Overzealous spamtrap
Hi folks, for the last few days Akismet has been eating legitimate comments, and since it’s usually so reliable I’ve not bothered to check. So I’ve just released them all. Thanks to Neil for letting me...
View ArticleA Weird Request.
Some readers may have taken note of the fact that there is an alternative blog awards competition underway, created because the Qantas Media Awards blog category has become a bad joke. In a comment...
View ArticleA Quarter Million Page Views.
In the scheme of all blog things, it is a small milestone but still worth a mention. Yesterday we passed 250,000 page views. It has been 18 months since KP started up, and we have built a steady...
View ArticleI write like…
Via PC, a nifty tool: feed it some text and it tells you who you write like. From a more-or-less random sample of my writing on this site, more than 50% comes back telling me I write like David Foster...
View ArticleHello tworld!
With the arrival of my second child, my time just got more valuable. When better to engage in a medium which brutally enforces parsimony? (You can now follow me on twitter. No guarantees as to...
View ArticleEvaluating the KP debate experiment.
The results of the first attempt to host a debate between a right-focused blogger and left-focused blogger here at KP have been decidedly mixed. The idea was to show that reasonable people with...
View ArticleThe masculinisation of this blog (or how it became a pissing match).
Over the past few months my partner has observed that KP has increasingly become a boys club. Part of that, she notes, is that I write about security things and boys like guns and war, so tend to...
View ArticleBlog Link: Ending one chapter and starting another.
Its the end of days for me in one sense, but perhaps the beginning of something new in a few months or so. More details on the latter prospect as it develops.
View ArticleUnattributed paraphrasing as unspoken flattery?
From time to time I read bloggers who complain that there work is stolen by MSM “repeaters” and repackaged under the repeaters’ by-line or in a story under their name. This form of plagarism is hard to...
View ArticleFelizes Fiestas y Prospero Ano Nuevo a nuestros lectores.
I am spending Xmas in Otago with my partner’s family and just wanted to wish our readers the best for the festive season and a very happy, healthy, prosperous and productive New Year. KP has built a...
View ArticleBeginning the end in the Little Red Dot.
This weekend I return to SG for one more semester of teaching and research. It marks the beginning of the end of my stay in this interesting–some might say remarkable–SE Asian country, as I will return...
View ArticleWho are the non-geriatric NZ Right thinkers?
OK, you knew this was coming. In the interest of ideological balance, or better yet, just because I am curious, I would like to ask readers who the under-60 Right thinkers are. Given that the Left...
View ArticleTwo year review.
A little over two years ago KP was launched. It started as the brainchild of Anita and Jafapete, who then invited me to join. The idea was to have a non-partisan, avowedly “intellectual” moderate Left...
View ArticleThe countdown (to the return) begins.
As an antidote to some of the heavy discussion occasioned by Lew’s recent posts, I figured that I would interject with a mention that two weeks from today my partner and I return to NZ. The definitive...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day.
Is the global “Occupy” movement a genuine grassroots mobilisation with revolutionary potential or is it bound to fizzle out, be coopted, voluntarily moderate its demands or splinter into myriad fringe...
View ArticleAnother KP milestone.
Around 9PM last night KP reached 500,000 unique page visits. That comes a little under two years after we started up (Jan 2009). It is not much in the grand scheme of things but as a niche soft-lefty...
View ArticleSleepytime.
When I moved to NZ in 1997, one happy aspect that I had not considered prior to arrival was that I was headed back to the Southern Hemisphere. That meant that Xmas and New Year’s are summer events...
View ArticleBlog envy or blog petty? Corrected Version.
A fellow named Andrew Geddis posted on another NZ blog a post about electoral reform in which he takes a swipe at KP for not having “dirt under its fingernails.” I do not know this fellow, and he...
View ArticleSomething to read: Rise of the neo-crusaders
I have been very scarce, again, and I will continue to be for at least a couple of weeks. In addition to cyclical work commitments that take up all my thinking and writing energy, my daughters have...
View ArticleEnd of Year Review.
Since it is the season to take stock and make predictions, I will join the self-absorbed blogging hordes in summarizing KP’s year (as opposed to pontificating about the 2012 universe or what will...
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