Since my Twitter feed is currently getting jammed up with @replies on this topic, let’s take the subject to a more appropriate platform.
In order to qualify, bloggers need to be a) based in the UK, b) still blogging now, c) with all their archives still in one place (so multiple URLs are still allowed).
Cut-off date: February 2002.
Please let us know of any omissions!
(Update: I’m getting progressively more relaxed about c), as you’ll see below.)
12 March 1999 – Giles Turnbull
21 May 1999 – Lindsay Marshall: Bifurcated Rivets
10 June 1999 – Gordon McLean (under various blog titles)
January 2000 – Meg Pickard (formerly not.so.soft and meish, last updated June 2013, old archives set to private)
26 February 2000 – Robyn Wilder (formerly Orbyn, no old archives)
4 March 2000 – Darren: Linkmachinego
early March 2000 – Ann Carrier: Pixeldiva (not updated since February 2014)
7 March 2000 – John Robinson: Sore Eyes
15 March 2000 – Phil Gyford (see also Phil’s comment on The Haddock Directory, which started in 1996)
20 March 2000 – Jez Higgins: The Coffee Grounds
26 March 2000 – Tom Ewing: Freaky Trigger (formerly New York London Paris Munich)
29 April 2001 – Masher: Masher.tv (formerly Masher’s Blog) (older archives missing)
16 May 2000 – Mo Morgan (some long hiatuses, archives incomplete)
31 May 2000 – Nick Jordan (archives incomplete)
3 June 2000 – Cal Henderson: iamcal.com (not updated since February 2014)
25 September 2000 – Graybo: Grayblog
3 October 2000 – Brooke Magnanti (formerly methylsalicylate and Belle De Jour, no old archives)
15 October 2000 – Vaughan Simons: An Unreliable Witness (formerly Wherever You Are, last public post November 2013, all later entries currently set to private)
12 January 2001 – Alan Taylor: Oddverse (formerly Disconnected Zeitgeist)
12 January 2001 – Simon Hayes Budgen: No Rock and Roll Fun
1 February 2001 – Jonathan Green: Overyourhead
4 July 2001 – Matilda: Matilda The Cat
11 July 2001 – Julian Bond: Voidstar
late July 2001 – Anna Pickard: Little Red Boat
29 July 2001 – Stuart Ian Burns: Feeling Listless
29 July 2001 – Dave Kennamatic: Blogging Up The Works (formerly Kennamatic)
12 September 2001 – Karen/Erzsebel: Uborka / Rise
October 2001 – Mark Sinker: hashtag tashlan (formerly radio free narnia)
30 October 2001 – Mike Atkinson: Troubled Diva (many long hiatuses in recent years!)
6 November 2001 – Perry de Havilland & Natalie Solent (and others): Samizdata
January 2002 – Hg: Hydragenic (archives wiped until 2004)
4 January 2002 – Marcello Carlin (formerly The Church Of Me)
16 January 2002 – Sasha Frieze: Sashinka (last updated September 2013)
5 February 2002 – Gert: Gertsamtkunstwerk (formerly Mad Musings Of Me)
6 February 2002 – Alastair Coleman: Scaryduck
27 February 2002 – Arseblog (based outside the UK, but British content)
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