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By Kim on October 22, 2008
When I first discovered FiveThirtyEight.Com (courtesy of Down and Out of Sài Gòn on one of the American election threads here at LP, if I recall correctly), I thought of Nate Silver as America’s Possum. Coincidentally, there’s a profile of [...]
Posted in Blogging, Elections, Federal Elections, Foreign Elections, Politics, Polls, Sociology, Technology, The Web, USA | Tagged Blogging, chris nash, Federal election 2007, nate silver, political blogging, possum, Possum Comitatus, psephological analysis, psephological blogging, psephology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Kim on October 6, 2008
Spring must be the season when people turn their minds to starting blogs, or at least spring 2005 was when some excellent people did. It’s the three year blogiversary for both Pavlov’s Cat and Hoyden About Town. Warm salutations and [...]
Posted in Blogging, Life, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Blogging, blogiversary, blogocracy, blogocrats, blogosphere, Christian Kerry, Crikey blogs, Hoyden About Town, loud condemnation, new media, News Limited columnists, Ozblogosphere, Pavlov's Cat, political blogging, public sphere, Sociology, Tim Blair, tim dunlop, trollblogging |
By Idiot/Savant on October 4, 2008
The New Zealand election is still in a phoney campaign, with the parties only just beginning to launch their campaigns. Which gives me more time to fill in the background. Deborah has already done an excellent beginner’s guide to MMP, [...]
Posted in Elections, Foreign Elections, International, Politics | Tagged MMP, New Zealand election 2008, NZ election 2008, NZ election blogging, political blogging |
By Phil on September 30, 2008
I thought I’d do this quick post to note the passing of Tim Dunlop’s Blogocracy Blog at News Ltd. This will be the last weekend open thread; in fact, it will be the last thread of any sort here at [...]
Posted in Blogging, Media | Tagged Blogging, blogocracy, blogosphere, blogs, political blogging, tim dunlop |
By Idiot/Savant on September 25, 2008
Seven weeks out, and the New Zealand election campaign has yet to really get under way. While the date has been announced, Parliament is still sitting (under urgency, to get through a raft of Treaty settlement legislation and administrivia which [...]
Posted in Elections, Foreign Elections, International, Politics | Tagged New Zealand election 2008, NZ election 2008, NZ election blogging, political blogging |
By Idiot/Savant on September 15, 2008
As some of you may be aware, New Zealand is having a general election on November 8th. Over the next eight weeks, I’ll be blogging it on and off here, with the aim of informing people what the hell is [...]
Posted in Elections, Foreign Elections, International, Politics | Tagged Clark government, Helen Clark, MMP, New Zealand election 2008, NZ election 2008, NZ election blogging, political blogging |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 15, 2008
I’m delighted to announce that Idiot/Savant of No Right Turn will be guest blogging the New Zealand election for us (and watch this space – there may be other NZ guest bloggers joining us). As Kim noted on Friday night, [...]
Posted in Blogging, Foreign Elections, International, Media, Notices | Tagged blogosphere, Canadian election 2008, Clark government, Helen Clark, Labour government, New Zealand election 2008, NZ election 2008, NZ election blogging, political blogging |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 15, 2008
I wasn’t the only person to notice on Friday night that Possum, The Poll Bludger and Andrew Bartlett (among others) popped up on a new blog platform at Crikey. One take on this move from Duncan Reilly – writing at [...]
Posted in Blogging, Media, Politics, Sociology | Tagged andrew bartlett, Australian blogosphere, australian media, Blogging, Crikey, Crikey blogs, independent blogosphere, Larvatus prodeo, LP, media analysis, political blogging, sociology of blogging, sociology of media, The Poll Bludger |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 11, 2008
As Kim mentioned the other day, the Future of Journalism roadshow is coming to Brisbane on Saturday, and I’m speaking on a panel at 2pm called “Bloggers: amateur netizens or professionals of the future?”… Full details of the program are [...]
Posted in Blogging, Brisbane, Media, Notices, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Axel bruns, Blogging, blogosphere, cultural studies, fairfax sackings, future of journalism, future of media, margaret simons, mark day, MEAA, media studies, MSM blogs, News Limited blogs, political blogging, public sphere, quality journalism, Sociology, sociology of media, sociology of work, Walkley Foundation |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 10, 2008
Although aspects of his critique are tentatively sketched by his own admission, Jay Rosen has hit more nails than he’s missed with his analysis of the significance of the Sarah Palin veep selection by the McCain campaign. Rosen’s article is [...]
Posted in Blogging, Ethics, Foreign Elections, Media, Polls, Sociology, USA, Women | Tagged Alaska, american election 2008, Andrew Perrin, barack obama, blogosphere, bridge to nowhere, cultural studies, Culture Wars, Democrats, earmarks, electoral behaviour, Gary Kamiya, George W. Bush, GOP, Jay Rosen, John McCain, Karl Rove, netroots, political blogging, political sociology, political strategy, Polls, Republicans, sarah palin, Sociology, sociology of media, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 4, 2008
I was going to write a post last night about the demos in Minneapolis during the Republican National Convention and the extraordinary levels of repression and police violence, but tiredness got the better of me. But never mind, tigtog’s been [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Foreign Elections, Media, Photography, USA | Tagged american election 2008, blogosphere, citizen journalism, civil liberties, freedom of speech, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, Lindsay Beyerstein, photojournalism, police violence, political blogging, poor people's march, protest march, protests, Republican National Convention, state repression, US election 2008 |
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