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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.
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:
New Template
Apologies for the work in progress, trying to be modern and testing it all locally with my WAMP install didn’t work, so I’ve reverted back to the old fashioned way: installing a template by tweaking it live. It was time for a new template. The old template, live for maybe 5 months, as much as […]
The day the new games system arrived
An ode to all those blogs that ran pictures of new gaming systems arriving last year; my new system arrived in the post today: The Box OMG, the contents! Yes! It’s a 30 year old, 1977 Atari CX2600 Woody! Up close Extras! More photos, of it plugged in and working to follow 🙂 Tags: […]
Wikipedia: the hypocrisy just keeps on growing
Nik Cubrilovic has the details @ TechCrunch: short version, despite its obsession with being non-commercial, and more recently punishing good webmasters everywhere by putting nofollow tags on the end of outgoing links, it looks like Jimbo Wales isn’t nofollowing links to his for profit Wikia sites. I’m not sure what the total wash up is […]
If talk about nothing is nothing, does it become nothing itself?
Tris Hussey on some folk waking up today and discovering what I’ve been saying for 6-9 months: we’ve reached a peak in blog growth, at least in the Western World, although oddly enough they’re calling it a plateau. Yawn. Technorati now reckons there is only 15.5 million active blogs. BS. Double BS even. Technorati has […]
Twitter dumps Australia
Via Ben Barren, Twitter is no longer supporting SMS in Australia. They’ve since updated the original post to say: “To clarify, we’re getting a new access number for Australia?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùas soon as we get the number, sms service will be back in action. We’re working on it right now and it’s a high priority.” But 99 […]
Universal Key
In the cool I want category, the Keyport, via NotCot: “KeyPort – an all in one key fob?¢‚Ǩ¬¶ just get specialized blanks cut to match your car, house, boat, locker, etc keys and the slot right in. In the press kit it says that it is ?¢‚Ǩ?ìcreated to complement your personal style and organize those […]
Starting the guilt complex: in The Age
The irony of this blog remains every day that it was only ever an after thought to my main projects, The Blog Herald, then Weblog Empire, the other blog network, and probably soon the next big thing or two, and yet somehow appearing in Top lists sort of creates this guilt that personally I should […]
Top 100 Australian Blogs: feeds via OPML update
A quick update on the original list which can still be downloaded by clicking here. Meg has run an update to the list + I’ve now got a feed for MadBull’s Annoyances. New blogs include: http://infosthetics.com/ http://www.skeptics.com.au/ http://andrewlanderyou.blogspot.com/ http://www.business2.com.au/ http://www.thinkprospect.com.au/blog/ http://nickcowie.com http://www.cantcoachthat.com/ http://the-riotact.com http://altnews.com.au/drop/ I’ve updated the original list to include all these blogs, so […]
New Crowded House record out July 2
From the official Crowded House email list: On 2nd July Crowded House release ‘Time On Earth’, their first studio album since 1993, with a line-up featuring founder members Neil Finn and Nick Seymour, former member Mark Hart and new drummer Matt Sherrod ‘Time On Earth’ tracklisting: 1. Nobody Wants To 2. Don’t Stop Now 3. […]