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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.
Jessica Alba in Buddha T-Shirt
This pic via The Bastardly:
The pic says it all!
FeedBlitz takes Angel Investment
Feedblitz, a Web 2.0 startup that converts RSS into email alerts, has announced they’ve take Angel Investment from Tom Evslin. To quote Evslin on Feedblitz: In business terms, what FeedBlitz does is make the content of RSS feeds accessible to the great mass of web users who have no idea what RSS is and couldn’t […]
Spam Matters, only if you use Microsoft products apparently
ACMA has released the new tool in the fight against spam: spam matters, but apparently it only matters if you use Microsoft software because it only supports Outlook and Outlook Express. As a Mozilla Thunderbird user, I’m apparently not wanted. Oh well, ACMA is an evil organisation that stifles free speech and helps protect the […]
Dogon: Tim O’Reilly responds
Tim O’Reilly responds to the criticism over the C&D to a not for profit organisation daring to use Web 2.0 in their name. I won’t repeat what he says, but there was one point which I found amazing: At O’Reilly, we’ve even had to send a cease-and-desist letter once, to a company that was publishing […]
Australian TV moguls still don’t get the future of TV and computing
I don’t use IceTV myself, because they don’t offer a regional WA guide, but this company is doing a great job in making programs like Windows MCE more usable by providing a EPG, something that you just cant get in Australia, despite the fact you can pretty much get free EPG’s everywhere else in the […]
Why you can’t trust TV
This is hilarious! From the SMH: An Australian military commander has tried to ensure truth does not become a casualty of conflict in East Timor, but embarrassed a TV network in the process. Australian commander in East Timor Brigadier Michael Slater appeared this morning in a live cross from Dili to the Nine Network’s Today […]
Tall Poppy Syndrome, Mike Arrington, and how not to handle criticism
A fair bit of controversy about over allegations that Mike Arrington of Tech Chruch fame takes kick backs for favourable reviews. I don’t know the basis for these rumours, and I’m only an occasional Tech Chrunch reader, mainly because I personally find that Mike Arrington’s reviews tend to (usually) be nothing more than blind cheering […]
9rules no longer involved in Sex Network
Blog Network Watch reports on the setup of the SexNotWork blog network, and that Paul Scrivens, and others from 9rules, are no longer invovled in the network.
Google Video Ads need some work
Spotted at Hollywood Tuna: a Google Video Ad. One small problem though, at that’s the buffering rate. If you are going to expect people to click on and view video ads, you are going to want them to pretty much work from the moment the play button is clicked. The buffering time on this ad […]
Michael Jackson loves orphans, particularly the little boy ones….
Somebody at News.com.au has a very wicked sense of humour: and then there is the photo and captions: Let’s just hope they didn’t leave him alone with any of the little boy orphans. Tags: Michael Jackson
Google Crawling AdWords Landing Pages for Quality
At long last, it looks like Google might be (at least a little bit) cracking down on made for Adsense sites, in this case those who get their traffic using Adwords. From Threadwatch: Google is launching a spider named AdsBot to monitor AdWords landing page quality. Sometime in the coming weeks, a new AdsBot crawler […]
Alien in duck
We kid you not on this on: the picture is an x-ray of a injured mallard duck. Writes the SF Chronicle: As if crop circles weren’t proof enough that extraterrestrials are among us, an alien has now been found in the stomach of a duck. That, at least, is the conclusion reached by workers at […]
AdSense changes default Ads to Borderless Ads
Darren reports at Problogger that Google’s AdSense has changed default Ads to Borderless Ads. Wise thinking from the Google team. Tags: adsense
The Nanny for Congress
Only in America 🙂 From City Rag: Fran Drescher did not mince any words in talking about her interest in a pursuing a career in politics on the Howard Stern show this morning. Straight from Fran’s mouth, she’d like to become a Senator or Congresswoman for the state of New York. Sad really. I suppose […]
Technorati AP deal win-win for bloggers
Great news for all bloggers, with a deal announced by AP with Technorati that will see links to blogs citing AP stories provided to all newspapers that subscribe to AP. From an AP story at Macon.com: Technorati will search blogs for postings that include links to AP stories. Links to those postings will be available […]
Free Wireless for Americans
What a brilliant idea, from ISP Planet: M2Z’s goal is ?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?Ǭ¶ provide free high speed connections to 95 percent of U.S. consumers without any recurring fees. This is a grand undertaking.” -M2Z FCC request Kleiner Perkins, history’s most successful venture capital firm, is backing John Muleta and Milo Medin’s offer to unwire the entire United […]
SixApart getting into a bit of strife over breast feeding
Valleywag reports SixAparts Live Journal team is in battle with breat feeding advocates over images on LJ blogs showing breast feeding. I’m male, so I’m not even going to go near the whole breat feeding in public issue, but I’d share this advice: banning pictures of a totally legal act undertaken by mothers and their […]
Text Link Ads Calculator
Patrick and Andy over at Text Link Ads have announced the launch of the Text Link Ads Calculator, which can be viewed here. Very handy tool if you’ve ever wondered what sort of money you can get from TLA. Certainly I’ve been having a lot of success with them lately, both personally and with b5media, […]
bebo raises $15m
Social Networking remains very, very hot. Just a day after the E-Commerce Times ran this story about kiddies starting to turn away from MySpace because it’s become a bit to mainstream, and that they are moving to sites such as bebo, Paid Content reports that bebo has just raised $15 million in VC from Benchmark […]