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Posts from 2004 to 2017. This was a personal blog during a fairly chaotic decade in independent publishing — some of it tech commentary, some of it Australia, some of it ephemera. It’s kept here in full for anyone who arrives via an old link.
Current writing lives at SiliconANGLE.
The iRack launched
This is clever:
AuctionAds looking good
I’ve been watching with interest the launch by Jeremy Schoemaker of AuctionAds , a sort of eBay meets Adsense product with ads like this: I’ve held of signing up until now because I was waiting to be convinced by some hard proof that they convert competitively, and it now looks like EarnersBlog has some proof. […]
Organising Information
Just wrote a post at 901am on the latest efforts by the Chinese Government to further censor blogs and remembered that I’d read an article in the last week of so about how the censorship regime works in China. Thanks to the wonders of Web 2.0 I found the article in my BlueDot feed. OK, […]
New Wii commercials
Looks like the emphasis is moving onto Mii creation. In a house of 3 people we’ve got at least 10 Mii’s on our Wii now, the golden child loves setting them up, although name choices such as xcgddc are interesting…I’ll have to work on his typing 🙂
Is Sensis driving traffic to Yellow Pages by stuffing White Pages?
Anyone tried a business search lately on whitepages.com.au? Where as once the site was a great resource for finding contact details, it’s now as useless as tits on a bull, even when using the correct business name. Pop across to yellowpages.com.au and it works straight away. This is a fairly new phenomena, certainly I’ve noticed […]
New Crowded House to debut in the UK March 19
From the official Crowded House mailing list: Having spent the last couple of weeks in the studio, Crowded House are keen to try out their new line-up live in front of their fans. Neil Finn, Nick Seymour and Matt Hart will be joined on stage by new drummer Matt Sherrod at the Thekla Social in […]
PayPerPost and Robert Scoble
I’m nearly at a loss in describing this, other than to reiterate what I’ve said previously: Robert Scoble speaking at a PayPerPost gig lends his credibility to the folks at PayPerPost, shots as follows from the main page at www.postiecon.com: They’ve certainly got the slick slimy greasy marketing part down pat. Tags: PayPerPost, […]
Life is Short
I was all prepared to post today about how living in the fastest growing part of Australia (officially) is becoming a pain, even if the growth figure of just under 10,000 extra people in 5 years came off a low base of 50,000. Every day or two I’m now having to deal with banked up […]
Standards aren’t improving at The Blog Herald
I tried to leave a comment at The Blog Herald, I was moderated or deleted, not sure, so I’ll post here. Tony LongHung at the Blog Herald writes: the linked article at The Boston Herald: For the record it was Victoria that banned YouTube videos. I’m not shy of writing the occasional sensationalist headline, but […]
Would you visit a social network bought to you by The Australian?
TechCrunch bravos USA Today for going down the social networking path on their website. If The Australian, Australia’s version of USA Today went down the social networking path, would you use the service? Imagine it: Glenn Milne could serve the virtual drinks, and punch the Crikey team member could be one of the interactive games […]
Australian Government to censor Bloggers, online publishers
In case you miss it, check out my latest post at 901am, prompted by today’s Crikey Subscriber email. Welcome to Communist Russia, Australian style….and no one believes me what I tell them that the Australian Liberal Party is as socialist as they come, be it in an agrarian flavour.
Ning has the coolest downtime pic
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch posts about changes to Ning. I thought I’d drop by and take a look, found this shot. Way cool, and cute as well, although what does it say about Mac users? 🙂
Don’t worry about the noise, what if they crash?
According to the SMH, Sydney residents are upset by counter-terrorism training exercises being undertaken around the Sydney CBD by Army Black Hawks…due to the noise of the helicopters. Given the safety record of these birds, if I was a resident I’d be far more concerned about the odds of them crashing and killing people on […]
I make my debut in the NSW Election Campaign
I accidently stumbled onto NSW Premier Morris Iemma’s faux-blog today at News.com.au, and read a whole pile of irrelevant rubbish about Nick Grenier helping the Debham campaign (Greiner was a pretty good Premier but as a former Liberal Party Member I always saw Fahey as the pathetic disaster in Macquarie Street, but that’s another story)…anyhow […]
A World Without America
For all the US bashing in the world, this video makes a very, very good point about the positives the United States has bought to the table. (via Hot Air)
The Simpsons Movie
Its been going 18 years…I’m getting old! Trailer for the Simpsons Movie below, enjoy. Tags: Simpsons, Simpsons Movie
Applications open for inclusion in my Bluedot feed
I’ve discovered today, much to my own satisfaction, that at least one person reads my Bluedot feed. It’s not by any stretch of the imagination a Robert Scoble style link blog, but having said that it does probably share a few attributes. It’s an eclectic mix of my daily reading, sometimes a couple of links, […]
I’m not suppose to blog this
Geek Entertainment TV: Wii Fight. If you watch the intro, you’ll understand the title of this post 🙂 On Wii’s though, my 4 year old takes me to points in Wii Boxing, and he kicks my backside in bowling, he even bowled a 180 the other day! Time to start working out I guess 🙂
The sound of email silence.
One problem solved. As I mentioned in (possibly my last) weekly column at The Blogging Times this week, I’ve had to spend money on infrastructure, another box (dedicated hosting box) to be precise, making my sum total of boxes to 3. The problem I had was the new box wasn’t provisioned until yesterday (Tuesday) lunchtime, […]
Earth to John Howard: shut the f*ck up
I’m no Howard hater, I was a long term member of the Liberal Party (until 2005), I wept when Howard was elected in 1996 (mind you, it could have been the beer, and the fact I hadn’t slept for 3 days prior), I’ve worked on marginal and non-marginal Federal Campaigns since, twice as a staffer, […]