BBC NEWS | The Reporters | Mark Mardell

The EJC is organising a European blogging competition in the run up to the elections. Unfortunately only three entrants are being allowed from each country, and the contestants have already been chosen. As part of the event there is a new fantastic resource: a blogging portal listing the main EU blogs.

One of the participants suggested that people increasingly felt disconnected from the political process and distrust the mainstream media. So he argued it was the job of bloggers like himself to put the view of the people, not the elites.

That would be our anonymous blogger from the green island.

FT.com | Brussels Blog | Cheeseburgery hamburgers and the problem of computerised translations

This morning I found myself on a public platform in a Brussels hotel for my first ever European bloggers' conference. As a representative of an "establishment" news organisation, I was half-expecting to be roasted alive. But in the end both Mark Mardell of the BBC, my friend and fellow-guest, and I got through it safely enough.

Some advice for new bloggers | Nosemonkey's EUtopia

With the launch of the laudable Think About It EU blogging competition this past weekend (sorry I couldn't make it, chaps, etc.), and the neat coincidence of the public launch of the rather promising BloggingPortal.eu cropping up at the same time, four bits of advice to anyone just starting up an EU blog, after almost six moderately successful years of my running one.

I'm told we meet Marianne Mikko today. Fun!