Blogging in New Zealand is dominated by a community of around 600 blogs that comment largely on New Zealand politics, society and occurrences.[1] One list of over 200 "author-operated, public discourse" blogs in New Zealand (ranked according to traffic, links incoming, posting frequency and comments) suggests New Zealand blogs cover a wide range of ideological positions but lack female contributors.[2] Blogging is an active part of the media of New Zealand.
Some personal blogs have been around since the mid 1990s,[3][4][5][6] but there are now blogs about cities,[7][8] science,[9][10] law,[11] travel[12] and fashion magazines.[13][14][15] Political bloggers include current and former party apparatchiks such as David Farrar (Kiwiblog), Jordan Carter,[16] Peter Cresswell[17] and Trevor Loudon,[18] and journalists and commentators such as Russell Brown[19] and Martyn Bradbury.[20]