gatewatching

Just a quick one, but I thought it worth noting that Crikey has snagged some of Australia’s best, and some of my favourite bloggers. You can see the line-up on the Crikey blogs page. The great psephs, Possum Comitatus and William Bowe, have now gone full time over to Crikey from their respectiveformer haunts. Andrew [...]

Newspoll Tuesday has become a bit of an occasion in the Australian blogosphere. The influence of the pseph bloggers, the moments of antagonism between the blogosphere and the Oz last year, the motivation to enter into further fruitful dialogue with Dennis Shanahan, and the urge to take Dr Nelson’s temperature have meant that most of [...]

Before, during and after the last Federal Election, psephological bloggers put MSM noses out of joint. They also demonstrated the value of alternative online sources of political information to a lot of people for the first time. Although some blogs like Poll Bludger, Possum’s Pollytics, Simon Jackman and Mumble had actually been around for [...]