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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.
The numbers still don’t add up 2
SEOmoz has a brilliant post researching metrics using real log file data and comparing it to available metrics. Their conclusion: “This survey represents only a tiny sampling of sites in a niche sector, albeit a relatively popular one in the blogosphere and webdev/tech space. Based on the evidence we’ve gathered here, it’s safe to say […]
From the Arse end of the world to the rest of it
Darren posts about our forthcoming trip to Toronto. Darren gets the easier of our trips. Bunbury is roughly 2 1/2 hours South of Perth, and Perth is literally at the arse end of the world…they say it’s the most remote capital city in the world, and they aren’t lying. Unlike Darren’s trip, god must of […]
Free TV?
Viidoo. This is probably illegal…but the quality is amazing. A full review at Web TV Hub (via Digg). Free US TV channels…Im sitting here watching as clear as day NBC11 from the West Coast of the States…it’s apparently warm there at the moment, not that I’ve got any idea what the temps are in Celcius..worth […]
Waroona Show
My new photo set at Flickr is my best pics from the Waroona Show. I’m going to reserve my comment on how the show was…I don’t want to be the blogger who is negative on everything, but suffice to say, the Harvey Show has less of a crowd and a similar portfolio of things to […]
Blogging Times preview
OK, fun with webcams and video, but here’s the preview for my weekly column at The Blogging Times this week which will be online shortly…and yes, interesting light affects when I have the blinds open in my office 🙂 Tags: The Blogging Times
OMFG! Does some one have an email alert bar yet?
226 unread in my inbox as I write this…and worse still there would be another hundred emails I’ve flicked through and not responded to yet. I need a Homeland Security style alert bar/ boxes thing, and I’d go to high/ red alert! On other things, I bought an webcam today…ok, so I already had one […]
More quality from Google News
Check this one out: Linking to (no direct link..I’m not giving Google juice to this page): http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/kasert/view?PostID=18545 In case it disappears: Tags: Google News
Has Chartreuse finally gone to far?
Chartreuse Reloaded is finally up. The pdf info sheet linked to on the site states there’s going to be a $9.95 monthly charge for membership, although I take it some of the “cool” kids will probably get a free pass. I wrote last week that their were no rules, and I suppose if anyone could […]
Kangaroo Sighted on Austrian Highway…damn roos
The headline says it all: Kangaroo Sighted on Austrian Highway (via Fark), and that’s Austria, not Australia. OK, so the kangaroo’s hoping down the street is a bit of a cliche of Australia, after all, you don’t see them in most cities (oddly enough Canberra is an except), but you do where I live. She […]
When VC’s disappoint, or why I’m happy Fred Wilson didn’t invest in b5media
You know, sometimes by reading a persons blog you think you get a fairly good picture of the person, and until today I had a pretty good impression of Fred Wilson. Admitedly, the guy isn’t in my Bloglines subs, but I do fairly regularly visit his blog. I’ve always thought of him as being an […]
Pandora’s Box
OK, so I’m late to the party on this one, but I’ve been spending a good part of the last week on Pandora. The sound quality is top notch, and the selection technology good to boot. Ignore the fact if you register that you’re suppose to be in the States, any 5 digits make up […]
Ummm…I’m on this weeks Blog Herald podcast
Im the guest on this weeks Blog Herald podcast. Aside from saying Ummm to often, I think I did ok, at least I held relatively held myself back when asked an interesting question towards the end 🙂
God Hates Blogs
Looks like the looney religous right isn’t into blogging because it’s evil, according to Kevin D. Denee of the Restored Church of God: Should teenagers and others in the Church express themselves to the world through blogs? Because of the obvious dangers; the clear biblical principles that apply; the fact that it gives one a […]
90% chance that Google is in talks to acquire YouTube, 10% chance it will happen
I mentioned in passing, in this post, my theory on leaks. You see, in this post I used the figure that 50% of all leaks are authorised by the company involved as either a way to talk up/ hype a launch, or as a way to market test an idea or product. I used that […]
There are no rules
Sometimes I find it’s difficult to know what to write for my weekly column at The Blogging Times, and then I just threw out the rule book. Here’s a side thought though, is there a word to describe this style of writing? Chartreuse does it best, I’m literally a pale imitation, and yet it’s somewhat […]
Al-Qaeda ‘planned Ashes attack
I’d normally make a joke about Shane Warne and drugs at this stage was this story not serious, from News.com.au THE Australian and English cricket teams were to be killed with sarin gas by some of those responsible for the July 7 attacks in London, a friend of a terrorist claims. The man, known as […]
The new Firefox is lightning quick
Just read Scoble saying that the new Firefox, currently at RC 2 is quick. He’s right, just downloaded it then, I’ve immediately noticed the different. Also a tip for Firefox users, if you haven’t downloaded it yet, get DownThemAll. From their page: “DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an […]
News.com.au in very bad taste
News.com.au reports on Lauren Huxley, a women severely attacked last year returning to the Spring Races. Simple story you might think, if it wasn’t for the caption under the picture: An alleged attack? WTF? Was it a love bite that put Lauren in hospital? Did she do it to herself? Alleged?!?! Someone call Media Watch […]
Viral Marketing 101
Credit where it’s due, Quadszilla over at SEO Black Hat might just be on to something with this post.
Big Brother is alive and well in England
The Guardian reports on a chap getting two years and eight months in prisons for the crime of “hate speech”. Apparently the goose wrote some racially offensive stuff on a website. Get this, he got an additional 6 months for possession of kiddie porn! Yep, apparently in England using racial abuse is over 5 times […]