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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.
WIN launches Second Life Insider
Very, very cool, for a SL fan like me: Second Life Insider. Now if only I could find time to get onto SL more than once or twice a week!!!
Andy Merrett on Problogger
Andy has gone pro, and has some great, and very true reflections on what it’s like to blog for a living, I won’t repeat them all, you can read the list here, but my favourite: Time vanishes. It just goes. You?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢re up early and working, and before you know it, it?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s early evening. My story […]
Blogebrity hits the spot
Saw this story at Techcrunch the other day and it did register as being odd, but the Blogebrity team sum it up well…and BTW, it’s great to see Blogebrity back and firing regularly as well…now if only they’d expand their coverage a little bit wider… TechCrunch Bubblewatch: STD Edition Time to play everyone’s favorite Web […]
Is Astroturfing wrong in an apathetic democracy?
I’ve been reading with some interest the rise of a new anti-astroturfing campaign speerheaded by Australia’s own Trevor Cook (more here and here), but as much as I share Trevor’s, and others concerns that the act of astroturfing (if you don’t know what astroturfing is, read here) is immoral, and most likely unethical, I’m still […]
Is India the new China?
Indian ISP’s are blocking Blogger and TypePad…so much for a free and open democracy.
Arrrrrrrrr, its another odious R Web 2.0 name, this time from Odeo
Twttr, according to TechCrunch, is a Web 2.0 app from Odeo that allows you to mass spam people via mobile phone txt, and then let everyone read what you sendspam people’s mobiles with online, sort of like group sex in front of a web cam for txt, but although I don’t suggest for one minute […]
Dell HQ is actually dumber than it’s Indian Call Centres
No racism intended in the heading for this post….but you’ll know what I mean if you’ve ever tried calling Dell..but on a brighter note, according to VNUnet, Dell’s new one2one blog shares its name…with a porn site. Sh*t, haven’t these morons ever heard of a Whois lookup? Tags: Dell
Those Bastards…get it totally right!
No direct link to the post, as it doesn’t seem to be working, but Those Bastards get it totally right….incumbents always play down the financial returns in a marketplace 🙂
MT isn’t going to die, you’re just not going to see the MT brand as much
Interesting discussion over at The Blog Herald on the demise of MT compared to WordPress, and although the entire world knows I’m a massive WordPress fan these days, I’ve got to say that both Scrivs and Matt are wrong on this, wrong in that MT isn’t going to go away, indeed I’d argue that MT […]
A solution to the oil crisis?
Article here, and video following, if its legit…wow!
Whats for lunch
Shame, shame,shame.
Yahoo, Microsoft tie message knot
Good news on the IM front…now if only they could get together with eBay and link in to Skype as well, from the BBC: Users of the Yahoo and Microsoft instant messaging programs can now contact each other directly. The two firms have released software that ties the two networks into a huge community of […]
Big Brother uplate…in WA
Because BB uplate is…well…late, I haven’t watched it before, but if you wan’t to play the games…or watch it live, anywhere in the world, you can, at quiztv.com.au. It’s on roughly 11:20pm AEST to 1:20am AEST (for me, two hours behind). The unfortunate thing is that it’s hosted by Mike Goldman (??? not sure if […]
News calls in the big guns: set to dominate the Australian Internet Landscape
According to the new News Limited site perthnow (thank god I can finally get a little bit of local news on the web…given the woeful internet presence of the Worst Australian), News has appointed Richard Freudenstein as chief executive of the News Digital Media division. Freudenstein was previously chief operating officer of British Sky Broadcasting […]
Scary….thank god no one took a photo!
7am: a stumble outside in my pyjamas, my overcoat and my slippon Colorado shoes to wash ice of she who must be obeyed’s car…thank god no one had a camera handy….and yes, it’s that cold again…global warming my you know what, in the 8 years I’ve lived in Western Australia I’ve only seen ice on […]
News Corp now owns the most visited website in the US
Amazing figures from Hitwise, MySpace is now the mosted visited website in the United States….and people said it was a bad investment, got to give Rupert Murdoch credit, he certainly knows a good investment when he sees it. Tags: MySpace
Does GDrive point to a Google PC?
Coaman.ch is showing a screenshot (here) from the upcoming GDrive, Google’s online storage solution. But the shot raises even more questions: what exactly is the “Google Computer” mentioned on the screenshot? VPN-less access: Not at a Google Computer? So if we presume that Google is doing a private alpha test of GDrive across developers, exactly […]
Andrew Baron is not evil
Who’s spinning, and who’s telling the truth? I’d say watching this Amanda’s not looking some much like the victim any more. Tags: Andrew Baron, Rocketboom
Big Brother twist: Camilla wanted to be Turkey Slapped
With the storm in the tea cup still raging, Behind Big Brother reports on a as yet unconfirmed rumour that prior to the Turkey Slapping incident, Camilla was recorded saying the previous day that she wanted to be Turkey Slapped….that’s right, she actually asked for it! Puts a whole different perspective on it, doesn’t it. […]
The new Rocketboom
(via Valleywag) Tags: Rocketboom