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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.
Weird Al does it again
Is Mike Arrington and TechCrunch taking legal action against Techcrush?
Interesting post at Techcrush, a Web 2.0 review site: We put down our pencils here at the Crush-Room for the next days due to possible legal issues. Please stay with us, we will see how things are going to work out. Legal issues? we’ll the only possible person who could have legal issues with the […]
CBS and Channel 10 suck
Last night was the debut episode of Jericho, the new American series based around an end of the world sort of scenario…and a series that for once we haven’t got to wait 6-9 months to see after its debuted in the States..indeed we got to see it 12 hours after it’s US debut. I’ve got […]
MeeVee: you just know this is a Web 2.0 startup bound to fail
Techcrunch covers an upgrade to the Web 2.0 television guide site MeeVee. It’s a service that offers….a television guide….I’m so under whelmed, after all it’s something MSN and Yahoo to name but a few have been offering for years, not to forget hundreds of other sites. But it’s Web 2.0 I hear people saying, it’s […]
A note if you’ve come here due to receiving spam
A note if you’ve come here to duncanriley.com due to receiving spam. It isn’t me. I’ve got a catch all on duncanriley.com for incoming email, but aside from one email address there isn’t any others being used. Please don’t send me abusive emails or remove requests, simply, someone is spoofing @duncanriley.com email addresses and sending […]
Why doesn’t Google love Canada and Australia?
Interesting post over at Jensense. Apparently you can’t become a Qualified Company in the Google Advertising Professionals program if your company is in Canada. It appears that you can’t be a member of the program if your company is in Australia as well…and yet if your company is in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, […]
Another blog on the block
I was sitting here thinking to myself hmmm…I haven’t posted anything here in over 2 days…news wise it’s been really quite, and with the golden child at home recovering from a tonsillectomy I’ve not been 100% in front of my computer either…indeed, I thought I might write a post about how quite it’s been news […]
Welcome to Engadgetscape
Engadget has a new look. Nice. But am I the only one at this stage to have noticed that the back end changes in terms of voting on comments etc is Netscape. Clever work by Jason Calacanis to leverge the scripting from Netscape into his Blogsmith platform though. Still no support for trackbacks though. As […]
The sleeping minow wakes
Performancing has a job listed for a Google Blogger. The company hiring is a firm by the name of Visual Connect. It’s an Australian company, never heard of them prior to now, but it’s the second time in as many weeks I’ve seen Australian companies expand into blog network plays. Of course, new blog networks […]
Monday Morning
Monday morning sucks, and yet it’s good all at the same time. There’s usually nothing much good to read in my Bloglines subscriptions, and that sucks, because it’s still Sunday night in the States. But the fact that I’ve got nothing much to read is actually a good thing because it frees up time to […]
The Blogging Times seeks an intern
Minic over at The Blogging Times is advertising for an intern. It’s a non-paid position but by being part of that team you not only get exposure at the site, you also get to pick the brains of the Hunter S Thompson of the Blogosphere, Chartreuse. Recommended.
An Inconvenient Truth, or the futility in trying
Todays philosophical thought. Does your collective wisdom and experience mean diddly squat when no body believes you? Is it futile in trying when those parallel to you or above you won’t accept facts because those facts are inconvenient to their overall picture of how things should be? Is it futile trying to persuade the unpersuadable? […]
Open source Digg-style CMS?
Jason Calacanis points to Federated Media’s new Digg style site:SearchMob. Haven’t had a deep look at it, but what I did notice is the link to the CMS, a Web 2.0 Open Source package called Pligg. Yep, you to can now run your own Digg clone from the comfort of your own home and all […]
More proof that Australia is out of touch
This article on SEO from Australian IT. As Threadwatch headlines it: “Australian IT Now Teaching SEO Tricks from 1997”. This from our national newspaper. Yikes. I some journalists wonder why people are moving away from the MSM to blogs and other alternative news sources.
Chinese blog slips to the Top of Technorati
Amazing stuff: the top blog in terms of incoming links now at Technorati: this blog, a Chinese language blog hosted by Sina.com. I’m surprised there’s not a huge amount of discussion about this as yet: I picked it up a Techmeme and there was only one incoming link on the story…remember this blog has knocked […]
America proves again why others regard it as stupid
Todays the 5th Anniversary of 9/11. Now read this: CBS Corp. said on Saturday it would broadcast the documentary “9/11” on the Internet as well as the airwaves after several affiliates said they would delay or forgo the award-winning film because it includes profanity. The documentary was produced by French filmmakers Gedeon and Jules Naudet […]
Blogging the Media Connect Influence Conference Day 2, or I love poker
Day 2. The blogging talk went well yesterday, at least the feedback was immensly positive, which was a relief in itself. Met the Australian Poker Champion and a chap who is the Asia-Pacific Rep for Pokerstars.com, interesting conversation, but as dinner sponors they had a couple of games of poker running for funny money….great stuff, […]
Blogging the Media Connect Influence Conference
Day 1. Some 24 hours after leaving the end of the world and I find myself in The Hunter Valley, NSW for the Media Connect Influence Conference, with a presentation to make on blogging in a bit over 60 minutes that I haven’t written yet. 🙂 The first session was Web 2.0. Unfortunately if this […]
Vale Peter Brock 1945-2006
Peter Brock, veteran racing car driver, many, many times winner of the Bathurst 1000 has died today doing what he loved doing most: racing. According to the SMH, Brock was behind the wheel of a car competing in the Targa West rally and crashed into a tree at Gidgegannup, outside of Perth at lunch time […]
Is today the day I stop using Google?
For some reason Google keeps defaulting today to the Google personalised home page, not Google search, even when I type in www.google.com. It’s frustrating. It’s trying to force me to use a service I don’t want to use, but what’s worse is that is ridiculously slow to load in comparison to the normal Google front […]