CNet reports that Sony is chasing blogger support for it’s new music video site Musicbox, by encouraging Bloggers to link to videos and even display them on their blogs (ala YouTube)….they’ve got to be joking. The same company that puts rootkits on our computers and sends C&D notices like McDonalds sells hamburgers want’s the support of bloggers! I don’t think so…at least not from this blogger.
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Younger voters show strongest support for same-sex unions (SMH):
NEARLY 50 per cent of Australians support the Australian Capital Territory’s attempts to formalise same-sex relationships, an ACNielsen poll has found….The new poll found 45 per cent of those surveyed supported the ACT laws and 34 per cent opposed them. Younger people were more likely to support the territory’s move. Fifty-six per cent of those aged 18 to 39 said they were in favour of the territory’s legislation. Support fell to 48 per cent of those aged 40 to 54 and to 29 per cent of people aged 55 and older.
I’d say when are this people going to grow up…but they have already, long live the youth of our country.
The year was 1998, and this from my old friend Laura (who is in teh middle of the pic), can you guess who is me?! 🙂 I’ll give a clue, I had hair then!
Ok, I admit, I’ve never been a big Lindsay Lohan fan, but this pic from Arieanna’s always excellent Lindsay Lohan blog makes me think twice!
Tags: Lindsay Lohan
I’m happy to note that David Krug, aka The Cowboy, has returned with a decent blog worth reading: PRblogging.com. Early days yet but I smell that the old cowboy might be back!
This from the BBC:
Arctic sea level has been falling by a little over 2mm a year – a movement that sets the region against the global trend of rising waters.
So this whole Greenhouse thing doesn’t stack up again…hmmm, interesting.
This comment at Slashdot:
The arctic icepack is melting at an accelerated rate, due to global warming. Once the ice is gone, it is no longer displacing so much water, and so sea levels drop.
Hmmmm….say no more, other than to note this interesting fact: Australia, despite not being a signatory to the Kyoto treaty, will be the ONLY country on the planet to meet it’s Kyoto targets by 2010. 🙂
Tags: Greenhouse affect, Kyoto, Ice caps
You saw Doc Searls commenting on Cam’s blog and thought (rather oddly) wouldn’t it be cool to be trapped on a desert island with Doc Searls, by far one of the great thinkers and minds of our time….which leads me to put together a list of people I’d like to be stuck on a desert Island with. Of course, there are many others I’d include, but I’d think the idea (having suffered many a corporate management course involving desert islands over the years) probably isn’t that bad, after all, why would “management consultants” charge $5k (AUD) a day for this sort of thing 🙂
3. Doc Searls
If b5media was ever to take VC funding or make a pile of money, I’d want Doc on the Advisory Board. As well as being a nice guy, he’s a thinker as well, who always challenges my thought set.
7. David Krug
Now I know some of my b5media founders are going to be upset with this, but I’ve gotten the chance to know (in part) the blogospheres “Cowboy” and I’ve found him to be a good bloke. It’s history now that he helped negotiate The Blog Herald sale, but what I see in David is me, maybe 8 years ago, before the blogosphere existed. Sure, David’s made some mistakes, he’s also said some things I could honestly throttle him for about some of my great mates, but at the end of the day David’s been a person who has admitted he’s made mistakes, he’s tried a lot of things, sure, but in my personal dealings with him, he’s the sort of guy I’d love to sit down to a drink with, and hopefully one day we will. We all have to learn, I’m 30, David’s not, with time comes wisdom, David’s only crime is he did it in public, where as I’m sure there is very few people who didn’t do it privately.
8. Cameron Reilly
Despite the fact he can’t set up an ftp upload directory for me so I can start podcasting, he’s the sort of guy I could talk politics with for a very long time. I don’t always agree with Cam, but I do appreciate that he’s pretty much non-partisan, which is pretty much where my political thinking has gone these days.
9. Nick Wilson
Every good island should have a pom, and I know no better pom than Nick Wilson. I haven’t cross his path much lately, and I really miss him at Threadwatch, but at least we could talk Cricket…and beer…and weather…and the fact that most of his countrymen are trying to move to Western Australia…well at least it feels this way, given how many poms live here now 🙂
10. This is really hard.
There are so many people I could choose. I’m tossing up Robert Scoble, Dave Winer….Dave would be 11, but I’m picking “She who must be obeyed”, because every day wouldn’t be the same without you. You are my strength, my power, my guiding light. I would be so much of a lesser human being without you. I love you Princess.
Updated: 22 March 2007 after getting a spam comment here. I must have been on drugs or something when I wrote this originally, turns out I should have trusted my gut feelings then instead of letting money blind me. You live and learn.
Amazing figures from eBay via Reuters, even more reason why we need net neutrality, because it a world without net neutrality, the eBay’s of this world wouldn’t exist:
EBay Inc. has now registered 200 million users of its online auction services, which would make it the fifth-largest country in the world if its members could form one nation, its CEO said on Tuesday.
Speaking to thousands of the company’s most loyal buyers and sellers at its annual user conference here, Chief Executive Meg Whitman said eBay achieved the milestone on Saturday.
Only, China, India, the United States and Indonesia are larger in terms of population, Whitman said.
As of March 31, the company had reported it had 192.9 million registered users worldwide, and 75.4 million “active” users in the March quarter. EBay’s biggest markets are the United States, Germany, Britain and South Korea.
Tags: eBay
An incredible story from Boston.com:
A venture-backed Waltham company that’s quietly amassed more than 650,000 Internet domain names is stepping out of stealth mode today and unveiling its plans to build a substantial Boston-area Web 2.0 business around the emerging field of “direct navigation.”
The company, called NameMedia, is being led by Kelly P. Conlin , 46, a veteran media executive who previously had been chief executive of International Data Corp. in Boston and Primemedia Inc. in New York. NameMedia has already hired 75 people in its office near Route 128 to buy, sell, and develop businesses around Internet domain names.
Yep, all those crap sites you land on with nothing but ads, and I’m not talking splogs or made for Adsense sites here, at least these guys try, I’m talking site with nothing more than ads here, have become big business, and by all accounts, if you read the Boston.com article, legitimate businesses.
Sad really that these sorts of people are able to pollute the internet this way.
And wondering why it’s getting near on impossible to get a decent domain with the word “blog” in it, or related to blogging, check this page out from the same company. Boston.com says that they are different to domain squatters. Bullsh*t. They’ve got Blogspot.net, a name trademarked by Google listed for $58,000. Now like anyone I’ve bought domains I’ve not developed yet, but I don’t make a business from it, these guys do, and they are making it harder for the little guy…
I’m having serious issues connecting to the Sydney Morning Herald this morning, anyone else? Really, really slow. Given the morning print media have no news on the historic win I’m wondering whether everyone is jumping online for news?
I did read earlier (after waiting for the page to load) that 20% of the Australian workforce is expected to call in sick to work or rock up late today as the match finished at 1am eastern…only in Australia! 🙂
