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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.
Whois.sc renamed Domaintools.com
My favourite domain tool online: whois.sc, have been renamed to domaintools.com with a redirect. Good on em…I think, but I already miss the old fashioned whois.sc service.
Podcasting, MP3 Players Stealing Radio’s Audience
Gotta love these stats. And it’s true. Aside from playing Club977 on the dedicated PVR box when I want to listen to some 80’s music, I’m listening to podcasts….well I was before the iPod got packed in a box…anyone know what box it’s in 🙂 Podcasting News: 27% of people 12-24 attribute their reduced use […]
The Scoble Bastard Card
OMG!!!! I can’t stop laughing! and the best:
Catfight….catfight….J-Cal v Denton!
I couldn’t help but call it this way, this quote from Jason Calacanis (unfortunately I think I signed away all the rights to cute pictures of cats doing kungfu when I sold The Blog Herald). Denton calls out SixApart. I’m so glad I trusted Brian when he insisted that we create Blogsmith as the foundation […]
Eponym: another new blogging service
Steve Rubel points to eponym, another new blogging service, although Steve hypes this one as a SixApart competitor. It looks nice, and the blogs look a bit like MT blogs, which is interesting. There are what…100’s of these services out there now. It’s not a market I’d be looking to enter.
Bugger….Mena Trott vs Scientology
Mena’s far, far braver than I am. And I’ll heap praise on this one…I hope SA’s lawyers are ready, but good on you Mena for having bit of fun…it’s just a bit…what did they say in Yes Minister…courageous…to do such a thing: Mena: Hey, did you see the pictures of Tom Cruise at Yahoo? Ben: […]
When you are away, stuff happens
For those who aren’t aware, I’m laying decking and floorboards this week, and most likely into next week at this stage, so I’m pretty much going to be MIA. Just interesting though. I haven’t read my feeds in 2 days, and there is 45 new items in tech.memeorandum.com. The stuff I’m missing 🙂
Google rules the waves
Just reading at Threadwatch that Google has now got basically 75% of the UK search market. The figure here in Australia is close for memory. When all the so-called experts in America talk about Google they always talk about it from an American perspective, despite the fact that Google is a lot stronger (in terms […]
Is Robert Scoble being Snarky?
Robert…Robert my friend! WTF is going on. I read this post and it smells and looks like Snark. The same sort of snark you were only rallying against the other week. Now Robert, if I can scrape up enough money to go on the blog cruise in October I intend on buying you a drink…or […]
Scoble the corporate lapdog gets caught out again
Steve Rubel: Scoble is taking heat for not posting about the Vista delays for sometime. I sort of feel sad for Robert Scoble these days, mainly because he’s a man who can’t admit the truth. Sure, maybe corporate lapdog is a bit harsh (I’ve just spent 20 minutes reading Gawker Media blogs….forgive me) but this […]
Recapturing the Joy of Blogging
Darren at Problogger points to Paul Chaney on the joy of blogging. I completely understand where Paul is coming from. I’ve found that I actually enjoy alot of the other aspects of blogging as well, like site design and what not, which is why I’m spending more time doing that now with b5media and blogging […]
iPod Phone Confirmed
An Australian site, Smarthouse.com.au, has gotten the scoop: Insiders at Taiwanese phone maker BenQ say that Apple procurement executives have been talking to various Taiwanese phone makers during the past few months in an effort to cut a manufacturing deal on an iPod Phone I’m currently considering getting a new mobile phone, one with a […]
Electrically Heated Undershirts
I want this. I’m tempted to say I want the blonde as well but I’m married. An electrically heated undershirt. I ran out of money so I couldn’t afford heating for the new house, but this would be ideal for winter. Update: this post broke IE, so I’m now inserting a whoe pile of p […]
New site image
I’m doing a bit of a Dave Winer and changing the site image. The new image is Declan and I at swimming lessons about 4 weeks ago. I’ve since got a new bleach so there is no dark roots, I’m totally blonde now 🙂 Update: I should find a way of rotating the image, maybe […]
Shai visits Tasmania
Shai has been to Tasmania. It’s one of the few places in Australia I’ve never been. You know, unlike the rest of the world, going “overseas” is a much bigger deal for Australians. Aside from the fact that it’s whole lot longer to get there, there is a different thought process here. Because we are […]
Is duncanriley.com the new Blog Herald?
I’ve had about 10 people say this to me in the last week. Simple answer is no. For starters I’m actually having fun writing here. Real fun, like I use to have once upon at time with The Blog Herald itself. Towards the end it became too big for me to manage. At times writing […]
Perez Hilton, Lindsay Lohan: the new blogging elite?
There’s something deeply disturbing in seeing a blogger in this position. I suppose it harks back to the journalism side of things when we see a reporter becoming the reported. And yet Mario (Perez Hilton) seems to have done just that, and continues to make friends with the A-Listers he writes about. A note for […]
The ALP plan to censor the internet
And I thought the Federal Liberal Government was bad on the censorship front: The Federal Opposition has outlined a plan to block Internet pornography reaching home computers. Opposition Leader Kim Beazley says a Labor government would introduce laws requiring Internet service providers to offer a “clean feed” without pornographic and violent sites. Mr Beazley says […]
Phil Sim proves the part RSS feed argument
I’ll leave it to Phil: On the weekend, I posted a little tiny post about the new theme I just adopted. I was absolutely blown away when I logged in on Sunday to find that it was about #6 in the top WordPress.com posts at that time. I sat there scratching my head trying to […]
40 million users on MSN Spaces
Latest Spaces figure from the NY Times: 40 million users. That’s 40 million blogs folks, because MSN Spaces is a blogging platform. Shame on those who still quote Technorati as tracking the entire blogosphere. Try 200 million blogs. At least.