It was truly fascinating to meet – in the flesh!!! – euro uber-blogger Julien Frisch this week when he paid a visit to our humble faceless office block. Rarely-seen editors emerged blinking into the light to proffer a hand, impressionable young web-editors jostled for a sighting of a local myth, glamourous young ladies solemnly vowed not to wash their hands for a week… (H1N1 notwithstanding) :-)

Not a bad likeness, actually...

No, seriously Julien, it was great to see you and spend an hour throwing around some ideas about blogging, Europe, the constraints of institutional commuunication and, basically, How To Do It Better.

So we were curious to read what you would write afterwards. Well, now you’ve published your third Brussels Bubble post, all we can say is Yes, we agree! Especially with the following paragraph:

They looked really enthusiastic, interested and willing to get the visibility of the Parliament to a new level – and I can only ask all politically responsible persons within and outside the EP to support them in their endeavour!!

There was much more than that of course and I would really recommend it to anyone who wants to think about EU blogging and the issues which surround it.

We’re working on how to make this blog do more – we have ideas, some of which you helped inspire, others we have been developing for a while. We’d be grateful for your feedback.

Meanwhile. First step. A really short post.