136,000 visits!
This week the British Computer Society gave a reception at the House of Commons to give awards to blogging MPs. To my amazement, my blog was highly commended and got runner-up status in the ‘engagement’ category. I was surprised and delighted because it is all pretty low key stuff compared with other rather more exciting MP blogs.
It is curious. My website (www.richardspring.com) gets only a fraction of the 136,000 hits the blog is receiving each month. Yet a great deal of effort is made to maintain and update the former. It shows how blogging is now really part of modern life.
A number of my blogging parliamentary colleagues have given up because of the time it takes to write something each day. Frankly I am never at a real loss about having something to write about, because there is simply never a dull day in the life of a member of the House of Commons!