Dan Dan the Wikio Man has slipped me a note under the table again.

( click here for the speshul sekrit exclusive stuff )

If you think that this chart is all to cock, it's up to you to change it. Wikio gets better the more blogs are submitted to it. If you are reading this? Submit your blog. Submit the blogs you read. ESPECIALLY if they are fandom blogs, art blogs, science blogs... Wikio is hugely skewed towards politics at the moment, because all the political bloggers, egotists to a (wo)man, have submitted themselves. Lets right that skewage a little, shall we? I still want to see That Tory Blogger knocked off his perch by someone like Lawrence Miles... ;)

Mat and I were walking with the doggies to pick the small person up from her dad's when we heard SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECRUMP. There was one of those moments of synchronicity that we have: we turned to each other and each tried to pass the other the lead we were holding, then we shrugged and took the doggies, and ran to help.

We were first on the scene, so I got my phone out and dialled 999. There was a very nice scottish gentleman who asked me which service, and then I got passed to a lady at Wakefield. I was still describing to her what was happening when the police got there, which was very impressive. There were two cars, one either side of the road, and the driver of the one that appeared undamaged was helping the driver of the one that had demolished the electricity sub station that Dougie Blackhall crashed into a while back out of her car. The police lady went to help the drivers and the policeman approached us to find out what we had witnessed.

When we explained to the policeman that we hadn't seen what happened, only heard, he let us go, and we went and picked Small Person up. Five minutes later we were walking back and the ambulance had arrived for the driver of the second car. I spoke to the policeman again and he said she was going to be OK, she was just shaken up.

All in all, I'm very impressed with the speed and professionalism of the emergency services. Also quite impressed with the way the crumple zones on the car had worked to protect the driver.

Also also, quite proud of Mister Mat, whose first instinct was not to run away, or to gawp, but to help.

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No, not THAT exciting news. Dan Dan the Wikio Man has sent me a sneak preview of this month's politics chart. Now, I realise that there are those of you who are reading this who are thinking so what? Well, the Wikio charts are compiled in an interesting way. They don't measure how many readers you have, or how many subscribers you have; they measure how many people link to you from the body of their posts. So it's not a measure of how many people are reading you, but of how many people consider you an authority.

With that in mind, it's depressing that That Tory Blogger is limpet-like at the top, and has been forever, but that is partially because Wikio only tracks the (tens of thousands of) blogs which have been submitted to it. Which is where you guys come in. Wikio gets better the more blogs are submitted to it. If you are reading this? Submit your blog. Submit the blogs you read. ESPECIALLY if they are fandom blogs, art blogs, science blogs... Wikio is hugely skewed towards politics at the moment, because all the political bloggers have submitted themselves. Lets right that skewage a little, shall we? I'd be really happy to see That Tory Blogger knocked off his perch by someone like Lawrence Miles... ;)

Anyway, two days ahead of the official release of the data, I bring you the top 30 Wikio Politics blogs:

( they're under the cut )

Cthulhu, I feel like Jacqui Smith now...

Fellow Lib Dems? We have been infiltrated. James Graham just confessed on twitter that he and Helen Duffett are one and the same, and he's actually a Slitheen in human clothing. He's also claiming to be Will Howells, Tom Watson and Stephen Fry.

Follow the unfolding insanity of what happens when you let Lib Dems loose on a protest march with mobile phones and twitter accounts at #climatemarch or Lib Dem Tweets.

In related news, did you know that if you google for James Graham, the third result is "Graham's Celestial Bed"? LMAO!

... for me, at the AGM of our local party, being elected to the role of Press and Communications Officer. Also conference voting rep. Many other people were elected to important positions also.

What, there's some OTHER election going on today?

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Sorry... Had to do that.

Mat is staying up all night and joining in the Liveblog on LC (which appears to be a sort of embedded chat room - OMG SO OLD SKOOL! I got over chat rooms when I was an HP fan... ;)). I am strangely serene about the US elections; whatever happens, there's nothing I can do to affect it, I'll only be a casualty of whatever the result is. I hope you guys over the water get the right result come the morning. I'll see y'all then.