NZBC archives
NZBC, the New Zealand Blogging Corporation, was a group blog created by a shadowy “Director General” and co-contributors Stephen Stratford, Mark Broatch and Chris Bell. It was active between Monday 27 June 2005 and Friday 30 April 2010 and, by its heyday, around 200,000 people had visited. Its mission statement read:
“Welcome to the New Zealand Blogging Corporation. We are proud to revive one of New Zealand’s fine old brands and drag it screaming from the 1970s into the internet age. The medium may have changed, but the mission remains: to inform and entertain New Zealand with unique, quality programming. We hope you enjoy your NZBC experience. Set us as your homepage and share your thoughts through the comments links or via email. The Director-General.”
Since it’s now only viewable through the Wayback Machine we’re republishing some posts from the NZBC archives on wordsSHIFTminds.
- Cultivating melancholy
Carl Spitzweg’s extraordinary 19th Century painting ‘Der arme Poet’ (The Poor Poet) hangs in the Alte National Galerie in Berlin. - Don McGlashan ‘Warm Hand’
Don McGlashan’s eagerly anticipated first solo album sounds personal, intimate and — in the best sense of the word — like a great demo. - Doll By Doll: The perfect album?
There was always something subterranean about the band Doll By Doll, but I defy you to find a more cohesive and satisfying record than this one. - Shipbuilding: diving for pearls
What elevates a pop song to true greatness? A classic that survives the indignity of a succession of indifferent cover versions to live on as an intact masterpiece a quarter of a century later might be one indicator of quality. - 50-year hangover: remembering Robert McAlmon
Robert McAlmon was driven by an uncompromising urge to publish writers who were undervalued or ignored by the big, commercial publishers. - Revisiting Hidden truths
Norman Hidden was editor of the hugely influential UK small press magazine Workshop New Poetry. - God bless you, Mr Vonnegut (1922—2007)
A poem by the late Kurt Vonnegut, Requiem.
