kiwiblogblog is no moremore

Sadly, kiwiblogblog is dead.

It comes as no surprise, given the drop-off in posts and comments in recent months. The team found that they just didn’t have the time to commit to the enterprise. Many of us know the feeling.

We can but wish them well in their endeavours. And hope to see some or all of them blogging in some capacity again before too long. In the meantime we’ll miss their zany and slightly off-beat missives.

The rest of us progressive/left-wing bloggers will just have to work that much harder to cover the loss. Listen up righties — we shall!

Bye Mardypants, Cheezy, Zoster, Wat and Icky. Been nice knowing you.

Explaining the polls

Yesterday’s HoS piece by Keith Ng adds another possible reason for Labour’s slump in the polls. Ng cites VUW political scientist Jon Johansson:

“The real weakness of Clark is that there is no over-arching explanation as to what the purpose of her government is. We’ve seen this right through the three terms”

I just can’t agree with this. Most people I talk to — not a random sample of the entire population, I know, but including some moderately conservative types — speak warmly of Labour’s first & second terms.

Welcome #4,000

I got the headline up just in time to catch #4,000. Hope s/he saw it.

Time for a progress report.

4,000 views isn’t a lot compared to some blogs — all in a (good) day’s work for DPF — but this blog’s only been going a couple of months, and most of the 4,000 views have come in the last few weeks. The week just ending (at midday today) is the third with more than 800 viewers, last week being the peak with 975.

Most importantly, it’s been a lot of fun, and the feedback and comments have been great to read. But it is too much for an otherwise busy person to sustain, so I am looking for a team to form or join, and guest bloggers in the meantime.

For now, enjoy!