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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.
Yahoo launches Brick House, but is she that sexy?
TechCrunch reports on Yahoo BrickHouse, “a new semi-autonomous business unit to foster new product development”, but is she good looking, after all, brickhouse is slang for “Full-figured female. Really built.”, or alternatively “very voluptuous woman, NOT like Halley Berry or Jessica alba. Thick and tough like Beyonce or J’lo”. Maybe Yahoo! has a fat arse, […]
Hope for the online gambling community
Reuters: U.S. Rep. Barney Frank is considering a bill to repeal a ban imposed last year on online gambling, said a spokesman for the lawmaker on Wednesday. “Chairman Frank is considering legislation,” said Steven Adamske, spokesman for the Massachusetts Democrat, who chairs the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee. Now if only we had a […]
The iRack launched
This is clever:
Where Land Cruisers go to die: Portland, Oregon
This clever kid is importing old Land Cruisers from Australia to convert to biodiesel for resale in the US, apparently Australian Land Cruisers are the “best cared-for”. I wonder if he needs to convert them to left hand drive? At least now we know where old Land Cruisers go to die: Portland, Oregon. There’s got […]
AuctionAds looking good
I’ve been watching with interest the launch by Jeremy Schoemaker of AuctionAds , a sort of eBay meets Adsense product with ads like this: I’ve held of signing up until now because I was waiting to be convinced by some hard proof that they convert competitively, and it now looks like EarnersBlog has some proof. […]
Organising Information
Just wrote a post at 901am on the latest efforts by the Chinese Government to further censor blogs and remembered that I’d read an article in the last week of so about how the censorship regime works in China. Thanks to the wonders of Web 2.0 I found the article in my BlueDot feed. OK, […]
New Wii commercials
Looks like the emphasis is moving onto Mii creation. In a house of 3 people we’ve got at least 10 Mii’s on our Wii now, the golden child loves setting them up, although name choices such as xcgddc are interesting…I’ll have to work on his typing 🙂
Is Sensis driving traffic to Yellow Pages by stuffing White Pages?
Anyone tried a business search lately on whitepages.com.au? Where as once the site was a great resource for finding contact details, it’s now as useless as tits on a bull, even when using the correct business name. Pop across to yellowpages.com.au and it works straight away. This is a fairly new phenomena, certainly I’ve noticed […]
Why Australia will never catch up in Web 2.0
SFGate: Where neo-nomads’ ideas percolate If there’s no WiFi there’s no Web 2.0 office, there’s no Web 2.0 culture, there’s no Web 2.0 development on the scale we see in the US. Whilst the Australian Government (and Opposition) remain obsessed with regulating the internet, nothing is being proposed or done to increase the affordability of […]
New Crowded House to debut in the UK March 19
From the official Crowded House mailing list: Having spent the last couple of weeks in the studio, Crowded House are keen to try out their new line-up live in front of their fans. Neil Finn, Nick Seymour and Matt Hart will be joined on stage by new drummer Matt Sherrod at the Thekla Social in […]
The state of Australian Journalism
Slow news day, or have News Ltd just sunk to even lower lows? The lead photo story at news.com.au at 7:25pm Sat AWST: Does the tambourine eat your butt when you visit news.com.au? or is it simply a matter of extraterrestrial phenomena in Adelaide. Quality Australian journalism at its finest thanks to Rupert Murdoch.
PayPerPost and Robert Scoble
I’m nearly at a loss in describing this, other than to reiterate what I’ve said previously: Robert Scoble speaking at a PayPerPost gig lends his credibility to the folks at PayPerPost, shots as follows from the main page at www.postiecon.com: They’ve certainly got the slick slimy greasy marketing part down pat. Tags: PayPerPost, […]
The summer we never had, in Autumn
About time…give or take a couple of months 🙂
Life is Short
I was all prepared to post today about how living in the fastest growing part of Australia (officially) is becoming a pain, even if the growth figure of just under 10,000 extra people in 5 years came off a low base of 50,000. Every day or two I’m now having to deal with banked up […]
Standards aren’t improving at The Blog Herald
I tried to leave a comment at The Blog Herald, I was moderated or deleted, not sure, so I’ll post here. Tony LongHung at the Blog Herald writes: the linked article at The Boston Herald: For the record it was Victoria that banned YouTube videos. I’m not shy of writing the occasional sensationalist headline, but […]
Would you visit a social network bought to you by The Australian?
TechCrunch bravos USA Today for going down the social networking path on their website. If The Australian, Australia’s version of USA Today went down the social networking path, would you use the service? Imagine it: Glenn Milne could serve the virtual drinks, and punch the Crikey team member could be one of the interactive games […]
BusinessLogs on the Market
Mike Rundles BusinessLogs design business and site is on the market at Sitepoint, bidding from $25k with a BIN at $55k. Surprising move. As a concept and business I would have thought it was worth more, however without Rundle with it I guess the valuation is some what closer to what it should be. Question […]
Syntagma takes the FM/ Glam path
This is clever thinking. If you’ve got the aggregation backend in place why not open it up to outsiders if you’re confident of being able to sell advertising against it and can provide a decent cut (in this case 70%) to the content creator. My only query at this stage is what the direct benefit […]
Australian Government to censor Bloggers, online publishers
In case you miss it, check out my latest post at 901am, prompted by today’s Crikey Subscriber email. Welcome to Communist Russia, Australian style….and no one believes me what I tell them that the Australian Liberal Party is as socialist as they come, be it in an agrarian flavour.
And the award for the weirdest thing you’ll see on YouTube this week goes to
This: Howard Lindzon in a Bra–the Remix. WTF doesn’t even cover this in terms of bizarre. (via 1938media)