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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.
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Lets Lay The Abbott Bias On Hard
I may not be the biggest Tony Abbott fan in the world, but likewise the coverage in the MSM of Abbott’s shadow cabinet appointments today was so bias as to be cringe worthy. Yeah, remember that the MSM is suppose to report on facts? So when I hear on nearly every news service that Abbott […]
LOL: We’re Apparently a Scrapper Site
There’s been lots of lulz following my reply to Media140 a couple of weeks back, but the best came from one person who claims that The Inquisitr is a scrapper site who copies and pastes content that isn’t our own. Let me say up front that roughly 20-30% of our content (sometimes less) is most […]
Nichenet Turns 10
Roughly 10 years ago (the exact date I don’t recall, except that I’m sure it was 99) I registered my first business name: Nichenet. Two business name registrations later and Nichenet became Nichenet Pty Ltd in around late 2006-2007. The name came about when I was asked to pitch for the design of a website. […]
Rudd-erless while Oil Spilled
Those who know me know that I’m no tree hugging hippie…sorry greenie, but there are things you do, and things you don’t do. Like let oil spill into the Timor Sea for 2 months before plugging the hole. Where was Rudd during this time? Surely if the inept operators couldn’t have fixed it with X […]
Did I mention I like the New Technorati?
And not only because they’re selling more of our ads at late 🙂 Technorati Top 100: 50-75.
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just a quick test to see if we’re working
Declan’s first movie: Space Alien Attack
My iPhone 3GS combined with a 7 year old boy = this. Declan did it without prompting either…the only thing I had to do was combine 3 clips and add a small overlay intro.
Inquisitr case study on Problogger
Duncan Riley of The Inquisitr Shares a Popular Post Case Study The questions were set, so the responses to fit the questions. None the less, doing a Q & A like that forces you to think about what you did right and wrong. I actually enjoy it, and some might actually find value in what […]
Blue moon and praise for Conroy
Epic Win: Australian Government to force wholesale separation of Telstra This is so much win. It’s win x 1000. I don’t believe I’ve been more excited about a Government decision for a very long time. Did I say win already? Previous notes January 2009 Structural separation, as I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ve always argued is the only solution. Telstra […]
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Hong Kong Best Food Box Hill: white people not welcome
The suburb we moved to just over a month ago borders Box Hill, the center of the Chinese community in Melbourne. Box Hill is our local shopping center, and its 3 minutes in the car. I love it: parts of it remind me of Hong Kong: a magically fascinating range of shops you don’t get […]
John Hartigan, your shipment of fail has arrived
John Hartigan, CEO of News Ltd in a speech July 1 talking about the decline of newspapers I mean, at its most basic, it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s just bad reporting. There?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s almost no evidence. For starters, newspaper ad revenue in Australia has been growing ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú not declining over the past 5 years as it has in the US […]
If you’re going to give 16 year olds the vote, why not take it further
WTF: Push to give 16-year-olds the vote in federal elections/ The Oz The idea clearly reeks of Rudd looking for extra votes for the ALP given that under 18’s would be more likely to vote in that direction. But having said that I’m not dead against the idea: “young” people should have a say to […]
Personally, I’d blame the parents
Fourth Geelong student commits suicide: News.com.au Suicide is a terrible business, but it’s not helped by quoting mentally deficient adults in newspapers either. The opening paragraph…and the sub-headline used on the front page of news.com.au reads A GRIEVING mother has blamed the internet for the death of her 14-year-old daughter. Yes, the internet KILLED her […]
Tips for blog applicants round 2
I’ve started shortlist candidates for our Associate Blogging positions tonight and I felt it might be time for a follow up to this post back in May. – When the ad includes the line “The email should absolutely under NO circumstances come with an attachment. If you don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t have examples of your writing online, upload […]
Internode speed test
The interwebs were connected last night (Wednesday) exactly two days after I finally managed to place an order with Internode to get it connected over a Telstra landline (no Naked ADSL for me 🙁 ). They said 5-10 days, so I’m doubly impressed, although it helps a lot that the connection is a Telstra resale […]
Quest to 100
June 22 was a blip, but Technorati has sorted it out ever since, at least we’ve been steady for over a week. Quest to 100.
Changes at The Inquisitr
The good news before we start is that hopefully the worst of the US recession is over for us ad wise on the site. We’re still not doing anywhere near the fill or CPM rates we were getting in the last quarter of last year, but through a combination of improved traffic, improvements from our […]
Here’s The Punch on numbers
News Ltd CEO John Hartigan gave a speech today. Inquisitr coverage here. Interestingly he gave some data on The Punch The Punch has taken off like a rocket since it was launched in May ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú our target was to achieve traffic of 80,000 users in the first month. It?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s actually achieved almost 200,000. Now let […]
How to get a new home connected to ADSL 2 in Australia without a 1 month+ wait
See previous post for context. So I finally conceded that the only way I’d jump to the first position was to get a phone line connected. We take possession on the 2nd (July, it’s the 29th June as I type this) and it turns out that Telstra can connect a physical line on the 3rd. […]