The Top Green blogs have been announced and Scotland's sole representative has scooped second spot. Congratulations to James, fellow bridesmaid. I am well aware of the esteem he has for The Daily (Maybe) so I'm sure he isn't too disappointed to be second for the second year running.
Upon reading the top ten, I couldn't help but think about the recent news that having a black background on a website is significantly more environmentally friendly than having a white one so I thought I'd see how each of the Green bloggers are doing on that score:
1 (1) The Daily (Maybe) - Bright white. 0/10
2 (2) Two Doctors - Bright white. 0/10
3 (9) Peter Cranie - Mostly white with some light green. 2/10
4 (3) Another Green World - Mostly white with darker green. 3/10
5 (10) Barkingside 21 - Mauve? 5/10
6 (7) Philobiblon - Bright purple. 7/10 (an extra 1 for style points)
7 (6) Green Ladywell - Mostly white with some light green. 2/10
8 (18) Rupert Read - Light yellow. 1/10
9 (16) Ruscombe Green - Bright white. 0/10
10 Green Reading - White and light blue. 1/10
So, all in all, an epic fail for the leading Green bloggers. Very disappointed....
(Incidentally, this is post is clearly just banter. And if it's any consolation, I think I recruited a particularly intelligent and switched on person into the Edinburgh East Green party last night (a constituency the party seems to be doing very well in). Needless to say, my initial recruitment drive didn't work out too well.)
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4 comments:
Thanks for the kind words, and I think we'd have worked out it was banter.
It's resolved one thing for me, though. I had always assumed your white-on-blue design was a mix of patriotism and not wanting to make it too easy to read. Now I know it's really about saving the world!
Finally, do give my email to the new recruit you got for us, and keep up the good work.
I think I changed it to blue (from black I hasten to add) for one day for a Scotland game. That was over a year ago! Will pass on details. No promises but you'd be getting a fine catch there if it was more than drunken chat. He said he'd like to be a Green MEP one day so he was clearly blootered ;)
I'm going to take your banter semi-seriously for a sec...
The reason I use a white background is that I find it very difficult to read white text on black background and after a while it gives me a headache - so I'm just doing as I would be done by.
I read most blogs on my rss feed primarily so I can strip out the blogger's formatting and use a crisp white page / black ink. It allows me to by pass those occasional abominations where people use purple background or where their blog is organised like a demented scrap book...
Obviously the most environmentally friendly thing to do is to have no blog at all and live in a cave, but I'm not a good enough green to do that either :)
For me the key is not to moralise at other people and just do my best, which means little things like what colour my background is is just one of the many things I acknowledge I could do in a greener way, but don't.
How you format your blog or website is not necessarily how readers view it - see accesibility options in control panel.
If you don't like it, or find it difficult to read, just hit control A.
So, really it's not our problem, IT'S YOURS!!
If you want to read our websites white on black you can. Just change your settings.
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