New Zealand’s number 1 blogger (who has just marked his blog’s seventh birthday) has been spotted in the company of rock bands and film stars.
But not in person, one of the questions in TV3’s daily quiz asks David Farrar is the man behind what popular New Zealand blog?
The choices are: Public Address, Whale Oil Kiwiblog, or The Standard.
I got 7/15 but some of that was down to luck because several questions referred to films and music about which I knew little.
One of the questions I got wrong was the number of NZ Prime Minsiters who served less than one full year. I was sure there’d be more than one but the only one I could name was Mike Moore.
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Does this make you laugh Ele?
http://robertguyton.blogspot.com/2010/07/while-we-are-talking-moose.html
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Technically , The Standard would have been a correct answer too. Their obsession over everything DPF says suggests he is a motivating factor for why The Standard exists.
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7 as well, combination of flu and ignorance, with ignorance the primary cause
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My goodness that is a horrible set up for a quizz with all it bleeps and noises.
Don’t think I’ll bother with it agian
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10/15, with plenty of good firtune
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I got 12
And you forgot Sir Geoffrey?
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Sir Geoffrey – 8 August ’89 to 4 September ’90 made it past the year, just, if this site is to be believed: http://www.atonz.com/new_zealand/nz_prime-ministers.html
(Though it says Helen Clark is our current PM so maybe it isn’t).
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… and poor spelling 😦
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Well there you go I beat you in the quiz but I was wrong about Sir Geoffrey by 24 days or is it 25?
Just goes to show on a high one minute and down in the doldrums the next.
Life is a great leveller
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8 for me – on a par with what I get in the daily stuff quiz.
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As an aside… I suppose it depends what your definitions of “NZ’s Number 1 blogger” are – for a domestic focussed blog David’s probably does have the biggest readership. But he’d be the first to agree with me that “NZ’s most read blogger” is the guy at the top of this list: http://www.readwriteweb.com/about/
Richard’s blog is ranked in the top 2000 websites worldwide, according to Alexa (for what it’s worth):
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/readwriteweb.com
Whereas KiwiBlog only just squeaks into the top 70,000 websites worldwide (and Public Address does not feature in these particular measurements at all…).
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I was going on the New Zealand rankings.
Being in the top 2000 internationally is impressive, though tech topics are more likely to get a wider international readership than NZ centric one like Kiwiblog. It also has a team of writers where David is a blogger-sole with a few guest posts.
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