[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.
The former ACT party leader Rodney Hide often comments from within the House of Representatives[21] and Craig Foss operates a personal blog.
[29] A few weeks earlier the National Business Review had stated that, "Any realistic 'power list' produced in this country would include either [David] Farrar or his fellow blogger and opinion leader Russell Brown.
The blog's stated aim was unveiling examples of alleged incompetence by the Child Youth and Family Service (known by its acronym CYFS) of the Ministry of Social Development.
The blog remained online until 22 February 2007 when Google deleted the site, due to the anonymous blogger making death threats towards Green MP Sue Bradford because of her Crimes (Abolition of Force as a Justification for Child Discipline) Amendment Bill 2005.
On 11 January 2010, Slater published a blog post that used binary and hexadecimal code to reveal the identity of a person charged with indecent assault on a 13-year-old girl.
Some current and former bloggers have worked in or for the media industry, such as Russell Brown, Keith Ng, Tze Ming Mok and Dave Crampton.
Political scientist Bryce Edwards who maintains the liberation blog has also been a guest columnist for The New Zealand Herald[41] as has Geoffrey Miller of Douglas to Dancing.
For instance, Idiot/Savant found that neither Rodney Hide nor Heather Roy had been showing up to Parliament and consequently the ACT party had not voted in the 2006 budget debate.
[45][46] In February 2008 a blog post by Russell Brown about the Wikipedia article on Bill English being edited from a computer at Parliament received coverage in The New Zealand Herald.
[57] There are many long-running personal blogs, which have been around since the mid- or late-1990s, including Joanna McLeod (1998),[58] Paul Reynolds (1997–2010),[59] Robyn Gallagher (1996),[60] and Bruce Simpson (1995).