Comments on: Missing Link Daily

By: David Rubie

David Rubie — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:07:18 +0000

John Quiggin wrote:

I must say it’s fun to live in era where the rightwing are tearing themselves to pieces,

It hasn’t even started being fun yet. It’s the hilarious historical revisionism that I’m waiting for. John Stone had a red hot go in Quadrant this month, but you wait another 12 months to see whether they can polish up JWH like they did Maggie T and Reagan. There’s an aphorism that springs to mind about polishing…

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:57:00 +0000

Having been copped a tiny amount of collateral fire in the great snark war, I must say it’s fun to live in era where the rightwing are tearing themselves to pieces, struggling to determine which section of the semi-permanent opposition is the most pure.

By: Niall

Niall — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:16:00 +0000

It’s an observation, Patrick. Nothing more and nothing less. If reading my comments gives you the irks, then I suggest you resist the urge.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:01:49 +0000

I was somewhat surprised at first by the age range at Getup’s post election Refresh Conference last December.

You were??? I know all of three people below the age of 35 who get that!! Which is out of a pretty internetty-labory bunch. Personally I can’t imagine anything more boring than a get-up conference!

By: Kevin Rennie

Kevin Rennie — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:16:15 +0000

I was somewhat surprised at first by the age range at Getup’s post election Refresh Conference last December. They weren’t all fellow seniors but it was definitely skewed in a similar way to the demographics in Peter Black’s post.

I rarely get a feeling that X and Y are on the political blogs in large numbers. The Face Space social networks are a bit different, as is their interest in political video. Facebook gives a quick way to be involved through group membership and campaign support. Baby boomers have more time for and familiarity with the written word.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:06:19 +0000

Niall, can you give up? If you are so obsessed with TimB, well, that’s your issue. But can you post about it on your own site or his, or see a psychologist, or do whatever you want to in your own space?

By: saint

saint — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:44:04 +0000

OK I confess. It was me *hangs head, shuffles feet*
I can’t even do good snark.

By: Niall

Niall — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:15:16 +0000

I can’t agree with KP labelling Blair as “Australia’s most trafficked blog”. He doesn’t own his domain as many Oz bloggers do and more than 50% of his ‘traffic’, if such a thing can be accurately defined, comes from American respondents. That Blair has the use of a domain with his name on it is no different from Tim Dunlop running his blog (or one of them) from within the News Ltd nest of domains. Murdoch owns blogocracy, per se, just as Andrea Harris owns timblair.net.

Is there a definitive method for measuring site activity, in terms of readership? I’m not sure there is. Anyway, in the final washup, while Blair may be an Australian citizen, his blog is no more trafficked by Australians than any other, I’d suggest.

By: James Farrell

James Farrell — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:12:05 +0000

Point taken, tigtog. I meant to emphasise the lack of preaching. I didn’t mean to imply that the program actively encouraged experimentation.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:05:44 +0000

without preaching abstinence

That’s without preaching “abstinence-ONLY”. Comprehensive sex education programs certainly include abstinence as ONE of the options for protecting one’s sexual health against pregnancy and STIs.

By: gilmae

gilmae — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:39:13 +0000

Gilmae suggests I link to a snarky piece about Crikey on Andrew Landeryou’s blog.

I object to this slanderous implication!