Blogs and the Political Establishment
Being in the thick of student politics in the mid 2000s, I was around just at the very beginning of social media.
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Blogs and Activism
What contribution can a blog make to activism?
New blog: Corner Politics
Welcome to a new political blog, Corner Politics – “a point at which significant change happens – by Lamia (@LI_politico).
Blog rankings
NZ Media and blogs vs blogs
Snippets from a detailed and interesting report on the ownership of NZ media, media trends and issues, and the role of blogs post dirty politics. One major quibble – not all blogs are created equal, no more than all TV is game shows, than all radio is talkback, or than all websites are porn.
The power of blogs
One of the most bizarre aspects of the Collins / Lusk faction’s plans (as per the leaked Lusk paper) was their perception of and plans for blogs.
Evolving online media in NZ
NZ is well served in the range of online offerings that are exploring beyond the fringes of the mainstream media. Welcome to a new player, Bernard Hickey’s JOURNALISM.ORG.NZ.
Daily show interview: Blog Wars
A great interview by Jon Stewart on political blogging. Well worth watching. The part about evolution of blogging in the US is particularly […]
Mistakes, I’ve made a few
David Farrar’s three more prominent weaknesses came together in a speculator PR disaster yesterday. The weaknesses are his ego, his trick of using […]
Clark’s answers delayed
We had hoped to have the answers for our ‘interview the leaders‘ series from Helen Clark today. I talked with the PM’s office […]
Ralston sez: leave poor Johnny alone
In the Herald today, Bill Ralston sticks up for poor John Key who has been the subject of personal political attacks recently. Like […]
Ng on fact-free politics
Keith Ng of Public Address has a long-standing commitment to improving the quality of journalism in this country. Now, he is proposing a […]
Belated big-ups
It’s been a bit remiss of us to have failed to welcome The Hand Mirror into the left blogosphere. I’ve only just had […]
Labour with its claws out
The Press has a good article on the political blogs. The Standard and our mates Kiwiblogblog are referred to as “Labour with its […]
Push polling
Tony Milne responds to National Party blogger, David Farrar’s recent post on push polling. Tony points out that any push polling undertaken during […]
Substance, not style
I don’t know if this is breaking some cyber protocol (oh, but I don’t much care if I am) but I want to […]
Interesting times…
It seems the cats at newzblog have decided to bring our old mate Robinsod on board as a blogger and his first shot […]
New left-wing blog
While I’ve been away some regular left-leaning commenters here at The Standard and elsewhere have banded together to start NewZblog, a new Kiwi […]
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. […]
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 […]
A disturbance in the force?
I might be coming to this belatedly (forgive me if you’ve already noticed it) but it seems the left/right blog war has heated […]
You can fool some of the people…
…all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of […]
Graphically speaking
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The Standard hearts Kiwiblogblog
We’ve just been introduced to a blog we think you might like to meet too: Kiwiblogblog <snip> Kiwiblog is a New Zealand blogging […]
Has DPF lost his mojo?
I dropped into the National Party’s Kiwiblog again last week and I must say it looks like party insider David Farrar may well […]