Journeys to the Ice – New SciBlogsNZ blogger

Welcome to Matt Woods, who is now blogging at sciblogsNZ. Matt spent some time working in Antarctica on an ice coring reconnaissance expedition. His blog, Journeys to the Ice, will cover Antarctica and Antarctic science.
Matt has also started a podcast. So go to his blog and have a look. perhaps subscribe to the podcast.
SciblogsNZ must [...]

NZ blogs sitemeter ranking – January ‘10

There are about 145 NZ blogs with publicly accessible sitemeter stats on this list. Mind you I have found over 800  NZ blogs  and most of them just don’t make their statistics publicly accessible..
The blogs are listed in the table below, together with daily visits and page view numbers averaged over the previous 7 days. [...]

NZ blog ranking – RSS subscriptions 2009

To round off 2009 I have done a ranking of New Zealand blogs according to their RSS subscription counts The results for the top 100 blogs are in the table below. Results for all 780 NZ blogs on my database can be downloaded as a word file (see january-10-rss-subs). Data for this was downloaded on [...]

NZ blogs sitemeter ranking – December ‘09

I now have 135 NZ blogs with publicly accessible sitemeter stats on this list. This is about 20% of the total number of NZ blogs on my database.
There may be a few more out there, and I think I am seeing some turnover with blogs removing publicly accessible counters when remodeling thier sites..
The blogs are [...]

NZ blogs sitemeter ranking – November ‘09

So far I have found 126 NZ blogs with publicly accessible sitemeter stats. This is about 20% of the total on my database.
The blogs are listed in the table below, together with daily visits and page view numbers averaged over the previous 7 days. The data was that given by by the NZ blog ranking [...]

NZ blogs sitemeter ranking – October ‘09

Currently I have found 123 NZ blogs with publicly accessible sitemeter stats. This is about 20% of the total on my database.
The blogs are listed in the table below, together with daily visits and page view numbers averaged over the previous 7 days. The data was that given by by the NZ blog ranking tool [...]

NZ blogs sitemeter ranking – September ‘09

Currently I have found 113 NZ blogs with publicly accessible sitemeter stats. This is about 20% of the total on my database.
The blogs are listed in the table below, together with daily visits and page view numbers averaged over the previous 7 days. The data was that given by by the NZ blog ranking tool [...]

Bright future for books

I am sure this is true. It’s the details of that future I find confusing. People in the publishing industry are talking about being on the cusp of a change. Similar to that which previously hit the music industry (see Is the e-book reader a new chapter for literature?).
There’s no doubt digital formats are taking [...]

NZ blog ranks – August ‘09

Just to be different, I am providing a different type of ranking this month. After all NZ bloggers already have those provided by Tumeke and Half Done. Rather than an overall rank the table below ranks NZ blogs according to the RSS subscription counts. Data were recorded at the end of August. They are [...]

NZ blogs sitemeter ranking – August ‘09

There are now about 90 NZ blogs with publicly accessible sitemeter stats. They are listed in the table below, together with daily visits and page view numbers averaged over the previous 7 days. The data was that given by the NZ blog ranking tool on August 20th. This can be seen at NZ blogs average [...]