Margot Wallstrom: Has a Blog

European Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication, Margot Wallstrom of Sweden, has a blog! This being the European Weblog Review, I thought it wouldn't be such a bad idea to, ah, review it. First impression: well, it's rather pretty, with a tasteful marine colour scheme and a pic of the Commissioner looking bright-eyed and open to Europe's citizens. Aww. Terribly Swedish, you might say - IKEAish and inoffensive. Mind you, the blog content is a little awkwardly placed with half of it "below the fold", which means there's no sign of its presence as it doesn't scroll (perhaps that will improve with more content).

In case you're wondering what all this interior design blabber is about, there really isn't much else to talk about, as there is currently only one post. It concerns the tsunami, fado, and gaining weight over Christmas, and frankly it's so nice I fear I may start floating tealights in my toilet cistern. This is Martha Stewart blogging, and I don't think I like it. The zero blog would consist only of black text organised by chronology and linked to others, but it would have to be sharp and argumentative or it would not be a blog. At least not a good one.

Mind you, at least we have so far been spared Jean Claude Juncker's blog, which according to this would be a shocker:

"The 10th January – the first day at work in the new year – the whole Commission visited Luxembourg. The country now in the presidency of the European Union. Jean-Claude Junker is the chain-smoking, colourful Prime minister. One of the longest serving – or I even think THE longest serving Prime ministers in the European Union. It was interesting to know that he has never written a diary but instead he tells "inside stories" over and over again."