Labour’s website: too smart for its own good?
Someone just sent me this blog readability test. It cl/aims to tell you what level of education is required to read your blog/website/myspace […]
Media
Free Speech Coalition – defending their right to hide
The reason for National Party Kiwiblogger David Farrar’s obsession with megaphones is now clear. It’s about electioneering speech, and the logic goes like […]
Electoral Finance – Apoplexy at Kiwiblog
Now we know why Kiwiblog wants the Electoral Finance Bill killed – it could cost Farrar money! Kiwiblog “has some significant advertising lined […]
Granny’s blue woolly slippers
Granny’s campaign against the Electoral Finance Bill started with a bang and ended with a whimper. On Monday there was a banner headline […]
Party like it’s 1999
If we needed any more reason not to let National take us back to the 90s, I think this might be it. Via […]
Looking for: whatever he can get
In perhaps his strongest signal yet to potential coalition partners, John Key has set his Facebook ‘Looking for’ status to “Whatever I can […]
Headline of the Day
Paris Hilton doesn’t help drunk elephants I haven’t read the article yet, and I don’t think I will. With a headline like that […]
Granny gulled by National and Brethren spin
Granny Herald wants to run a campaign against the Electoral Finance Bill when it doesn’t understand the Electoral Act. Worse, because it doesn’t […]
Granny’s wail
Today the New Zealand Herald’s waning tantrum over the Electoral Finance Bill has been relegated to Page 5. Perhaps Granny has paused, had […]
Hollow man beachtowel
Make your National MP’s holiday season with one of these fantastic towels. Currently out of stock but don’t doubt for a minute that […]
Google Australia launches election tools
Google’s launched some great new online tools for the Australian election. Check out: www.google.com.au/election2007 where you’ll find Google maps called maplets, with electorate […]
Take the blinkers off Granny
Granny Herald tries to defend itself against National Party bias by saying it ran a headline “I am not a liar” over Brash […]
Ask not what your country can do for you, DPF…
Interesting to see National Party blogger David Farrar is inciting his readers to start a political party to bypass/oppose the Electoral Finance Bill. […]
Latest Cosmopolitician on shelves now
Thanks to the reader who sent us the latest edition of Cosmopolitican, a nifty little publication that did the rounds just before the […]
Time for an upgrade
So the Herald links to us from the front page of their website this afternoon, and the resulting traffic knocks out our server. […]
NZ Herald to investigate Nats’ funding
Matt Robson’s newsletter has a real scoop on the Herald’s next propaganda campaign: NZ Herald investigation into large, secret party funding I have […]
History repeats, part II
There’s a famous line from Joyce’s Ulysses in which the main protagonist Stephen Dedalus states “history is a nightmare from which I am […]
History repeats
The Dominion, election day 1938: If the socialist government is returned to power your vote today may be the last free individual vote […]
Tell the full story Audrey
Grannywriter Audrey Young’s story headlined “Exclusive Brethren’s email sets stage for Electoral Finance Bill” is more National Party spin. The Brethren’s email to […]
NZ Herald openly campaigning against Govt
So the NZ Herald has finally admitted it’s running a campaign against the government. Check out this ridiculous, chest-thumping, self-congratulatory piece from their […]
Electoral Finance Bill – some sense at last?
I’m not always a fan of Colin Espiner’s work, but thank goodness someone’s injected a bit of sense into this morning’s hysteria over […]
‘Political commentator David Farrar’
You do have to wonder sometimes who’s making the judgment calls in our newsrooms. Last night One News decided to use a National […]
Belated Halloween post – vampire maths
Vampires can’t exist. It turns out that their existence would contradict ours. Here’s the maths to prove it: “Let us assume that a […]
Larry Lessig talks creative freedom at TED
About a year ago I discovered the TED website. It’s rapidly become a staple in my internet diet. From their ‘about‘ page: TED […]
The power of the web
All election addicts are casting their eyes to what is happening in other countries & especially over in Australia and in the States. […]
Terrorism charges blocked
The Solicitor general has decided against allowing prosecutions under the Terrorism Suppression Act for all 12 people referred to him by the police […]
Chaos at National
It seems the suggestion of “Deutschland uber alles” as a campaign song has got National’s General Manager Chris Simpson the boot. I also […]
Herald farewells fact-check
It looks like Herald journo Audrey Young needs to go back to the basics and check a few facts before going to print. […]
New blog
University of Otago political studies student Geoffrey Miller has set up a blog about the ACT Party, called Douglas to Dancing. It seems […]
Kiwiblog loses the plot
Regular readers of David Farrar’s National Party blog will be aware that it’s been in a bit of trouble lately. Aside from the […]
TV One News – oh shame you pakeha palangi
Following a perfectly sensible Cabinet reshuffle story tonight, TV One News must have had this weird rush to the head because they sent […]
Gaybourhood Halloween party cancelled
From the NY Times: This Halloween, the Glindas, gladiators and harem boys of the Castro — along with untold numbers who plan to […]
“Ethical Facebook” for businesses
Actics.com is an online neworking site for “ethical” businesses. Businesses that sign up choose to nominate themselves as expressing various corporate values and […]
The Superest
You’ve probably heard of the battle raging accross the ditch. You’ve probably even heard of the one in the Parliamentary lobby. In California […]
Elephants ‘do a Blumsky’
The Guardian reports that “Six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted as they went berserk after drinking rice beer in India’s remote north-east”. No […]
Outage
Some server issues outside our control caused a bit of an outage this afternoon. We’re up and running again now though, as you […]