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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.
CBS is Nuts! Bring Back Jericho
Via Chris Pirillo, Jericho has been cancelled by CBS in the US. To quote Jake from the end of series 1: nuts! I watch very little TV, but I’ve enjoyed every minute of Jericho, even if I’ve had to watch it away from my TV set as Channel Ten in Australia hasn’t shown the second […]
Supermarket 2.0
via Graywolf on Jaiku, very clever 🙂
Joined Jaiku
Enough is enough with Twitter. If you’re on Jaiku let me know http://duncanriley.jaiku.com Hopefully will see a lot of my Twitter contacts appear shortly, still love the idea and the conversation, but I can’t handle Twitter’s downtime.
Bugs in Google Reader?
I made the switch from Bloglines to Google Reader a while back, but I’m noticing a couple of things that are starting to become annoying. First is slowness in listing new posts. I notice it most with my own posts on various sites, I’ll post and it won’t appear in Google Reader for 2-3 hours, […]
Techmeme quirk
Shot taken today. Techmeme pointing to a February post from Tim O’Reilly. Coincidence that I linked to it at TechCrunch the same time that a couple of others did. Was third highest story until magically disappearing: I sense the hand of human intervention.
4.4% unemployment rate nationally, 2.7% in WA: struth
SMH coverage. TheWest coverage. Was it at school or Uni I sat through a lesson that taught that in the modern era full employment was really 5% because we could never again go lower? The SMH thinks it’s unlikely to cause interest rates to rise, I don’t agree. That last 4.4% would be 75% unemployable.The […]
Todays insane video bought to you by…
Tornadovideos.net This is insane. And yet amazing at the same time.
Mig33 lands $10M
Red Herring reported Friday that Mig33, a company originally based in Perth(Western Australia) but now on the West Coast took $10m in funding Accel Partners and RedPoint Ventures with Technology Venture Partners in for good measure. Mig33 offers mobile phone users voice over Internet Protocol, instant messaging, SMS-based text messaging, and social-networking services. Mig33 rolls […]
BlogDesk updates
New version of Blogdesk out. It’s a bug fix and where as I was having some issues posting to some blogs before, the new version works a treat. I’ve been using it for over 18 months now, and I still love it, mind you in this time I’m sure someone somewhere must have implemented inline […]
You cant win them all
New review up at TechCrunch covering Twitbin. Mixed results in terms of comments, some people love it, some think it shouldn’t have been reviewed. I’m a conviction writer, if I write about something I’ll do so for two reasons: 1. because it’s topical, and in the case of TechCrunch because it’s in the scope of […]
Two cool Australian blogs you’re probably not reading
Sydney Daily Photo and Melbourne Today. Both photoblogs posting 1 photo from Sydney and Melbourne respectively every day. It’s a simple idea that just works, and in the case of Sydney Daily Photo it brings back a lot of memories for me, the author has had a strong focus on shots from The (Sutherland) Shire […]
Nearly time to give up on News.com.au
P-LEASE! A storm in a tea cup beaten up to be the leading news story. Lets see: Channel Ten new Kate had suffered from a still birth, but she’d CLEARLY told them it was in the past, and that she was over it. Big Brother re-runs a housemate task from the first series, caring for […]
Digg uprising leading world news?
Top of the front page at News.com.au, Australia’s leading News site, being the combined homepage for all of News Corp’s Australian Newspapers: Interesting that Digg becomes the No. 1 story in a world full of wars, death and destruction. No front page coverage from the SMH or ABC at this stage.
The Digg Revolt of 2007: a renaissance in listening to users
Something amazing happened today on Digg. After a long time ignoring the complaints of users, indeed even alienating many top contributors, the folks running Digg, in particular Kevin Rose actually listened, and responded. True, it was only after banning users and stories about the HD DVD key that the decision was made, but it’s still […]
Google on Oprah
Via SEOBlackHat:
The only decision, is never to shop at Retravision Bunbury again.
It probably serves me right for gloating about getting a bargain. 2 weeks later and my Sony HD TV still hasn’t arrived. When I agreed to buy the thing the salesman told me 2 days. After I handed over the money I was told 1 week and a bit, Thursday to be precise. So I […]
Fred for President
Not many Australians would have been following this, but I’ve been watching for a while now, for those who have missed it, Fred Thompson, best known to Australians as the District Attorney Arthur Branch on Channel Tens Law and Order franchise, who also just happens to be a former Governor of Tennessee, is considering putting […]
Another expert says Human Made Global Warming is a crock
This speaks for itself: The United States?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ leading hurricane forecaster said Friday that global ocean currents, not human-produced carbon dioxide, are responsible for global warming, and the Earth may begin to cool on its own in five to 10 years. William Gray, a Colorado State University researcher best known for his annual forecasts of hurricanes […]
E-Gold soon to be no more
Looks like the chaps behind E-Gold are in a spot of bother: “Three owners of online payment processor E-Gold and an affiliated company have been indicted for money laundering and related crimes for allegedly allowing sellers of child pornography, operators of investment scams and other types of criminals to send and receive payments related to […]
No Twitter?
For at least the last 3 hours: