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Spotted this on Campbell Live tonight. The Wire is a new site that collects blogs from a bunch of interesting New Zealanders.

The Wire is a place for people to visit and read about the lives of interesting New Zealanders. The Wire represents a wide array of New Zealanders, from different industries and cultures, who share a vision for success within their fields. Click on their images to read about their daily lives, their interests and passions. Visit The Wire and stay in tune with New Zealand’s creative future.

Looks good. My picks are Steve Abel, Jonny Brugh and Nick Abbot.

Good to see some new blogs on the scene!

Speaking of Steve Abel, he’s released a new video in the last few days heralding the pending release of a new album too. Definitely worth a look.

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What do you use to pen a blog post? Do you write directly into your blog post form? Or do you write it in another application and bring it across when you’re done?

Well I don’t like to type into my wordpress blog. It’s too small for one thing. I’ve tried a few different things. Notetab, Notepad, Google docs all work. But today I found something better.

Writer by bighugelabs.

It is the coolest little application you ever did see. Check it out. You can save your documents, do a word count, it’s real light and fast, you can post direct to your blog, but best of all, it’s green text on black background. Fantastic!

There was an interesting post on the Celcias blog about a huge surge in awareness of climate change a while back. I’ve been wondering whether this is a trend that will continue.

I’ve always been interested in how ideas spread, especially important ideas. And I’ve always been interested in ways of tracking how widely an idea is spreading over time.

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.

So I thought I’d pop over to Technorati to see how often the term ‘climate change’ is being mentioned in the blogsphere. This handy little graph shows that massive surge talked about on Celcias. It doesn’t look like the increased interest was a permanent change but there is a definite trend.

It would be interesting to look at what was happening at the time of that big spike.

Here’s some related real time graphs.

Posts that contain "climate Change" per day for the last 30 days.

Posts that contain "global Warming" per day for the last 30 days.

Posts that contain "global Warming" And Greenpeace per day for the last 30 days.

Get your own chart!