Kiwiblog and the Harmful Digital Communications Act
I have updated Kiwiblog’s complaints policy to take accounts of the Hamrful Digital Communications Act 2015. The policy is here. The new section is below: Harmful Digital Communications If you believe...
View ArticleIf Kiwiblog is slow, this is why
I’ve been told my the ISP which hosts Kiwiblog (the wonderful Inspire Net) that for the second time in around a month there has been a large scale distributed denial of service attack on Kiwiblog....
View ArticleCan blogs pick up the slack?
Gordon Campbell writes: To state the bleedingly obvious: the blogosphere does not have the resources to compensate for the reduction in competition (and the loss of journalistic resources) that will be...
View ArticleNew look for Kiwiblog
After a decade or so of the same design, we’ve done a refreshed look for Kiwiblog. Thanks to Rachel and the team at cre8d design for the work in doing this. Also thanks to the Inspire Net team for...
View ArticleBlog Stats
I don’t check blog stats very often nowadays, as Kiwiblog is a hobby, not a job. But I saw another blog post on their monthly stats so I went to check out the stats at Open Parachute to see what the...
View ArticleKiwiblog moving to The Press Council
Stuff reports: People unhappy with digital stories run by the country’s six most biggest broadcasters will soon be able to take their complaints to the New Zealand Press Council. The broadcast members...
View ArticleMy 1st term prediction that Key would go after eight years
A friend just brought to my attention, this blog post which I made in 2011, during National’s first term: And if National does manage to win a second and third term, then I do think that John Key could...
View ArticlePress Council decision on complaint against Kiwiblog
CASE NO: 2639 ADJUDICATION BY THE NEW ZEALAND PRESS COUNCIL ON THE COMPLAINT OF TANYA TOAILOA AGAINST KIWIBLOG FINDING: NOT UPHELD WITH DISSENT 8:1 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED BEFORE DECEMBER 18, 2017 Overview...
View ArticlePredictions for 2018
Once again I emulate the annual Fairfax predictions, with my own. Here’s my 20 for 2018: NZ First will be on or below 5% in most public polls in 2018 Bill English will remain National Party Leader By...
View ArticleKiwiblog tree tracker mentioned in Parliament
From Hansard: Jenny Marcroft: How can members of the public and Kiwiblog readers track progress towards the 1 billion trees target? Hon SHANE JONES: We have a new website. That website is being...
View ArticleQuicker moderation
For the last 15 years or so, I have tended to not delete comments that are overly nasty or abusive, but hand out strikes and eventually suspensions to commenters. This has had the benefit of publicly...
View Article15 years of Kiwiblog
15 years ago I launched Kiwiblog with my first post on 27 July 2003. Since then Kiwiblog has had: Over 40,000 posts Over 2.09 million comments Over 75 million visits Over 7,100 photos Not bad for a...
View ArticleSpam and comment issues
The problem with commenting appears to have been because my anti-spam service Akismet stopped functioning because they are no longer free. They hold comments while they check them if they are spam,...
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Correction and Apology
On March the 14th I blogged on how I thought the Operation Burnham inquiry is looking to be a waste of time in response to a Stuff report that Deborah Manning and Nicky Hager were critical of the...
View ArticleKiwiblog content and comments
As with other online platforms, Kiwiblog has been considering what changes in restrictions on commenting are appropriate in light of the terrorist attack in Christchurch. This blog post is to update...
View ArticleContent survey
While I still manage to author five or so posts a day on Kiwiblog, relatively few of them are the longer analytical posts I used to do more frequently. Part of the reason for this is simply competing...
View ArticlePaid Content Survey Results
Thanks to the 1,150 readers who responded to my survey on potential paid content. The content that was deemed of most interest (moderate to great) in order was: Regular data posts on how NZ is doing...
View ArticleDonations and Subscriptions
You can now donate to Kiwiblog. Such donations are entirely voluntary of course, but many people indicated they are happy to contribute. One reader phoned me up after I posted about the economics of...
View ArticleThank you
Around 500 people have donated to Kiwiblog or subscribed to my Patreon. I’m very humbled and appreciative of the support. I am very motivated to increase the number of analytical and data intensive...
View ArticleKiwiblog is 17 years old
Kiwiblog turned 17 today. The first ever post was 26 July 2003. There have been 44,650 posts and over 2,560,000 comments to date. I did a big party for Kiwiblog’s 10th birthday party. Am unsure...
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