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# <i>The Guardian</i> decides to <a href="http://kickaas.typepad.com/" target="_blank">KickAAS</a>
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2003/08/the_guardian_de/
- Published: 2003-08-18T12:58:09.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T08:41:54.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: national newspapers, newspaper blogs, The Guardian

Well now, here’s an interesting development. *The Guardian* newspaper has had [news](http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) and [technology](http://www.onlineblog.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) weblogs for a little while now. This morning it has decided to [launch a weblog](http://kickaas.typepad.com/kickaas/2003/08/abolish%5Fall%5Fagr.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) devoted to a single political cause: an end to all agricultural subsidies.

It’s been online for a little while, with the first entry back last [Tuesday](http://kickaas.typepad.com/kickaas/2003/08/botching%5Ffarm%5Fr%5F1.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com).

It’s an issue that interests me and I’ll be watching the weblog. The big question in my mind, though, is when are the other newspapers are going to enter the blogging pool, where *The Guardian* is swimming all alone right now?

One thing does puzzle me about all of this, though. Why host it on [Typepad](http://www.typepad.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), rather than as a [MT](http://www.moveabletype.org/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) blog on The *Guardian*‘s own webservers? It may be that this was done without going through the publisher’s IT team, and who can blame them?