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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.
Google Video now working in Bloglines
Word on the street during the week was that Google Reader now supports inline video. I don’t use Google Reader, although with the amount of buzz around for the service I might have to take a second look, but the good thing for all you Bloglines fans out there: it would appear that Google Video […]
Australian Blogging Conference delayed
I was literally going to try and book for frequent flyer flgihts today, then got this from Peter Black: Unfortunately due to a last minute and unexpected problem with sponsorship, QUT has decided to postpone the Australian Blogging Conference until later in the year. We were faced with the option of running the conference with […]
Fun with Yahoo!
I’m not to blame, but it does seem that others are having fun with Yahoo’s new Wii splog portal (from the front page):
Oh god! MyBlogLog is forcing Yahoo! ID’s as well.
Just when I was forced to have a Yahoo! ID with Flickr, MyBlogLog, newly acquired by Yahoo! is following suite. GRRRRRRRRRRR x 999999999. (via 901am) Tags: Yahoo, MyBlogLog, 901am
Congrats to Shiny Media
Andy Merrett at The Blog Herald covers a $4.5 million investment into UK blogging network Shiny Media. Insert the old fogy sound here as I remember when Shiny Media consisted of all but one blog, but a good one at that. Congrats to the team at Shiny, $4.5m @ 50% sounds like a reasonable, fair […]
Vista dreaming
Despite all the hype about Windows Vista I’ve not felt the need to run off to the shops and buy a copy, after all, what exactly does it do that XP doesn’t do? having said that however, I love to play with new things, so I remembered today that the Acer Laptop I bought in […]
You know you’re getting old when…
It’s the golden child’s first day at school. It only seems like yesterday they were chopping him out of she who must be obeyed’s stomach 🙂 Happy first day at school son, and I know you’ll look forward to reading this post at Archive.org in 2020. We’re proud of you, just a shame about the […]
WTF? Technorati lauches a Digg clone.
Steve Rubel reports on Technorati launching a Digg clone named WTF. Yep, WTF but meaning where’s the fire…I kid you not. Why didn’t they just call it Where’s the Cheese? or is that phrase a TM of the Australian Dairy Corporation?. Peter Russell Clarke could be the head spokesman and all. Talking of WTF, Peter […]
An ascendant Pinoy blogosphere
It’s all happening in the Philippines. Despite the occasional bad strange odd different apple, the Pinoy blogosphere is rocking, and it’s not just the Philippines greatest export to the world BryanBoy, it’s The Bayanihan Blog Network. OK, so the first word is a definite tongue twister, but take a look anyway!
The Blog Herald went to PR 6
Interesting, just dropped by my old stomping ground The Blog Herald, the site has dropped down from it’s PR 7 to a PR 6. I wonder why?
Do it now!
Today’s inspirational post bought to you by Quadszilla. Of course he’s right, which is why I’m busy building stuff myself, but when you’ve got a big ticket idea you need money to fund that…that as they say, is a story for later in the year, all things being equal 🙂
No blog is an island unto itself.
Over the weekend Robert Scoble started a big bushfire, claiming that big blogs don’t link to other blogs. He’s right, but unfortunately for Scoble he aimed his gun in the wrong direction at wounded some friendly combatants, in particular Engadget and Gizmodo, who in return are really, really pissed. But I digress somewhat, because Scoble […]
Happy Australia Day!
OMG! IT’S OFFICIAL: CROWDED HOUSE TO REFORM!
I read in the weekend papers that there was a strong chance of this happening, but it’s confirmed: Crowded House is reforming after a break of 10 years, minus of course Paul Hester who very sadly took his own life in 2005. The great new for fans who were never particularly fond of Tim Finn […]
Second Life a pyramid scheme?
Valleywag claims that Second Life is a pyramid scheme. They’re in part right. When I was a lot more active in SL (I’m down to maybe once a month these days and I’ve long since cancelled my paid account) pyramid style banking schemes were common and I probably lost $10-$20 investing some of my money […]
Want to come to Australia? you’ll need DIC
Australians are fond of shortening names of Government Departments (in part because the web address for each is usually shortened as well), the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is known as DFAT, the Australian Tax Office is commonly known at the ATO, and here in Western Australian the former Department of Fair Trading was […]
Performancing Implodes
I’ve not said anything about the stuff going on previously at Performancing mostly out of respect for Nick Wilson, the previous CEO, but it just keeps getting worse with news that Performanicng Partners, the advertising arm of Performancing is being closed down, this a month after Performancing Metrics was shut and Nick Wilson resigned from […]
My 5 minutes of being Dave Winer
Yep, I’ve suffered a bout of grumpy old blogger syndrome. No, I’m not claiming my blog was the first one, but this thread at 901am got me started. The new owners of The Blog Herald (no link love anymore) took it upon themselves to remove my name from the author column at the bottom of […]
Why I wont be upgrading to WP 2.1 yet
Aaron has a good guide as to what to expect in WordPress 2.1. I won’t be rushing to upgrade due to this line: many plugins will no longer work in 2.1 due to deprecation of database table variables Too much hassle at this stage, and I’m still struggling to upgrade to 2.0.7 on all my […]
BlogCatalog on the market
It really is a sign of a strong and mature market place when quality sites regularly hit the market, and BlogCatalog proves the point. The site is currently for saleThe site sold in 1 day at Sitepoint for $40,000 USD. Congrats to all involved. (thanks to David for the tip).