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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.
More on the SMH article
Here, here and here as per the links in at Tech.Memorandum.
Riley gives in: buys an iPod
Yep, I’ve finally succumbed and bought an iPod, a little 1gb iPod Nano. She who must be obeyed will be annoyed. Music? what music, it’s straight across to The Podcast Network to subscribe to some quality podcasts. On the list so far: G’day World, The Media Center Show (note to Cameron, no subscribe with iTunes […]
Bloody Stupid
The Poms ban the Australian tourism ads which conclude with “where in the bloody hell are you”. Mind you, I don’t really get the slogan, I’d think something like “where the hell are you” or “where the f*ck are you” would actually be a more accurate use of Australian English, certainly the later is something […]
Bloody hell, it works
YAW2S (yet another Web 2.0 site): http://similicio.us Odd thing is, I typed in the URL for this, my personal blog, and the list was pretty good really: People who liked duncanriley.com also liked: 1 simplenomics.com similar 1 theblogstudio.com similar 1 offbeathomes.com similar 1 evans.blogware.com similar 1 wordpress.org similar 1 theworldaccordingtomaw.blogspot.com similar 1 webusability.com similar 1 […]
Strange Google Adsense ads
I was just setting up a new template over at Supernanny Rules and I spotted this ad: I thought I must have stuffed the Adsense code up. I re did it 3 times, and yet still the same ad. It should look like this: Odd thing is, both ad codes are identical. The odd Adsense […]
CafePress.com Introduces TopicAds
This is interesting. It’s basically Tag-based contextual advertising based around CafePress’ user generated content. What will they think of next!
How long to Fold folds?
Another wacky Web 2.0 service: Fold. As they say: me no see no business plan here! and a very limited market to boot. (via Steve Rubel)
New toy, or why I shouldn’t be allowed to spend money 🙂
It was cheap: Godlyreminders. I was actually bidding on another site at Sitepoint from the same guy but missed it, and I’ve always wanted a link directory, if only to learn how they work. He dropped me a PM to see if I was interested. Still haven’t really had any time to play with it […]
Windows is stupid
But we all know that don’t we. I haven’t been able to see any of my sites with the www included for days due to some stupid Windows issue. Two lines fixed it all. Hopefully now I’m back 🙂
WP-Macros
Aarons got a new plug: WP-Macros…..damn fine idea Aaron.
Is Origami Left Handed?
Yep, the first pick of Microsoft’s you-beaut Origami has leaked (photo via Origami Portal) My question is this? is it left handed? the mouse like device is situated on the left hand side. Now I’m left handed but I use a mouse right handed, but I know other left handed people who prefer a mouse […]
Blog Explosion for Sale
And people though The Blog Herald was a big sale! Check this out. – BE is approaching 50,000 members – We have served 22 million visits via surfing blogs and millions of others across the site – BE signs up on average 100-150 new members per day – BlogExplosion has over 1 million listings in […]
Lost in moving
I’m still here…I think, although this site is still not always showing from my end after the host move. Apologies to regular readers, I’m slowly worknig on it, although one word of advice: me and cPanel don’t mix very well it would seem 🙂
WSFTP: about time
Just moving servers (again) today, I’ve got my nice new dedicated box set up at webnx, and what do I discover? that the new version of WSFTP allows server to server ftp transfers, do I don’t have to download the blog then upload it again…..about time to!
Welcome to Autumn
I just noticed it’s the 1st of March. What happened to summer? Sure, a couple of hot days, and a did spend an hour swimming yesterday at the beach (it was mighty fine I’d add), but now it starts to get cold! WTF??? weird summer, weird year 🙂
The power of thinking big
Gotta love this: Technorati v Google. I’ll give it to Dave Sifry, thinking big works, even if Technorati will never be bigger than Google in my lifetime why aim at the bottom when you can aim to be the best.
Steve Rubel is right: It’s Not About the Traffic
I called out Steve the other week about being wrong about RSS (and a whole pile of people disagreed with me…) but I’ve got to balance the ledger, so I’ve found something that I couldn’t agree with more: It’s Not About the Traffic. Writes Steve: See, anytime a blogger thinks blogging is just about getting […]
So Origami is a PDA on steroids?
so it would seem:
Verdict in cyberdissident Li Zhi case confirms implication of Yahoo!
From RSF: Reporters Without Borders said it had obtained a copy of the court verdict against Li Zhi (below), a former official jailed for eight years in December 2003, confirming that US firm Yahoo! collaborated with the prosecution, as did local competitor, Sina. “The Li Zhi verdict shows that all Internet sector companies are pulled […]
Is Mena Trott on drugs?
I promised I wouldn’t attack Mena in the future, so I’m not, saying someone is on drugs is Australian for saying something really stupid, bizarre, etc…. This from Business Week: ” think blog tools can get easier to use. Putting together a blog should be as easy as sending an e-mail. I foresee the next […]