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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.
Tesltra sacks Blogger for being some what honest
Cam has a scoop. Idiots. Good help someone that they write the truth, and in this case it was only in part the truth, after all, we all know how completely and utterly up sh*t creek Telstra are as a Telco 🙂
Technorati launches Vlog, but wouldn’t it be nice if they actually focused on the core product first
Technorati has launched a daily Vlog. Great. Great way to promote the service, but I can’t help but ask the question: why spend time doing a Vlog when your rank service is still broken? Case in point: Notice the 862 incoming links down the bottom, and yet it’s ranked on 628 links? There are 37% […]
Liz Strauss joins the Opinion section at The Blogging Times…and yes, I still dig this as a business plan
Congrats to b5’s Successful Blogger (literally) Liz Strauss on news that’s she’s joined me and the party that is happening at The Blogging Times. I’ve got nothing to disclose at this point about the site, I don’t own a share in it, but I do get paid a small retainer to write a weekly column […]
Play Pacman
Ok. so Im playing with the Google Gadget things.. but this is sort of fun. The odd thing though is that the sizing doesn’t want to work…odd.
Google Gadgets
Just what the world needs, more plugins for webpages…although having said this the flexibility with some of these is pretty good.
The future of political blogging is here
I’m surprised none of the A-List picked up on this. David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative (Tory) Party in the UK has launched his own blog, and to make it more interesting, it’s a video blog at that. And dare I say, it’s pretty damn good. Sure, I’m not interested as an Australian in […]
Watching Big Brother
James Martin has launched Google WatchDog with this post. It’s too late James and Lynn. Google already is big brother, or didn’t you get the memo 🙂 Looks like another blog to add to Bloglines.
Technorati just made spam blogging a whole lot easier
Steve Rubel: Technorati Intros Smarter Blog Search Feeds Spam blogging just got a whole lot easier. Why rip a feed or two when you can just get a smart topic feed from Technorati on auto pilot and without the need for an account. OK, so they’re part feeds. Guess what, the parsing part from the […]
Germany menaced by giant bug
The Register reports on a giant bug menacing the German countryside. The really odd thing for me is that it would appear that the satellite images were scanned. Scanned? weren’t they digital images to start with? is there a giant factory of Google Earth workerbees scanning satellite imagery for our enjoyment? Odd.
Is China at War with the United States
China Attempted To Blind U.S. Satellites With Laser: Defense News.com If China has indeed fired lasers at US Satellites, then wouldn’t this be normally considered an act of war? If the US is indeed turning a blind eye to this, then what else is the US Government not sharing?
MySpace could be worth $15 billion US in 3 years
This is nuts. Beyond nuts. Interesting usage figures though, given I’ve read elsewhere lately that the 100 million users figure for MySpace is rubbish due to inactive accounts etc, Reuters claims MySpace has 90 million active users. Amazing, but still a crazy valuation.
Scoble launches the Scoble Show
The Scoble Show. Got to say it’s pretty damn good. Scoble avoids the mistakes of many in podcasting by keeping the interviews fairly short and punchy so they don’t drag on (like that horrid podcast he was on with Arrington and Om over at Techcruch the other day). I’ve only watched a few so far […]
34 million blogs in China: report
Interesting figures from the China Daily: 34 million blogs in China, but 70% haven’t been updated in over a month. 17 million bloggers in China. 75 million Chinese read blogs (for memory there’s about 110 million people on the internet in China, so thats a big figure). Technorati tracks approx 50 million blogs. Still don’t […]
Techcrunch moves to part feeds, will Scoble and others boycott it?
All of a sudden the previously full feed from Techcrunch has moved to a part feed (click image for larger shot)…is this an accident or a deliberate move? Will Scoble and others who hate part feeds now boycott Techcrunch? Developing… 🙂 Tags: Techcrunch, Scoble
Bitttorrent sites reviewed
Nice review of Bittorrent sites over at this blog (no idea whether it has a name or not…?!) (via Slashdot). I’ve never heard of a couple of the sites, in particular the top ranked BT Junkie. Worth a look. Tags: Bittorrent
Adsense is dead, and Digital Incest!
For those of you new to duncanriley.com, or who haven’t followed my ramblings since the Blog Herald days, I like to read and subscribe to ebook gurus. Most of them are completely and utterly full of sh*t, but I’ve always found them interesting from a marketing perspective. But I digress once again, because for once […]
Jericho reviewed
So I finally got my hands on a very nice, HD Dobly Surround Sound Copy of Jericho. As per Fridays post, no comment as to how 🙂 General thoughts. Not bad, not bad indeed. I can’t get she who must be obeyed to watch it though because the premise of the show is too dark […]
Lazy Sunday
All for funny money of course 🙂
NY Times looking for a WordPress developer
Michael over at the Solostream blog posts that the NY Times is looking for a WordPress developer. As much as it’s nice to know that even a huge MSM company like the NY Times group is using WordPress, the criteria is a bit rough, in particular “2-3 years experience developing and maintaining WordPress blogs”. That […]
Techcrunch rips Zecco
Techcrunch reviews Zecco. WTF? God help us that there’s a startup with a business plan that actually might meet an unmet niche….oh no, because Techcrunch would much rather hype flash in the pan over capitalised and business plan free startups that create solutions for problems that don’t exist. But probably more seriously here, who at […]