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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.
Haiku headlines from the Wall Street Journal
Ethan Smith is taking the piss, right? A new way to drive traffic perhaps?
Block Categories in Robots.txt?
Michael Gray advisers in his WP advice video: block categories in Robots.txt to help Google SERPs. Interesting. We all know duplicate content is bad in Google, but it never dawned on me to consider category pages. I’ve got some work to do in the next couple of days 🙂
Will the success of the Wii affect Harvey Norman’s Share Price
Latest Wii news: Wii is outselling PS3 2 to 1 in the US. Question for Australian readers: Harvey Norman, arguably Australia’s biggest retailer of computer + electrical goods doesn’t stock Nintendo’s Wii, not just the console but the games either. The mind boggles as to why, but knowing that the Wii is a huge success, […]
Save the Polar Bear
Want to know what’s wrong with the hard left, the environazis and animal rights activitists: they want to kill this polar bear: More at the SMH + News.com.au. Lets see, Polar Bears are facing extinction (allegedly) and yet the very same people who carry on about this want to kill the bear. Obviously drugs are […]
Australians working online, let us rejoice, we’re all about to take a paycut
SMH: Aussie dollar hits 10-year high How do I respond to this without droping the F word over and over and over again. Sure, it might make it cheaper to visit the US, but ALL of my income at the moment is in US Dollars. And lets talk rip offs, I ordered a couple of […]
Africans show how to scam Google News
I was interested when I read the headline in my Google News feed: Start Your Blog Now – B?ɬ©africa-Opinions, listed as being Central African Republic. The content extract even sounded more appealing: “You?Ǭ¥re about to discover the complete How-To guide to set up your very own Video Blog. And we also show you how you […]
Operation Floor Lift commences
Nearly 12 months ago we took possession of our new house, and I spent 2 weeks of literally back breaking work laying the floor in the new house, timber laminate was all that we could afford at the time, mind you, it was still $6500 just for the laminate. About 3 months later the floor […]
Twitter Badges
I’m not sure whether I should include this in the side bar, but I’ll try it in a post for now. follow duncanriley at http://twitter.com
Too much noise, step away from the keyboard
Michael Gray doesn’t mince his words, but he is mostly spot on, although I would add that the next Danny Sullivan is probably posting away on some unknown blog as we speak. It’s a catch 22, yes, there’s too much noise, too much junk, but you’ve got to start somewhere as well, and who am […]
So long Zefrank, and thanks for all the fish
Zefrank’s last show. Sad. Thank you Ze for entertaining us for a year.
Congrats to LifeHacker
I’d comment on this post, but unfortunately like all Gawker Media blogs you need an invite to comment and so far I’ve only got commenting rights at Valleywag (hint, hint 🙂 ). Congrats though to LifeHacker on picking up the award for best group weblog at The Bloggies. To be honest I probably only subscribed […]
Yahoo launches Brick House, but is she that sexy?
TechCrunch reports on Yahoo BrickHouse, “a new semi-autonomous business unit to foster new product development”, but is she good looking, after all, brickhouse is slang for “Full-figured female. Really built.”, or alternatively “very voluptuous woman, NOT like Halley Berry or Jessica alba. Thick and tough like Beyonce or J’lo”. Maybe Yahoo! has a fat arse, […]
Hope for the online gambling community
Reuters: U.S. Rep. Barney Frank is considering a bill to repeal a ban imposed last year on online gambling, said a spokesman for the lawmaker on Wednesday. “Chairman Frank is considering legislation,” said Steven Adamske, spokesman for the Massachusetts Democrat, who chairs the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee. Now if only we had a […]
The iRack launched
This is clever:
Where Land Cruisers go to die: Portland, Oregon
This clever kid is importing old Land Cruisers from Australia to convert to biodiesel for resale in the US, apparently Australian Land Cruisers are the “best cared-for”. I wonder if he needs to convert them to left hand drive? At least now we know where old Land Cruisers go to die: Portland, Oregon. There’s got […]
AuctionAds looking good
I’ve been watching with interest the launch by Jeremy Schoemaker of AuctionAds , a sort of eBay meets Adsense product with ads like this: I’ve held of signing up until now because I was waiting to be convinced by some hard proof that they convert competitively, and it now looks like EarnersBlog has some proof. […]
Organising Information
Just wrote a post at 901am on the latest efforts by the Chinese Government to further censor blogs and remembered that I’d read an article in the last week of so about how the censorship regime works in China. Thanks to the wonders of Web 2.0 I found the article in my BlueDot feed. OK, […]
New Wii commercials
Looks like the emphasis is moving onto Mii creation. In a house of 3 people we’ve got at least 10 Mii’s on our Wii now, the golden child loves setting them up, although name choices such as xcgddc are interesting…I’ll have to work on his typing 🙂
Is Sensis driving traffic to Yellow Pages by stuffing White Pages?
Anyone tried a business search lately on whitepages.com.au? Where as once the site was a great resource for finding contact details, it’s now as useless as tits on a bull, even when using the correct business name. Pop across to yellowpages.com.au and it works straight away. This is a fairly new phenomena, certainly I’ve noticed […]
Why Australia will never catch up in Web 2.0
SFGate: Where neo-nomads’ ideas percolate If there’s no WiFi there’s no Web 2.0 office, there’s no Web 2.0 culture, there’s no Web 2.0 development on the scale we see in the US. Whilst the Australian Government (and Opposition) remain obsessed with regulating the internet, nothing is being proposed or done to increase the affordability of […]