Author Archives: Ryan Cullen

Ryan Cullen is the creator of LibDemBlogs and LibDig. Having first got involved with the Liberal Democrats whilst at Warwick University he got his first real job working as the Communications Officer for LDYS (now Liberal Youth) down in the basement of Cowley Street. He moved to Lincoln to be with his girlfriend and was elected to the City Council. He now works for Vodafone in the Network Support team in Newark and spends nearly all his spare time keeping LibDemVoice and LibDemBlogs running smoothly.
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Boris on YouTube

By Ryan Cullen | Wed 20th February 2008 - 3:54 pm

Being a high profile celebrity has helped Boris Johnson’s name recognition during the London Mayor contest. But being well known comes with its downside too, as it means that your past failings or blunders are likely to be well known too.

The large collection of films about Boris on YouTube demonstrate this well, he’s a very popular subject, but many of the pieces either mock or criticise him.

We’ve selected five, each of which highlights one particular reason not to support Boris Johnson in the Mayoral election.

You can watch them below, and take part in our online poll to …

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Your picture next to your comments?

By Ryan Cullen | Tue 8th January 2008 - 11:16 am

You may have noticed that next to people’s comments is a small picture of themselves.

If you want a picture to appear next to your comments you need to do two things.

  1. Visit Gravatar.com, create an account and upload a picture.
  2. Post a comment, ensuring that your email address that you’ve used on Gravatar is the same one that you’ve put in the comment field.

Feel free to post test comments …

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And the winner is…

By Ryan Cullen | Wed 19th December 2007 - 9:45 am

…nope, not Nick Clegg, but Steve Comer who got the closest in our Leadership Contest Competition only being out by 0.7% of the vote share for Clegg and Huhne and only 0.6% out on the turnout. He will be shortly sent an exclusive LibDemVoice mug in the post. A special mention goes to Alex who was short on the turnout by only 0.1%, and commiserations to Charles Anglin who was actually the closest, but failed to provide a valid email address as required in the rules.
A full break down on the results can be …

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Nick Clegg is the new Leader

By Ryan Cullen | Tue 18th December 2007 - 2:39 pm

The results are in:
Nick Clegg – 20,988 (50.6%)
Chris Huhne – 20,477 (49.4%)
Turnout – 41,465

Nick Clegg
Credits Alex Folkes/Fishnik.com

Standby for further updates, including the winner of our Leadership Election Prediction Competition

EDIT 00:34am: The fullest information on results is available here. From this, we now know that turnout was 64.4% and there were 222 spoiled ballot papers.  The winner of our election prediction competition… will still need to wait for Ryan’s spreadsheet to be completed. – Alex Foster

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New Theme

By Ryan Cullen | Sun 16th December 2007 - 9:31 am

After spending all week working on this new theme, it’s time to launch our new look.

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LibDemVoice Blog Meet

By Ryan Cullen | Fri 24th August 2007 - 6:53 pm

In association with LibDemBlogs we’re inviting bloggers to join us for a drink in Brighton.

Place: Evening Star, 55/56 Surrey Street, Brighton, BN1 3PB
Date: Tuesday 18th September, 7pm – late

Everyone is welcome, even those who aren’t at conference. The pub is a short walk from the conference centre and very close to the railway station.

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Free Blog Advertising

By Ryan Cullen | Fri 24th August 2007 - 5:27 pm

Matt Wardman of The Wardman Wire is playing about with a WordPress plugin to display adverts on his site. So for testing purposes, he’s after 468×60 pixel banner ads of people’s blogs. It doesn’t matter how small or new your blog is, Matt is willing to promote you. For more info, plus a competition to win even more displays visit Playing with Adverts – free advertising for you…

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Forum back up

By Ryan Cullen | Sun 8th July 2007 - 12:10 pm

The LibDemVoice Forum will be down today to allow some upgrades to take place.
The Members’ Forum is now back up.

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