Election night, watch the blogs don't bite
Wednesday, May 02, 2007

It'll never work. But let's have a bash anyway.

Here's the idea: I'll be sitting somewhere in the BBC with Joe Allen of Wales Elects. I'm told it's going to be semi-outside so I might wear the Doctor Who coat.

The two of us will have computers. This is bad news. It's impossible not to look like a techie geek if you're sitting in front of a computer on television. We might even be wearing glasses.

We were both probably bullied at school.

Anyway, the idea is (I think) that we live blog from within the BBC's election hub in Llandaf. This is, by the way, just about the only kind of hub the Lib Dems haven't promised in their manifesto.

But more than that, we'll be monitoring your blogs too and discussing the best of them through the night on the BBC's output in Welsh and English.

There is, of course, a very real danger that nobody will have written anything. Welsh politics is quite a small world at the best of times. And at 4 o'clock in the morning it's probably about as active as Nick Griffin's left eye.

So whether you're a politician, a crony, an observer or a pleb, get blogging on election night so that we can attempt the kind of multi-media convergence the BBC hasn't seen since Sara Edwards once accidentally answered a telephone in the newsroom. It doesn't matter how early or late you post. You don't even have to blog at all, you might simply wish to comment on what other people have written. Just give us a flavour of how you think it's all going and we'll lick it up and spit it out again.

If you want a badge to let us know you're joining in, then shove this picture on your site. Otherwise, just blog away. I'm sure it won't be hard to find you.

By the way, Scottish and even English bloggers are more than welcome to pinch this badge. Some have already done so.

Here's a framed one in case you're a noncy type.

Perhaps we could all cross-fertilize on the night itself? I'm told if Scottish people write stuff down it's just about possible to understand them:)

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