The LDV Friday Five (ish): 25/9/09

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The LDV Friday Five (ish): 25/9/09

By Stephen Tall | Fri 25th September 2009 - 6:55 pm

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5 most-read stories on LDV this week

1. Cabinet Office: correspondence chaos (14) by Mark Pack
2. Conference fringe: Defending free speech – keep libel laws out of science (28) by Prateek Buch
3. Nick Clegg’s conference speech, the live-blog #ldconf (10) by Stephen Tall
4. The Independent View: Time to be honest about English matters (31) by David Rickard
5. Blog of the Year Awards 2009: The Winners (6) by Helen Duffett

5 top #ldconf Lib Dem Tweeters

(Hat-tip: Stephen Glenn)

1. Caron Lindsay 86
2. Cllr Daisy Benson 72
3. LibDemConf 70
4. Anna Pascoe 65
5. Stephen Glenn 64

5 top Google search-returns for ‘Liberal Democrats’

(excluding the official Liberal Democrat federal site)
1. Liberal Democrats – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2. Scottish Liberal Democrats
3. Liberal Democrats | Politics | guardian.co.uk
4. Liberal Democrat Voice | Our place to talk
5. Welsh Liberal Democrats

5 active LDV Members’ Forum threads

EU membership
A Sustainable Population Policy
Are there two conferences?
Why the blue stage?
Leader’s speech

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

1. “fiscal crisis” site:libdemvoice.org
2. “fred mackintosh”
3. amazing pritchard lib dem
4. politics home
5. claire brooks site:libdemvoice.org

That’s yer lot, folks, from this third bite of the LDV Friday Five (ish). Let the weekend commence.

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3 Comments

James Graham 25th Sep '09 - 7:26pm

Surely the Scottish Lib Dems and the Welsh Lib Dems are “official”?
Andrew Reeves 26th Sep '09 - 8:17am

James, yes I can verify that the Scottish Lib Dems are official so I also don’t understand the line above.
Stephen Tall 27th Sep '09 - 5:34pm

apologies for confusion. The LDV site went down on Friday night before I had the chance to amend that sentence (now corrected), and I’ve only just been able to access the admin site again.

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