Blogs and elections

Monday, October 29, 2007
For anyone discovering this blog for the first time, thanks for stopping by. I've been picking up traffic from the links on J'Accuse and from the mention by Peter Serracino Inglott in his Sunday Times interview yesterday. Commenting on the role of technology in Malta's forthcoming general elections, Fr Peter said:
This issue will affect parties and candidates more than they seem to realise at the next election, if one considers the not very impressive quantity and quality of their websites. To my knowledge, there are two outstanding blogs with a political and suitably ironic tinge - each of them with a bias towards one of the two main parties, but without dulling sharpness of mind, namely those by Jacques René Zammit and Robert Micallef.

Writing earlier today, Jacques was not unimpressed:
..our gratitude to Fr Peter for having pointed us out in the first place and for having ever taken the time to notice our not-so-humble existence on the web. After all in a country like Malta being mentioned by Fr P. is tantamount to the highest form of recommendation - because (should I add sadly here?) most people are too busy to form an opinion of their own and will gladly have their opinions formed by the gurus of this small nation.

In view of raised interest, I plan to increase my blogging in this space to share opinions, issues and dilemmas with readers who will always be welcome to send feedback. My other blog space at Wired Malta will remain a platform for a variety of news and views about Malta with a particular focus on how Malta is seen by others. I also plan to invite more guest bloggers at Wired Malta. Drop me a line and let me know if you're interested.