UK Personal Blogs

This is a list of personal blogs in the UK. When I initially started out my PhD research, I had a really hard time trying to find a database of personal blogs in the UK. So I decided to make my own list and hopefully other researchers would find this helpful as well.

The list is an ongoing project and if you are a blogger based in the UK, do drop me a line if your blog is not on the list.

NOTE: This is a list of personal blogs. It does not include corporate blogs, newspaper blogs and blogs of British expats based in other countries. Blogs with explicit adult content and any other blog which I find offensive won't be on this list. 

Please email me if you don't want to be on the list.

List started officially on 18th April 2010.

This page will be continuously revised.

A

• Adamok.net
• Ah Ok Lah 
• All Five Horizons
• Aref-Adib

B

• Bad Science
• Binary Moon
• Blah Blah Technology
• Blogger Buster

C

• Caroline Middlebrook
• Cars Blog - Auto Lah
• Case Insightsh
• Chris Garrett

D

• Daddy Papersurfer
• David Airey
• David Naylor

E

• E-clecticism
• Ecoexplorer

G

• Guido Fawkes' Blog

H

• Here.org.uk

I

• Immigration Alert UK

J

• Jason Bradbury

K

• Katharine Widdows
• Keith’s Personal Blog

L

• Lazy Laces
• Lick That Riff

N

• Naids Chamber
• Neville Hobson

P

• Phill Price

R

• Ramblings
• Recent Reflection

S

• Scotland for the Senses
• Simon Willison
• Spittoon
• Sylvie D

T

• Tim Worstall

Criteo auto blogroll removed

Hoping to get some traffic, I had installed the Criteo auto blogroll in the side bar of a few of my blogs. I have finally decided to remove them as I didn't see any significant traffic from the sites listed. Moreover, I was quite annoyed to find links to blogs I didn't particularly like.

Many of those blogs didn't link back to my blog and some didn't even have a Criteo widget - meaning they were getting free advertising space on my blog. I would rather put in links to blog I like.



There are two advantages of removing useless widgets:
1. Your blog is less cluttered
2. It loads faster

Review of Blogger in draft

They have loads of new experimental features on the Blogger in draft site.

The best feature is the Scheduled Post Publishing which allows Blogger users to write a post which then appears on a scheduled later date.

There is also the option to add a "Blogroll" which some might feel is a replication of the existing "Link List" widget. However, the later involved multiple steps - first the url followed by the name, then you would have to click the "ADD LINK" button and finally clicking the "SAVE CHANGES" button. Now, you can import all your subscriptions from Google Reader and only need to paste the url of the blog then click "SAVE CHANGES" to add a blog to the blogroll.

Other features that Bloggers users have been demanding for a long time have been such as a Search box and Subscription link have also been added.

However, some of the features I really want to see as listed in my post "New features in Blogger that we want to see" are still not there.

Having said that, I was amazed at the number of widgets under the "fun and games" category that can be added to your blog - a total of 2776 at last count.

There are literally thousands of widgets available and you can add yours as well. Feels good to be a Blogger user.

WordPress users - Eat your Heart out.

Favourite links

Check for my favourite links in my Links page. I don't do link exchanges. Sorry!

Joining the do follow blogroll

I wrote about the "I follow Movement" sometime back and how it can help us increase our PR.

Well, Tricia has created a blogroll for bloggers who "Do follow" , ie, they either have the Do follow plugin or have removed the tags from the comment section of their blogs.

Here's the blogroll:


Refer to the 'Do Follow Bloggers' post on Trica's blog for more information.