Posted by Merk
January 15th, 2009
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Call to arms
Posted by Merk
January 9th, 2009
The horrible Melanie Phillips’ blog is one of many nominated for the the 2008 Weblog Awards. This is the same horrible woman who loves nothing more than to stir it up with her Daily Mail ramblings and books with loaded titles such as ‘Londistan’.
Melanie Phillips’ is pretty much head to head with Created in Birmingham, a site dedicated to linking Birmingham’s Artistic and Creative Communities. A great site run by and for some great creative and nice people. It’s a been a real close call for a few days now and there is a week of polling left.
As someone who believes in democracy if wouldn’t be right for me to suggest that you lovely Mailwatch readers should vote for CiB on the grounds that your ever humble host is a Midlands boy and that we all hate the Daily Mail with a passion and it would be awful for this hurtful woman to win the award.
That said, the polls are open till the 13th and you can vote again every day. Here’s the link http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-uk-blog/ 
p.s. let us know if you voted.
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Christmas Break
Posted by Merk
December 21st, 2008
Hi gang,
Updates have been a little slow of late, this is (partly) because we’re doing behind the scene secret squirrel opperations in order to launch the new ‘content rich‘ version of MailWatch. There is some server work to do also so this means the site may be down over the Christmas period and when relaunched the whole site will be at the dedicated Mailwatch.co.uk domain, rather than as an extention of an existing domain.
Please bear with us if the site is unavailable or looks broke, go out, get drunk, play with your new Lego or whatever – but be sure to check back in the new year for an improved site with new contributors who are chomping at the bit to get on with the much needed job of keeping the Mail (and others) in check.
Have a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
Cheers
Merk
p.s note to some lucky readers/contributors: please look out for an email for your Front Page of the Year 2008 Award nominations. I might even do a certificate this year, perhaps we can present it to someone at the winning paper.
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