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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.
Bryanboy struck by the Shared Hosting scam
Bryanboy shares his experiences with MidPhase. It’s a case of the Shared Hosting scam striking again, the one where by so-called high use shared hosting packages aren’t really because usually buried somewhere in the fine print (never in an easy place, nor disclosed up front) is a clause about CPU/ server usage which states they […]
Eatonweb up for sale at Sitepoint
The first of the blog directories…and I mean *THE FIRST*, the EatonWeb Portal is up for sale at Sitepoint, current bid at the time of writing is $4k with a BIN of $15k. From what I can read it’s fallen on tough times, zero revenue, although it’s still got a PR of 7. At $15k […]
Plain Wrong
From the only in America files: A teacher is convicted of endangering minors after porn popups appeared on her computer. A 16 year old kid has his life ruined in Arizona after child porn is found on his computer. A forensics specialist finds 200 separate trojans, malware and spyware. All US based podcasters could be […]
TypePad is down!
Went to visit a couple of Wired articles/ blog posts, I got this, no idea as for how long TypePad has been down (it’s 14:30 +9GMT as I type this), but no doubt that others will notice it soon: Tags: TypePad, SixApart
It’s easy to manipulate top blogs, just hire a PR firm
Multichannel Merchant reports on the expansion of UK gadget merchant Firebox into the US market. Unremarkable you’d think, accept for these juicy parts: Bill Linn, a partner with Sandbox Strategies [Firebox’s PR firm], says his firm looked for blogs popular with techies or pop culture enthusiasts, then e-mailed them messages about unique products, deals, and […]
Google’s Blogger now supporting your own URL
This is big news! It’s fair to say that its taken long enough, but at long last Blogger supports private URL’s, beyond the previous abilities to use your own URL for posting but hosting it elsewhere, but to use it with Blogger (or Google as the case may be) as the host. The quote from […]
Windows Home Server sounds good
Bill Gates has announced Windows Home Server at CES. Sounds like a good idea and it’s something I’d think about buying, however how rapped up in DRM is it going to be? Will I be able to store my ripped music on it without any hassles?
Justice Kirby’s MySpace page a Fraud…really?
The Sydney Morning Herald reports on the fake MySpace page authored under the name of leading Australian High Court Activist Judge Michael Kirby. I wonder what gave it away? Was it the “I’m a Pimp” headline?, or the friends list?. The really hilarious thing is the quote from the the MySpace people. The case, which […]
Thank God, Dave Taylor articulates my own suspicions on the Vista Laptop Blogger Scandal
I’d been hoping to bring this up in Gday World this week, but I never got the chance, because I’ve always seen the Microsoft Vista Laptop Bloggers scandal for what it is, aside from a marketing ploy, but a marketing ploy that had a focus..on hardware. The reason Microsoft sent out those laptops wasn’t alone […]
Sometimes the attacks are uncalled for, defending Micheal Arrington
I know Cam of Gday World fame will read this and think that I’m sucking up to Arrington again, but as long time readers will know, my comment is neither for sale, nor is it anything other than representative of my honest beliefs. Of course, as to the matter of whether they are flawed or […]
Know More Media adds 10 new sites
Congrats to the team at Know More Media on the addition of ten new blogs. These guys continue to grow with some great sites. I’d love to know what sort of figures they are doing now, out of personal interest only. Certainly business is a high paying vertical market to be in. Correction: My […]
Studivz…did someone say bubble?
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch reports on the sale of German language Facebook Clone Studivz for 100 million Euros (sorry, no idea how to type the Euro symbol). The site apparently does have 1 million users who one would presume would primarily reside in Germany, but 100 Euros per user as an acquisition price? WTF? It’s […]
Catch me at G’Day World all this week
Obligitory plug, although given last nights Podcast where Cam and I probably offended at least 1 billion people world wide, perhaps I shouldn’t be promoting it, but if you’re interested I’m Co-Hosting the G’Day World Podcast this week with Cam Reilly (no relation). One podcast down and I’ve already broken all my personal rules: no […]
Filipinos taking over blogosphere
Joey Alarilla at CNet Asia notes the rise of Pinoy bloggers into positions of prominence in the blogosphere. Not before time, and thoroughly deserved. Congrats in particular to Jayvee on his recent promotion, to others he’s definitely a blogger to watch.
Comment spam is getting even more out of control
Maybe it’s just the new year/ silly season spike (comment spammers normally ramp up spam at this time of year because it’s less likely to get picked up as people are away) but it would appear more than ever that comment spam is getting even more out of control. I cleared approx 15,000 comment spam […]
Time names Wii Sports Video Game of the Year
More good news on the games front for Nintendo. To quote: There is no possible way to say this enough times: great graphics don’t make great games. Perfect Dark Zero looked like a Titian, but it was a snooze. Wii Sports?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùa mini-sports anthology that includes golf, boxing, tennis, baseball and bowling?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùlooks like Colecovision. The little […]