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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.
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WordPress eating comments
Apologies to those who have commented in the last couple of hours with no luck, the WP db bug has struck again, it might have been the 15,000 odd spam comments sitting on the install causing an issue, which have since been deleted. I received a number of notifications of comments that were simply blank, […]
If your Ford wasn’t a lemon already…
It soon will be. Ask anyone who has ever owned a Falcon in Australia, including the BA, they’ll explain. I learnt after the EA, thankfully. 🙂
I’m Spiderman
Another meme, but I couldn’t help it, via Dave Winer: Your results: You are Spider-Man Spider-Man 60% Superman 40% Batman 35% The Flash 20% Robin 10% Wonder Woman 0% Supergirl 0% Green Lantern 0% Catwoman 0% Hulk 0% Iron Man 0% You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility. Click […]
Performancing and PayPerPost
It looks like Santa Claus was kind to Nick Wilson and the team behind Performancing, with news that the metrics arm of Performancing has been sold off to PayPerPost. Naturally it would be remiss of me not to offer congratulations to Nick and the team on the sale, I have little doubt that the money […]
Melbourne and the English Speaking Peoples
Back at the grindstone again after 2 weeks in Melbourne, during of which Melbourne, some would argue not surprisingly, experienced it’s coldest ever Christmas Day, some 15 degrees (celcius) and snow in the high country down to 900m (I’d note when I say 15 the wind chill factor was significantly colder again). Indeed for most […]
2006 in review
I was all ready to give a glowing valedictory to 2006, until I read Skeletor’s summation of the year that was over at The Spin Starts Here. For those of you not inclined to click on the link, here are a couple of highlights: The acquisition of YouTube by Google and News Ltd’s belated discovery […]
PS3s Being Traded For Wiis
GigaGamez reports on people trading PS3s for Wiis. Hilarious. I’ve been away from my Wii for over a week now, and I’m missing it already. Wii games are still as rare as hens teeth. I managed to pick up the last copy of the Sponge Bob Square Pants Wii game from JB HiFi at the […]
Wikiasari: yet another search engine
It’s supposedly Christmas, although you’d think it’s the silly season with news at Mashable and TechCrunch that Jimmy Wales is going into the search engine game. Just because Wikipedia was successful, it would appear as though Jimmy Wales has been drinking so much of his own Kool Aid he now thinks he can conquer the […]
Old WordPress blogs don’t seem to age gracefully
Apologies to those who were unable to leave a comment here at duncanriley.com over the last 2 days, it would appear as though the site gained a db corruption that needed a quick repair. Odd thing is though, I’ve noticed other blogs I help people out with, or a few oldies I still have, all […]
An Australian Blogging Conference
Des has the details. I was in on one of the emails prior to the announcement, looks like some great speakers lined up, free registration, and Queensland in March usually isn’t quite as hot as Queensland in February..but it will be warm 🙂 There’s also a call for sponsorship, if you’re interested Des has the […]
The WSJ called, they said it’s 2004 again.
Steve Rubel reports on Joseph Rago of the Wall Street Journal writing an Op-Ed piece stating that bloggers [are] fools that are read by imbeciles then continues that bloggers “ride along with the MSM like remora fish on the bellies of sharks, picking at the scraps.” Yikes. Some one forgot to take their happy pills […]
Maybe SixApart knows something everyone else doesn’t?
Tech Digest reports SixApart’s Mena Trott saying that Vox is winning over burnt out bloggers. I see the logic, and I understand the how, but WTF? Surely this isn’t the key target area for Vox? “People have really embraced it,” she says. “They’re saying they think blogging is fun again. A lot of people got […]
My Christmas wish: that people would either abandon Feedburner or pressure them to get it to play nicely with Bloglines
Another day, the same Chadstone foodcourt. With she who must be obeyed and the golden child catching a movie at Chaddy I’ve got some time to catch up on some reading. And what do I find? Refreshing bloody feeds. Not all of them, just the ones from people using Feedburner. Every single one of them. […]
As some one who lives in Western Australia, I welcome Fairfax with open arms
The Australian Newsagency Blog (via Trevor Cook) reports on the rumour in Crikey yesterday (which I actually saw…after having lapsed my membership for a year I signed up again for the paid version, the Christmas pack was just far too good) that Fairfax is looking at launching online news sites covering states they don’t currently […]
Cowboy buys Workboxers
David Krug has announced the acquisition of Workboxes on both Workboxes and the Hello Cowboy site, which in itself is new to me today, I’m presuming this is the name of Krug’s new consulting and marketing service. It’s an interesting name, and I mean this with all due respect, but I can’t seem to get […]
Like Meatloaf through a Straw: Understanding the Web 2.0 soap opera this week
If you’re like 99.999999999% of the population who are struggling to keep up with this weeks Web 2.0 soap opera, let me humbly present the solution to your problems. Compliments of duncanriley.com and far too long stuffing around on MS Publisher (I don’t have access at the moment to InDesign, I’ll need to fix that), […]
Skype to offer a lie detector
The Beeb reports that Skype is to offer the KishKish Lie Detector as an add-on for Skype users. It apparently analyses audio streams over a Skype call in real time and illustrates the stress levels of the other person, which in theory helps show when the other party is lying. No word on cost yet, […]
Syntagma looking good
OK, so some people are going to have some fun with the headline, but I mean it sincerely. I was cleaning up some of my sidebar links today (ok, it’s like spring cleaning in summer) and I realised I was pointing to the old Syntagma Media site, I fixed the link and thought I might […]
Click Arbitrage isn’t easy
One of my little distractions this past couple of weeks has been to dabble into the world of click arbitrage, ie: advertising via Google Adwords to doorway pages that lead to a CPA affiliate site. I’ve not put an awful lot of effort into it, but I have run a couple of ads to see […]
You know it’s nearly Christmas when…
You’ve got over 1000 unread emails and you can’t be asked cleaning them up. OK, so I’m trying now, but it’s hard to get motivated 🙂