England)
97. Team Huhne in denial? (Cowley Street Blog – now deleted)
98. Cowley St Xmas Party - exclusive photos! (Jonathan Wallace)
99. Mr Smug, Mr Smarm and my naked ballot paper (And Then He Said)
100. Was YouGov’s leadership poll “technically flawed”? (Lib Dem Voice)

Tomorrow: Nos. 61-80!

As Stephen is off on his hols, I’ve offered to collate the 77th of our weekly round-ups (27th July - 2nd August) of the seven most popular click-throughs from LibDemBlogs, plus another five that you might have missed.

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Welcome to the 76th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (27th July - 2nd August), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

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Welcome to the 75th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (20-26th July), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

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Welcome to the 74th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (13-19th July), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

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Welcome to the 73rd of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (6th-12th July), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed. Read more »

Welcome to the 72nd of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (29th June - 5th July), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

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