LibDig – not what differentiates a pitbull and a hockey mom, but a new tool to help further promote the best of libdemmery on the net.

Congrats to Ryan who has got a working form of Digg, specially for Lib Dems, up and running in just a few weeks.

The idea is simple. If you like an article, you submit it to LibDig, using the handy bookmarklet which you can drag to your bookmark bar (in my case, between “Post to del.icio.us” and “Add to Google Reader”), so that you can recommend it to other Lib Dems. It needs a working Lib Dem Account, which anyone with a current party membership can sign up to from the site.

As we were leaving Bournemouth this year, I texted a colleague to say “If we get a site that does this, can we call it LDIG?” – an in joke based on the party’s Euro-enthusiast wing called LDEG – Lib Dem European Group – and not a million miles from LDEPP, which is what our group of MEPs are called, the Lib Dem European Parliamentary Party.

Sadly, it was not to be as our technical friend Ryan thought the joke to inward looking and too open to misinterpretation. He has kindly encouraged us to refer to it as that internally if the joke still makes us happy, so I will be stubbornly calling it that, even if I end up being the only one.

NOT-TO-BE-CONFUSED-WITH…

• LibDig.com – apparel for librarians
• LibDigOnAPig – James Graham’s suggestion for the branding of the US content