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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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Inquisitr February 2009: and still the ad market bleeds
Pageviews: 2,315,920 (new monthly record) Traffic profile: largest post at 15.2% of views (and a bloody lot of comments). Finances: the ad market is still bleeding. Our overall monthly return was down 2.1% from January despite a 27% jump in traffic. By my calculations, we are off 23% on what we should have achieved in […]
Shame Darwin Shame
I’m sympathetic to old diggers still holding a grudge against the Japanese given the historical context, but in 2009 there’s no place for this, particularly when a lot of the message is coming from people born well and truly after WW2 who simply don’t have an excuse to hold a grudge. Age: Japanese ship unsettles […]
Sure sign of a bad economy
Always a sure sign of a bad economy: cheaper cuts of meat, and booming chicken sales SMH: THE bleak economic climate is forcing shoppers at Coles to trade down from T-bones to sausages, in an attempt to cut their shopping bills. In the latest sign of the drift to thrift, consumers are also swapping expensive […]
Google News censoring pics?
We ran a story earlier today on the name and public details of the alleged Churchill fire arsonist. We didn’t run his picture due to the gag order in place on his picture and address in Victoria (the gag order was lifted on his name), despite The Inquisitr being hosted in the US. No idea […]
Some Australian PR Reps don’t get blogs
To start on a positive note, I’ve had a uptick lately of Australian PR pitches. Some are half reasonable, although like all the stuff that comes in, we can’t run it all, even if we wanted to. The Inquisitr doesn’t do a huge amount of Australian related content, although as our Australian traffic increases it […]
Age shall not weary them, nor the Google News forget
Just for a change, I’ll bag someone other than the mainstream media. Google News. Its Valentines Day, Feb 14. 11:15am in the morning at I’m typing this. And what is Google News showing in its latest Victoria news section? (hint, look at the dates of the stories)
Fail to Win
Jeremy Schoemaker makes a lot of sense Money quote: I am always amazed at how scared people are to fail. I fail all the time?¢‚Ǩ¬¶. or at least what other people would consider to be failures. I would rather call them experiences. Learning from your failures and trying until you find success is an amazing […]
Sitepoint deal.
Absolute steal.
Online ad spending up in Australia?
Paidcontent reports on a PCW report that suggests at least until the end of the last year, online ad spend in Australia continued to head north. Notably off a crappy base, and they only polled the “top 1000 sites” what ever that means. Still, wins a win.
People don’t like Karma
Received an odd email yesterday from someone I hadn’t heard from in years. Someone who out of the blue cut me off despite a once close working relationship. Turns out that she got a serious dose of karma, and is rather bitter about it. Wrote to me to say as much as well. Very strange […]
From the depths of despair rises the true Australian spirit
I’m still just….fuck. Victoria is like a morgue today. People are quiet, the look of horror on their faces, even if they weren’t directly affected. This isn’t to say that they are some how worse off than those who were directly affected; they simply aren’t. But this State is in a state of shock, that […]
Hey Bob Brown, shut the fuck up
Up to 60 people dead, hundreds, possibly thousands of homes lost, and Senator Bob Brown (leader of the Australian Greens) uses the opportunity to warn people about global warming More fires to come as climate change continues: Bob Brown Global warming is predicted to make this sort of event happen 25 per cent, 50 per […]
Autumn leaves in the middle of summer
The Age confirms what I observed the other day: THE leaves may be turning brown and falling, but it’s not an early autumn…. Melbourne’s Botanic Gardens have been undertaking a program to save plants and director Richard Barley said they were in reasonable condition, but he is concerned about the long-term prospects for Melbourne’s established […]
TwitterCounter
I must have been living in a cave, or just forgotten, but TwitterCounter tracks your Twitter followers (via Ross Hill on FF) Conclusion from my stats: Twitter works best if you be yourself. I quite often share inane things, weather, finance, stuff I find, and sometimes what ever pops into my head, and I wouldn’t […]
Melbourne Tree Armagedon?
The photo doesn’t do it justice (hard while driving) but I noticed today that around Hawthorn, Canterbury and Camberwell that all the trees are dropping their leaves….in January, and not Autumn. One of the best parts of living in the Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne is just how beautiful the streets are. In Autumn, the trees […]
Michael Hill Jewellers FTW
A big shout out to Michael Hill Jewellers. She who must be obeyed’s rather expensive 1ct diamond ring I gave to her for her 30th birthday (back when I could still afford to buy something like this) lost a diamond last week. They’re replacing the diamond under warranty, and were highly apologetic. It is insured, […]
We’ll all be rooned, said Kevin Rudd
Whoops. Rudd reveals $115b loss I read last week that Keating’s giving economic advice to Rudd, no surprise when you read this stuff. Sorry in advance about the language, but we’re now officially fucked. – $115 billion. Projected surplus in November was $5.7 billion. See the magic difference, and that’s before yet another stimulus package. […]
Win
Meg updated her Top 100 Australian blogs, the best and fairest top Australian blog list (we can’t even get added to some of the others, go figure) Australia Day. Here’s the result Win. It doesn’t pay the bills I might add, but to be up there after just short of 9 months with the Allure […]
Bleg: Please browser makers, show a where the audio is coming from button
I’ll admit it: I’m a tab fiend. I switched away from IE6 to Firefox all those years ago (when I was still a Windows user) for tabs. Tabs were, and still are the miracle of the modern internet. They allow you to open content and come back to it later. In my case, that’s opening […]
A Proposal to Filter Christian Churches
This is in response to Jim Wallace of the Australian Christian Lobby in the SMH (via Stilgherian) Hon Kevin Rudd MP Prime Minister of Australia Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600 Re: proposal to filter Christian Churches Dear Prime Minister I write to you about the utmost urgency of protecting children from pedophilia and other deviant […]