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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.
Farks take on New Zealand
Apologies to my Kiwi Friends, but I just had to laugh after viewing these pics at Fark.
G’Day Prime Minister
Only in Australia🙂 A MAN who ran his boat on to rocks just metres from the Sydney residences of the prime minister and governor-general has been charged with drink driving. Sydney Water Police said they found a motor cruiser aground on rocks at Kirribilli Point with a man, woman and three children on board about […]
Crazy AdSense Experiment: Unethical But Legal $10,000/Month
Xedant has the details on how people are gaming Adsense using Adwords and made for Adsense sites. We’ve all seen them before, but these guys spell it out far more clearly for the beginner through to the most experienced online Adsense star.
Dave Winer gets it right on Feedburner
Wise words from the old man of blogging: How to compete with FeedBurner….First, I’d either do a deal with a registrar, become a registrar, or merge or partner with one. It’s absolutely essential that the user own the domain that their feed is hosted at, so that, in case of emergency, they can switch to […]
Feedpass debate rages
Lots of debate emerging over the new feed service “feedpass“, a new service that allows your feed to have essentially it’s own multi-faceted feed subscription page, mainly because they allow you to create pages for blogs you don’t own, and earn revenue off it. I won’t get into the whole copyright/ theft issue some are […]
Give me green, lots of green…..
Looks like Mike Arrington got into a whole pile of trouble whilst I was away after shafting his web designer. Lot of coverage here, here, here, here and here. Personally I don’t particularly dislike the design, the layout itself isn’t too bad, although I’m not a huge fan of some of the whitespace, fonts and […]
I’m Back!
My brush with D List Fame: Elise from Big Brother: Lots of Extra probably totally uninteresting photos coming to my Flickr account shortly….once I deal with the 1281….1282….whoops they are still downloading….emails 🙂 Tags: Big Brother
The Blogging Bomber?
Sitting in a Internet Cafe on the Gold Coast and already I’ve got my first weird travel story. Last night at Perth Airport I was pulled aside and….scanned for explosives! It was 11:30pm so I was in a bit of a daze anyway. I walked through security, no problems, then I get pulled aside by […]
Ask Duncan: Why Do You Love Big Brother?
OK, so the whole ask Duncan thing didn’t work so we’ll (I’m still open for q’s) but Darren ask’s as good question: “Why do you love Big Brother so much?” Well Darren, the short answer: I live in the Country. The long Answer: I live in the Country. Seriously though, we don’t get Channel 10 […]
Now I know American law makers are Crazy: bill to ban Blogs, Social Networking sites for under 18’s
They say only in America. And only in America could law makers, elected representatives, put forward legislation that would punish and ban those under 18 from joining Social Networking sites and blogging, whilst totally ignoring the very people they are concerned about: online predators. I suppose in a society that allows every man and his […]
Will Reciprocal links get you banned from Google
This from a Media Post Email: As Shari Thurow points out, AdSense creates A LOT of so-called search engine spam, which refers to the myriad link farms and other bogus sites appearing in natural listings that make their money off a combination of AdSense and high natural search placement. Link farming is the process of […]
Bugs Bunny in “Adware Rampage”
Reports Online Media Daily: CONTROVERSIAL ADWARE COMPANY 180SOLUTIONS AT the end of last month quietly began offering streams of two shows distributed by Warner Bros. Online. The shows–the soap opera “Deception” and the animated show “Medical Island”–were created specifically for the Web. Both programs are available online exclusively on 180solutions’ consumer site, Zango.com. Visitors to […]
ADSDAQ for blogging?
The 360 reports on a proposal to form essentially a commodities style market for advertising in the United States: A consortium of some of the biggest advertisers in the United States has plans to move the ad industry out the era of the cattle exchange and into the internet age. They’re looking for someone to […]
The Seth Godin bubble is about to burst
Every one raves about Seth Godin. Personally, I’ve always thought the hype was way out of control, and as much as a lot of what he says makes sense, I’ve always thought most of it was common sense as opposed to anything ground breaking, and perhaps very well articulated, but nothing really more than this. […]
The open ad marketplace?
Jeff Jarvis calls for Open Source advertising and metric solutions to help bring Advertisers and Bloggers together. A rather socialist suggestion from a right wing blogger I’d think. But I can’t help that think that maybe Jeff Jarvis doesn’t know enough about the advertising industry, because there is no way in hell that you are […]
Lawsuit Brings Down Agency
The irony. An ad agency tries to sue a blogger who criticised on of it’s campaigns. 1 month later the ad agency folds. From Media Post: WARNER KREMER PAINO ADVERTISING, THE ad agency that last month filed a puzzling lawsuit against a blogger for having criticized the agency’s online ad efforts, has folded. After widespread […]
Webby Awards don’t really reflect the web anymore
The winners of the 2006 Webby Awards have been announced, and it appears as though the blogosphere doesn’t exist….but of course it does, but bloggers aren’t really up for the $500 USD entry fee, and hence we get the usual corporate sites winning awards, and Arianna Huffington’s Huffington Post (not really representative of the blogosphere […]
Crikey! Blogs are dying!
Trevor Cook refers to the latest subscriber email from Australian Sh*t sheet Crikey that concludes that blogs and blogging are dying: What most realise is that blogging is the illusion of connection, publishing into a void and thus doubly isolating. Those blogs that survive will and are evolv(ing) into multi-person sites, some with collective and […]
Blog Plagiarism makes the MSM
Interesting story at Boston.com on Blog Plagiarism. Honestly I didn’t know it was a big problem, after all the real problem is just plain and simple content theft. Apparently though, some of these low lifes are getting crafty and changing names in posts. Personally I don’t see why they’d bother. Tags: Blog Plagiarism
A F*cking Australian MySpace
So where the bloody hell would you start the first country based version of MySpace, well according to Lee’s Blog: MySpace Australia. According to News Corp: The Australian divisions of multinational companies such as Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson and Toyota are expected to be approached as they have advertised on the […]