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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.
G’day to the Netherlands
I’ve been looking at my stats tonight. I shouldn’t, because I’m pretending not to care about them…but it’s like a drug really. I can honestly say I’ve never tried heavy drugs. I tried a little pot when I was (a lot) younger but nothing more than that. They say those heavy drugs are addictive, and […]
Now that’s a Six Pack
Yikes. Australian runner Sarah Jamieson, who got a Silver in the 1500m at the Commonwealth Games. It’s the first event I actually watched at the games on TV. I’d decided to have a break from the computer tonight. It lasted about 20 minutes. The race though was quite entertaining. The hype before hand was that […]
Chris Messina quits Flock
To me Flock is the poster child for the bad side of Web 2.0, a solution without a problem. Chris Messina says he’s leaving because basically he doesn’t like working with lots of people, or something he describes as (and I kid you not on this) the “vapor sublimation process”. Talking like this I’ve got […]
OMG! Dave Brubeck has a MySpace site! Being different in blogging
Dave Brubeck at MySpace. You can even listen to one of the greatest peices of music EVER WRITTEN. Blue Rondo a la Turk. I couldn’t help but draw a Darren style tangent though. Is 100 years time, when the people of the future look back at the music on the 20th century, they’ll remember few […]
Is duncanriley.com the new Blog Herald?
I’ve had about 10 people say this to me in the last week. Simple answer is no. For starters I’m actually having fun writing here. Real fun, like I use to have once upon at time with The Blog Herald itself. Towards the end it became too big for me to manage. At times writing […]
Perez Hilton, Lindsay Lohan: the new blogging elite?
There’s something deeply disturbing in seeing a blogger in this position. I suppose it harks back to the journalism side of things when we see a reporter becoming the reported. And yet Mario (Perez Hilton) seems to have done just that, and continues to make friends with the A-Listers he writes about. A note for […]
The ALP plan to censor the internet
And I thought the Federal Liberal Government was bad on the censorship front: The Federal Opposition has outlined a plan to block Internet pornography reaching home computers. Opposition Leader Kim Beazley says a Labor government would introduce laws requiring Internet service providers to offer a “clean feed” without pornographic and violent sites. Mr Beazley says […]
Phil Sim proves the part RSS feed argument
I’ll leave it to Phil: On the weekend, I posted a little tiny post about the new theme I just adopted. I was absolutely blown away when I logged in on Sunday to find that it was about #6 in the top WordPress.com posts at that time. I sat there scratching my head trying to […]
40 million users on MSN Spaces
Latest Spaces figure from the NY Times: 40 million users. That’s 40 million blogs folks, because MSN Spaces is a blogging platform. Shame on those who still quote Technorati as tracking the entire blogosphere. Try 200 million blogs. At least.
Saving the Merc
Dave Winer points to the effort to save the Mecury News. My problem. I went to the site that aims to save it as part of the employee buyout. No way to invest. The Mercury News is a daily read for me, be it via Google. These guys write good stuff. And yet they’ve got […]
Shaun Carney, pay attention!
Shaun Carney, pay attention!: Yaro Starak vs Tim Blair. It’s not even Darren you need to consider.
The curse of duncanriley.com strikes again.
Maybe I’m just tired, but we’ve just gone through an outage at b5media, our first big outage with our current webhosts, and it was within a week of duncanriley.com joining the server. It seems every time this site joins a server I kill the web host. I’ve nearly lost count at how many web hosts […]
del.icio.us with Skippy thrown in?
Yaro Starak is now the patron for a new Web 2.0 Australian style del.icio.us site: AustralianBlogs.com.au. It will be interesting to see what sort of market there is given the power of exisiting sites such as del.icio.us itself and others like Digg. It also might get Ben to get a move along and launch Gnoos […]
The Age gets it totally wrong.
You know, you’d think after talking to Darren the other week The Fairfax Media would get it right, but here we go again with Shaun Carney The emergence of Crikey and Australia’s most popular ?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Ǩ¬ù or, to be accurate, most frequently visited ?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Ǩ¬ù blogger, Tim Blair, who reportedly makes a small sum from his efforts, […]
The Dave Winer count down clock
This is mean. I suppose the sites title says it all, doesn’t it.
The Disingenuous Robert Scoble: one mans snark is another mans valid criticism
Dave Winer and Robert Scoble have been rallying against what they see as a rise of snarkiness amongst bloggers lately. Scoble’s most recent post here takes the argument he’s been making lately and calls it a lynch mob. Now as much as he makes a valid point in relation to the way Dave Winer has […]
2web crew Podcast No. 2
This was good fun, and interesting as well. I could have talked about this stuff for hours.
Joining the 2Web crew, or why I should keep up with email
It’s not been announced publicly, but I’ve joined the 2web crew. Nik emailed me last week with an invite and it got totally buried in amongst the 5 million other emails. For those of you interested: 2web is a group of Australian bloggers and entrepreneurs who are passionate about web 2.0. What we all have […]
Something very odd in Singapore
Apparently only 1% of young Singaporeans believe blogs, but 88% of them read newspapers and it would seem, believe them more than blogs. This from a country well known for it repressive control of free speech. Winston Smith need not apply for residency in Singapore.
The Schapelle Corby Tour
Hilarious. It might even encourage Australian tourists to visit Bali again. After all, the whole Corby thing was a circus of her and her supporters making, so the tour fits right in with the theme. (via TSSH).