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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.
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 […]