The Week in Bloggingportal: Planning The Future

You might have noticed we had some down-time this week. We’re still not entirely clear what caused it, but thank you to our technical wizard Stefan Happer for his work trying to fix it. Last week, Julien Frisch tried to start a conversation about the future of Bloggingportal. That attempt was interrupted by the down-time, so Kosmopolito has tried to resurrect it on his blog here. Please comment and let us know what you think.

Other posts of interest this week include a promising new series on the EP web team’s blog. It’s going to be a series of posts from someone applying to be an EU official and going through the competition process. Barbara talks about the element of blind luck involved in the procedure, and calculates her odds of winning a position. We look forward to more.

Stephen has picked up a story about the European Parliament possibly giving accreditation to bloggers. It’s not clear exactly how this would work, but if you’re a blogger in Brussels (or Strasburg) then this is a story you should be following very closely.

Finally, Julien has a story about a controversial piece of legislation – under the auspices of fighting internet paedophilia – which would see every search query you make on engines like Google stored for up to two years. Several MEPs have now withdrawn their names from the proposal – claiming they were mislead about its intentions.

Another short one this week – but those dreaded exams are calling! Hopefully see you next week for another Week in Bloggingportal!