Jim Jay over at The Daily (Maybe) has published his Best Green Blogs for 2008 and it turns out we've made it to number nine. Blimey.
From that eminent list, a People's Choice winner will be decided by, um, the choice of the people. When I voted (ahem), we were coming fourth, so if you like the blog please get stuck in (you can vote at the end of this blog post).
As Jim Jay points out, the green blogosphere is picking up both in quantity and quality. Which can only be a good thing. And which makes it especially cockle warming to know that somebody thinks we're getting something right.
If you're new to these parts by the way, we took the plunge and started blogging about 18 months ago, when we moved over to the lovely Drupal and started being much freer with our copyright. Like, I suspect, most organisational bloggers, we've had a big old learning curve - sometimes bumpy, sometimes smooth, mostly fun.
I'm not sure where we are on that curve right now (is there an end?) but this seems like a good time to ask what you think of our blog - whether you're a supporter, a regular reader, a blogger or just passing through. What's worked, and what really hasn't? What would you like to read that we're not writing about? What would you like to read less of? Would you be interested in guest bloggers from other blogs? Should we encourage more debate? Start a blogger's resource centre like Greenpeace International's? We can't promise to do it all, but we might well do some of them - and we'll be dead interested in what you say.
In the meantime, have a good browse of these Top Green Blogs:
1. Two Doctors
2. Bean Sprouts
3.Green Girls Global
4. Kitchen Witch
5. Ruscombe Green
6. Peter Tatchell
7. Barkingside 21
8. Earthpal
9. Greenpeace UK
10. Stuart's Big Green Spot
11. Flesh is grass
12. Gaian Economics
13. Johnny Void
14. Coventry Green Party
15. Jenny Jones
16. Philobiblon
17. Ecostreet
18. Hippy Shopper
19. Transition Culture
20. Alice in Blogland
Update, 2 September 2008: Voting's closed but look at that - we won! Thanks to everyone who voted for us and to Jim Jay at the Daily (Maybe) for the great write-up. But there'll be no laurel resting for us...
