Put simply, Mancubist is a blog about Manchester.

Like anyone, I stumble across information about the city – via people, newspapers, books, websites, blogs, comments, emails, flyers, even council notices. It seems a shame to waste what I’ve discovered, so I post a digest of it here.

If you want to stay up-to-date with Mancubist, try the RSS feed or the mailing list. And if you’ve got a suggestion/recommendation/criticism for Mancubist, please get in touch using the form below.

Accolades…

Manchester Blog Awards 2007 – Winner – Best Arts and Culture Blog

Manchester Blog Awards 2006 – Shortlisted – Blog of the Year

Workshops…

So you wanna be a blogstar? – Manchester Digital Development Agency – January 2008 and October 2007

Not my words…

“Art, music, tech, media, and photos of clubbers outside rainy nightclubs” – The Guardian

“Rock solid local arts and culture blog… a one-stop shop for the discerning Mancunian” – CityLife

“We don’t have a Manchesterist yet, although Mancubist does a good job all on his own” – Londonist

“Manc blogging legend” – Full Volume

“An inspiration for local journalism” – The Daily

“Finally, a decent Manchester digest” – Magic-Paws, StumbleUpon

“Great Manchester miscellany” – Newfred

“Easily the most comprehensive list of interesting stuff going on in Manchester” – Ioannis’s Studio

More about this website:

• Domain registered very cheaply through Krystal.co.uk
• Hosted by the lovely people at UKFast.net of Manchester
• Built using Wordpress – the best blogging system
• Theme based on Minima Plus by ThoughtMechanics.com
• Nifty masthead rotator script by AutomaticLabs
• All cracked and hacked to death by, er, me – contact me below if you’d like me to do something similar for you
• Oh, and the ‘Life is good in Manchester’ tagline is taken from a plaque in Manchester Art Gallery, created by Martin Vincent

Some statistics:

• Well over 1,000,000 page views
• Each visitor typically views four pages
• Google PageRank of 5/10
• Over 500 RSS subscribers, plus 250 by email subscribers and a similar number of Twitter followers
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