Author: admin

From the NY Times, all the Web 2.0 firms in NYC:

more here.

Interesting article here. I love this quote:

“Indeed, today’s more pressing question isn’t whether you can get a job if you blog, but, rather, whether you can get a job without a blog.”

(via Steve Rubel)

Neville Hobson makes an interesting point:

“But there?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s one significant statistic we can?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢t yet determine – how many people actually listen to each show. We also have a link on each show notes post where you can click and listen there and then rather than download the MP3 file. And as Shel and I cross-post each show?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s show notes to our own respective blogs, that?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s three different places where you can click-and-listen. No way to measure that, as far as I know. This is a problem every podcaster has. Downloads of the MP3s is one thing. Who listens, how many listeners there are and where they are, is another. Yet that?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s the most important statistic of all to aid you in creating and tailoring the content in your show to your listener demographic.”

The reverse could also be true. More than one person could list to a download as well.

(via Trevor Cook)

Stellar Browse. Again, it was cheap 🙂 I need to ban myself from visiting either Sitepoint or eBay for a while, however I’m hoping to learn a bit about the scripts behind it by buying a site already set up, as I did with Godly Reminders.

Noticed this site via a submission to Godlyreminders:
http://ownapieceofamerica.us/index.php
I suppose it’s similar to One Share. Interesting idea, I wonder how legit it is though?

From ignoring the problem to going to far.

A little bleg here, because she who must be obeyed has just about spent all the proceeds from the sale of The Blog Herald on the new palace I’ll be moving into in about 2 weeks time (after I also spend a week laying the flooring….). I’m way to busy designing templates and doing other work for b5media to actually get around to actually designing a new template for duncanriley.com. I’ve been wanting to do it for weeks, but some little voice in my head keeps telling me its not fair to spend time designing a template for myself when I’ve got a whole pile of ppl at b5media who are waiting for templates to be done.

I’ve not got a lot of spare dosh to spend, but I’m happy to pay a small amount for it to be done (if I’m happy with the results) + the design will get lots of free links from this site and a probably 5 or 6 other PR 6 blogs that I either own or have friends who owe me will link to.

It’s got to be flash though! 3 colum prefered, doesn’t have to be combination 2 + body or body + 2, can be an old fashioned 1 + body + 1.

Some of the sites that I’ve looked at that I like the feel of:
Ajaxian: I love everything about this site. Font’s used for the body in particular
UX Magazine: love the header
Hotel Tamara: odd layout but again, like the fonts
The Travelling Guys: nice site, I’m particularly fond of the bg pic, just not convinced I could get away with a brown background.

Niall Kennedy’s blog comes to mind as well.

I’d love a Western Australian feel to the site, so earthy colors perhaps? I’ve got some great pics available as well from my flying escapades.

If you’re interested email me at [email protected]

Here, here and here as per the links in at Tech.Memorandum.

Yep, I’ve finally succumbed and bought an iPod, a little 1gb iPod Nano. She who must be obeyed will be annoyed. Music? what music, it’s straight across to The Podcast Network to subscribe to some quality podcasts. On the list so far: G’day World, The Media Center Show (note to Cameron, no subscribe with iTunes button for this podcast)….then off to the US, with Dave Winer’s Daily Coffee Notes, the Engadget Podcast, The Gilmour Gang and something call PodTechNews which sounded interesting. This should start me off.

First thoughts about the experience (I’m still downloading these at the moment).

The iPod Nano is so small it’s quite amazing. iTunes on the other hand sucks. It’s a slow as a wet weekend to use in terms of browsing. I mean I’ve got a reasonable broadband connection, and yet I’ve got to wait for each page to download like I’d gone back 5 years and was using dial up again.

Impressions on Podcasting pages: you guys need to make this as idiot proof as possible. If you know that the vast majority of people use iPods (79% ish market share roughly??), and therefore the VAST majority of them are going to be using iTunes, why the hell wouldn’t you all have a subscribe with iTunes button on your site? I’m totally new to iPod ownership so I’ve got NO IDEA as to how to use an RSS feed in iTunes, or even sync a Bloglines account with an iPod, and I’d be considered fairly knowledgeable compared to many I’d think. Remember KISS!

The Poms ban the Australian tourism ads which conclude with “where in the bloody hell are you”. Mind you, I don’t really get the slogan, I’d think something like “where the hell are you” or “where the f*ck are you” would actually be a more accurate use of Australian English, certainly the later is something I say regularly when speaking to people on mobile phones on the Telstra network 🙂