Kiwiblog

Kiwiblog

Infobox weblog
name = Kiwiblog


imagesize = 250px
caption = Screen shot of Kiwiblog, 16 March 2008.
political_affiliation = National
website = [http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/ Kiwiblog]

Kiwiblog is a popular New Zealand centre-right politics blog written by David Farrar.

Kiwiblog is one of the most widely read blogs in New Zealand. The National Business Review has stated that "Any realistic "power list" produced in this country would include either Farrar or his fellow blogger and opinion leader Russell Brown."cite web|url=http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=19070&cid=39&cname=NBR+Comment|publisher=National Business Review|accessdate=2007-09-21|date=20 September 2007|title=Politicians will be haunted by their past on internet|author=Ben Thomas and David W Young|] In August 2006, the then National Party leader Don Brash commented on the blog [cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3760764a6160,00.html|accessdate=2006-08-11|title=Blogging a one-off for Brash: 11 August 2006] .

The blog was created by Farrar in July 2003, on the instigation of then prominent New Zealand blogger Gordon King.

ee also

* New Zealand blogosphere

References

External links

* [http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/ Kiwiblog]


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