Xtramsn split on March 1 - here are some NetRatings stats showing what we know. msn.co.nz and yahooxtra are not showing up, but we can tell from xtra and from tv3 numbers a lot of what is going on.
Get up offa that chair and dance till you feel better - long hours spent sitting and submitting stories to Scoopit could be bad for your health. Office workers and sedentary types could be at serious risk of deep vein thrombosis - more so than on a long haul flight...
Auckland City events organiser Pak Peacock said last night’s crowd was the largest he had seen at the Domain for years. Auckland Festival patron and Prime Minister Helen Clark jointly opened the Auckland Festival, AK07 with Mayor Dick Hubbard with rallying cries of support from the crowd...
Last week the Fijian military went hunting for the authors of the blog Intelligentsiya, accusing them of accusing them of "portraying a negative image of the Interim Government". They haven't caught them yet, but their hunt has had other results...
Over the weekend, the European Union decisively took the lead in the climate change debate by committing to a unilateral 20% cut in emissions by 2020. But this isn't just a matter of domestic policy and the EU being green - this is about putting a stake in the ground for negotiations...
"This is one of the last Air NZ cookies that were given out for free on the domestic service. Collected on a flight from Wellington to Auckland last night."
Are you green? How many flights have you taken in the last year? Feeling guilty about all those unnecessary car journeys? Well, maybe there's no need to feel bad. The truth about the "global warming" myth, on Google video...
New Zealand writers have just three weeks left to enter their work in the 2007 Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Unpublished Manuscript Award. The Ashton Wyle Charitable Trust, in association with the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA), offers two national ...
The Sunday Star Times reports that the average conviction rate for rapes has gone down from 38% in 1986-1995 to 31% for 1996-2005. I would be interested to know how what percentage of guilty pleas occurred in each decade, and what the actual conviction rates for contested rapes are...
"...we made it quite clear that National wouldn’t have sent troops to Iraq, we did support the coalition of the willing and the United States ability to send troops to Iraq because we believed as I think the world believed at that time that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction..."
Manukau City Council officers inspecting a property owned by TP Field Developments Ltd found significant and un-permitted alterations. The officers recommended that the council prosecute. Manukau City has has now initiated proceedings against the Directors of TP Field Developments Limited...
A huge increase in the number of tickets issued for exceeding the speed limit by 6-10 kmh - from 311 in the year 2000 to more than 34,000 in 2006 - again raises suspicions of a ticket quota and revenue-gathering scheme by the Government, says National's Police spokesman, Chester Borrows.
It’s only a certain type of person who blogs so using the blogsphere as a measure of general consciousness is flawed. Nevertheless, there are a lot of bloggers out there, and when you look at what they are saying over a given period of time you can get a useful measure of how an idea is spreading
News surfaced recently that an editor of Wikipedia was not the prominent theologian and Professor of Philosophy he claimed to be, but rather a simple university student putting a copy of "Catholicism for Dummies" to work. Does the expose of Mr Jordan jeopardise the Wikipedia project? ...
A Salvadoran woman believed to have been 128 years old and possibly the world's oldest person, has died. Cruz Hernandez, whom national birth records show was born on May 3, 1878, in central El Salvador, passed away in her sleep on Thursday, a family friend said...
