Category Archives: UK Politics

Most read articles from last week

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Here’s a quick list of the most read articles from Poblish over the past week (count in brackets):

I’ll add more statistics to the site when I get the chance.

Aggregated Twitter feeds: @poblishLab and @poblishNI

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I’ve added the ability for Poblish to automatically republish articles that it aggregates to single, group Twitter feeds – within minutes of publication. The most obvious use is to connect a Twitter account to a Poblish Group; so we currently have:

  • @poblishLab – the collective output of 801 UK Labour bloggers.
  • @poblishNI – the collective output of 68 political bloggers from Northern Ireland.

For each Tweet we display the original blogger’s Twitter name (else their Poblish username), a summary of their post, a bit.ly link to the original article, plus a group-specific hashtag.

In fact, the facility is flexible enough to allow arbitrary content queries (e.g. all references to ‘Obama’, or ‘Gordon Brown’) to be republished, custom feeds, or arbitrary collections of blogs.

Overall, the aim is to ‘free up’ the political data that Poblish is curating, and get a wider audience for the bloggers that we feature.

Tory blog aggregation

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It’s not well-enough known that Poblish‘s support for custom groups means that the issue of the missing Conservative Blog Aggregator, that Matt Wardman wrote about last year, has finally been solved, once and for all. Labour bloggers have had one for nearly 5 years.

Clearly this is extremely useful for anyone who’s interested in what UK Conservatives are talking about. So, here’s the Conservative Party group page, where you can watch the live feed. Here’s it is in JSON format, and in RSS 2.0 format.

The group currently contains 527 members, which comprises: all Conservative MPs  (via They Work For You), plus all the bloggers from the Total Politics directory, minus the broken links and the bloggers who weren’t really Tories on closer inspection.

Liberal Democrats shouldn’t feel left out, even though we only have 67 members at present. Here’s their group page, their JSON feed, plus the RSS representation. They do, of course, already have a well-known aggregator of their own.