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# Where the typical Lib Dem blog reader's head is at
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/where-the-typical-lib-dem-blog-readers-head-is-at/
- Published: 2007-09-12T12:09:58.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:37:18.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:31

**James Graham (London,** [**Quaequam**](http://theliberati.net/quaequamblog/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** I'm not sure that simply exhorting individual Lib-Dems to write for OurKingdom is going to get us anywhere, which is what Anthony seemed to be calling for in his [post on Ming](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2007/09/11/ming-fingers-the-ermine/?ref=opendemocracy.net). Perhaps he should consider a short - baiting - piece on [Lib Dem Voice](http://www.libdemvoice.org/?ref=opendemocracy.net). The response I got from my articles last week on the policy paper was almost nil. There's a more fundamental problem which even I struggle to get my head around.

Look, for example, at the weekly [Top of the Blogs](http://www.libdemvoice.org/category/best-of-the-blogs/?ref=opendemocracy.net) for an indication of where the typical Lib Dem blog reader's head is at: it's all by-elections, rival bashing and solipsism. Stephen Tall - who compiles the weekly charts - expresses [similar concerns](http://oxfordliberal.blogspot.com/2007/08/more-blogging-lists-and-ultimate-lib.html?ref=opendemocracy.net), although it should be pointed out that to an extent that's true of blogging across the political spectrum.

The reason the Tory blogland is slightly more policy based and lively [as OK has been debating](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2007/09/04/why-does-the-right-dominate-uks-blogland/?ref=opendemocracy.net) is partly down to the fact that they have much more media to feed off and partly because Conservative Central Office is much more geared up to using things like [ConHome](http://conservativehome.blogs.com/?ref=opendemocracy.net) to get their message across. To an extent, the Lib Dems will always be disadvantaged in this respect because they simply don't get equal treatment in the media; but I do despair of a media strategy that appears to amount to little more than putting out the occasional press release. Every major policy paper launched over the summer (the party is debating *five* this autumn) has sunk without trace and I struggle to see what the party has done pro-actively to maximise their impact aside from the occasional article in a national newspaper. Compare that with David Cameron's three speeches on crime in the space of a single week last month.

Bottom line? If the Lib Dems had launched that policy paper last week by giving half a dozen top Lib Dem bloggers a preview, you can bet that it would have been talked about a lot more.