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Hitwise Rankings

October 27th, 2004 at 5:25 pm by David Farrar

Alan M kindly e-mailed me the Hittwise newsletter for October as I got a mention. It seems for the last two weeks this blog has been the second most popular local political website. The ACT website was in third place and Greens in first place. I am surprised a blog would be beating official party sites. Does anyone have the full top ten?

“New Zealanders are also turning to the Internet for local political news, views and updates. The most popular local political website this week is the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand’s site (www.greens.org.nz), rising from 3rd the previous week, and from 5th position in the last week of September. The site is the 445th most popular New Zealand website, a notable increase from 633rd in the last week of September, while in recent daily statistics it rose to 386th on October 11. When compared against political sites from around the world, the Green Party’s website ranks 5th, a reflection of New Zealand’s interest in international politics.

Occupying the 2nd position locally for the second week running, is David Farrar (www.kiwiblog.co.nz), another political blog offering frequently updated news, views and links of a political nature; while in third position is the website of Act New Zealand (www.act.org.nz), falling from the number one spot it held the previous two weeks.

With important political events on the horizon, the Internet is proving a viable place for individuals, and also political parties and organisations to express ideas and share information. Internet users are increasingly turning to the web for information about politics and current events, and are also using it as a platform to express their own views.”

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9 Responses to “Hitwise Rankings”

  1. Hawk Says:
    October 27th, 2004 at 6:17 pm

    I don’t know if it’s that surprising – political party sites often don’t have enough content changes to keep people returning, whereas a dedicated blog audience can come back two or three times a day (or is that just me?!)…

    One thing I recall about the NZ arm of Hitwise (I had several discussions with them before they pulled staff from Auckland) was that these stats only counted the traffic from NZ ISPs. Do you know if that’s still the case? Add in US/Australian traffic, and I imagine things could change (in favour of blogs) quite a bit… :)

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  2. Adolf Fiinkensein Says:
    October 27th, 2004 at 6:43 pm

    Intereesting comments Hawk. My own experience is that I feel “dudded” by the MSM. The various weblogs, left and right, give me the sort of intelligent commentary (apart from poor old ztev)which no longer is provided by the extravagantly paid idiots like Holmes who call themselves news people. The fact is they have left a wide open gap for the blogosphere to fill and they will pay the price for their short sighted pursuit of ratings by way of sensationalism and their lack of objective and balanced commentary. People simply will wake up and go elsewhere. CBS will die and so will RNZ and TVNZ. New life, in some form or other, will replace them.

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  3. Nigel Says:
    October 27th, 2004 at 7:15 pm

    Personally I think blogs are fast becoming the modern day Political Editors with Main Stream Media proving the content, there is of course some local content and cross linking / original stories. But primarily for me anyway it’s a focused shortcut to stories of interest which I’m not really sure the Main Stream News outlets can follow ( or should, if they are to at least give the impression of objectivity ), the NYT Op-Ed’s on steroids :) .

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  4. David Farrar Says:
    October 27th, 2004 at 10:28 pm

    I am shocked by how lacking the MSM is. One gets almost a whole new world on the Internet with blogs and news sites. If one just went off NZ TV and Press, one would have no idea that for example the missing arms in Iraq have been known about for months and may even have happened pre invasion.

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  5. sagenz Says:
    October 28th, 2004 at 5:41 am

    Hawk gets it right. I would far rather read your hyper topical views on what is happening politically than the rarely updated and anally worded press releases and speeches that are the fare on mainstream sites. you will recall how well the nocrap website did 5 years ago in the sort of pre blogsphere.
    for an exact comparison try reading rodney on press release and rodney on blog

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  6. David Farrar Says:
    October 28th, 2004 at 8:28 am

    Heh heh the nocrap site was good fun. I can’t believe the powers that be let us away with doing that. Not that I had anything to do with it, of course!

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  7. darkness.network Says:
    October 28th, 2004 at 10:07 am

    Old Versus New

    This was going to be a comment on David Farrar’s site, where there’s a discussion about the boredom that (for…

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  8. Hawk Says:
    October 28th, 2004 at 10:12 am

    I was going to make another comment, but it turned into a lengthy post all of its own…

    To summarise: It’s easier to let media tell us what to think than to challenge it and think for ourselves. MSM sucks because it tries to please everyone and doesn’t contain debate. Online media (narrowcasting) is great. :)

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  9. sagenz Says:
    October 29th, 2004 at 9:35 pm

    time to bring it back? what is your email btw

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