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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.
Making money from your blog: TLA
I’ve held back on blogging topics here at duncanriley.com, because at the end of the day I don’t want to compete with my former site, The Blog Herald, or b5media’s Problogger, but I thought I might share a little money making advertiser I’m having great success with, both with my personal sites, and with b5media […]
Bobby is as rough as guts
As part of the impending Australia TV tour, while I’m in Sydney I feel obliged to go an jump around Martin Place with a large sign for Sunrise, as many American would do for the NBC Today Show. But talking of Mel and Kochie, I also looked into attended Where are they Now, only because […]
The Australian TV tour
Yep, I’m finally got my holiday booked. I couldn’t get a passport in time (then get the Visa’s and what not) so it’s totally domestic travel for me. As much as I plan to spend some time laying on a beach, I’ve decided to go a bit quirky as well. It’s been a while since […]
Still thing Technorati tracks the entire blogosphere?
China to have 60 million bloggers by end of 2006 (reuters) China is the world’s second-largest Internet market after the United States with more than 110 million users. A survey by Chinese search engine Baidu.com put the current number of blog, or Web log, sites at 36.82 million which are kept by 16 million people, […]
Expedia caught spamming Google
SEO Black Hat blog reports that Expedia is spamming Google’s search results for terms including Viagra. I’m not sure exactly what the corporate structure is at Expedia these days, but the use to be owned by IAC Corp, the very same people that own Ask.com (previously Ask Jeeves) as well as other sites such as […]
NBC report on Blogs, but you’ve got to have IE to watch it
The CBS Public Eye blog is reporting on a NBC news story on blogging….but if you want to watch it online, don’t bother unless you’ve got IE! The story itself is pretty general….Im just annoyed that if you want to view NBC view online you have to use IE.
Canvas, just what the WP doctor ordered
Notice this great software via Aaron’s new blog, Canvas. It basically allows you to set up your WordPress blog from within WordPress, everything from layout to colours, without needing to touch any code. But it’s not a basic editor, we are talking full customisation here. Really great, easy to use stuff. I haven’t given it […]
More on Blogdesk from Johannes Oppermann
I’ve been using Blogdesk for a couple of days now, and for once in my life I can actually feel my blogging productivity increase, mainly because I can quickly copy, cut and edit an image into any blog post, to any of my blogs, along with what I’ve got to say on the story. I […]
Cowboy with a blog on the marketq
I’m sort of disappointed I didn’t see this at JOAB: But I’ll give the auction a plug anyway.
SixApart DOS attack
Lots of stories all over the web about a big Denial of Service attack aimed at Six Apart. CNet quoting Anil Dash: “Any large service tends to have a pretty constant level of attacks, but this was on a scale that I don’t think anybody could have anticipated,” Dash said. “I think it is of […]
A Weblogs Inc/ Gawker tie up?
Jason Calacanis and Nick Denton together in New York 3 May 2006. Now it’s public knowledge these two have had a love/ hate relationship for a long time. So what’s going on here? Is AOL wanting to acquire Gawker Media as well (imagine that, they’d own over 60% of the blog network media space if […]
Sphere, just another blog search engine.
All the blogosphere is buzzing about Sphere, the latest kid on the blog search engine block. Maybe I’ve become sceptical again, but I played with it for a while, its just another blog search engine, and I honestly don’t think it’s quite at the Technorati level yet. Pretty to look at, for sure, but outside […]
Latest 2web podcast with Markus Frind of Plenty of Fish
Despite the haze of the flu drugs I’ve started taking, and having my 3 year old running around the house with the same flu (isn’t it wonderful how your children love to share) I managed to participate in an interesting podcast this morning at 2web crew where Richard Giles and I interviewed Markus Frind, the […]
Public Service Announcement: Kangaroos and cars don’t mix
My new image is an important public service announcement, particularly to those who visit Australia for the first time. Kangaroo’s and cars don’t mix. Me, I’m lucky, I’ve only destroyed a windscreen and side mirror thanks to local members of the Skippy gang. My Mrs, well she’s rolled a car before, and on another occasion […]
Blog tools at Blog Desk
Darrens got a great list of Blog Tools over at Problogger at the moment, including a list of blog editing software. One struck my eye as being worthy of download: Why did Blogdesk stand out you might ask. I’ll tell you why. The image. Yep, the image directly above this text! It comes with a […]
What’s a blog and forum worth?
I sold two sites today. Weblog Empire for $1k USD and Coupon Weblog.com for $250. It took one and a half hours. Scary. Scary in that they could have been worth easily more. Scary in that even relatively non maintained sites can be worth so much. I’ve still got a long list of fun/ trial/ […]
Need food, must sell…Weblog Empire up for sale!
OK, I don’t need food but I know when I’ve reached my limit with new projects and old ones and its time to part ways with the old Weblog Empire site. I totally loved the idea of a blog link exchange but I just don’t have the time to run it or promote it at […]
Piracy worse than child pornography
The Inquirer gets it totally right. Even if you vote Republican, you’d have to start seriously considering the fact that something is extremely wrong with the current US Administration with laws such as these.
Did someone say Winter?
Nick Denton, taking the community out of Web 2.0
I was just reading Valleywag and it hit me: Nick Denton is taking the community out of Web 2.0. Why? easy: closed comments. This whole you’ve got to apply and be approved to be a commenter on his sites….well it sucks. Sure, we all know the difficulties of managing comments and the risks open comments […]