It's with just a little sense of satisfaction that I can report the Rhuthun/Ruthin Blog is one of the five who've been shortlisted under the Welsh Blog Awards [shortlist here] "Best Community Blog". That surely must be worthy of celebration in itself.The long-list originally contained over 15 blogs but this whittled down to 13. Rhuthun/Ruthin was and remains the standard bearer for the North. We’ve said before and it's worth repeating that we count the others not as rivals but fellow travellers. The four are well written and well presented. But, how does Rhuthun/Ruthin shape up against each criterion the selectors are looking for? Here's our self-assessment.
| Linking out (e.g. via a blogroll) | NEAR PASS. We're not aware of any other local community blogs bar one in Llandyrnog. But we do link to unofficial Rhuthun sites (but not official ones) |
| Plenty of posts | PASS and recent ones, too |
| Informative topics | We'd like to think a PASS |
| Relevant photographs | PASS |
| Embracing Twitter & Facebook | FAIL. What are these strange words? What do they mean? : ) |
| Grasp of spelling, punctuation and grammar | PASS |
| Attributed photographs | N/A as the blog photographer neither wishes for nor craves publicity. All images are naturally used with permission and may I take this opportunity to thank the blog photographer heartily. Diolch o galon |
| Clear "About" page | PASS |
| Responding to comments | FAIL. Oh dear, I fear this will be particularly problematic |