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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.
New Crowded House to debut in the UK March 19
From the official Crowded House mailing list: Having spent the last couple of weeks in the studio, Crowded House are keen to try out their new line-up live in front of their fans. Neil Finn, Nick Seymour and Matt Hart will be joined on stage by new drummer Matt Sherrod at the Thekla Social in […]
The state of Australian Journalism
Slow news day, or have News Ltd just sunk to even lower lows? The lead photo story at news.com.au at 7:25pm Sat AWST: Does the tambourine eat your butt when you visit news.com.au? or is it simply a matter of extraterrestrial phenomena in Adelaide. Quality Australian journalism at its finest thanks to Rupert Murdoch.
PayPerPost and Robert Scoble
I’m nearly at a loss in describing this, other than to reiterate what I’ve said previously: Robert Scoble speaking at a PayPerPost gig lends his credibility to the folks at PayPerPost, shots as follows from the main page at www.postiecon.com: They’ve certainly got the slick slimy greasy marketing part down pat. Tags: PayPerPost, […]
The summer we never had, in Autumn
About time…give or take a couple of months 🙂
Life is Short
I was all prepared to post today about how living in the fastest growing part of Australia (officially) is becoming a pain, even if the growth figure of just under 10,000 extra people in 5 years came off a low base of 50,000. Every day or two I’m now having to deal with banked up […]
Standards aren’t improving at The Blog Herald
I tried to leave a comment at The Blog Herald, I was moderated or deleted, not sure, so I’ll post here. Tony LongHung at the Blog Herald writes: the linked article at The Boston Herald: For the record it was Victoria that banned YouTube videos. I’m not shy of writing the occasional sensationalist headline, but […]
Would you visit a social network bought to you by The Australian?
TechCrunch bravos USA Today for going down the social networking path on their website. If The Australian, Australia’s version of USA Today went down the social networking path, would you use the service? Imagine it: Glenn Milne could serve the virtual drinks, and punch the Crikey team member could be one of the interactive games […]
BusinessLogs on the Market
Mike Rundles BusinessLogs design business and site is on the market at Sitepoint, bidding from $25k with a BIN at $55k. Surprising move. As a concept and business I would have thought it was worth more, however without Rundle with it I guess the valuation is some what closer to what it should be. Question […]
Syntagma takes the FM/ Glam path
This is clever thinking. If you’ve got the aggregation backend in place why not open it up to outsiders if you’re confident of being able to sell advertising against it and can provide a decent cut (in this case 70%) to the content creator. My only query at this stage is what the direct benefit […]
Australian Government to censor Bloggers, online publishers
In case you miss it, check out my latest post at 901am, prompted by today’s Crikey Subscriber email. Welcome to Communist Russia, Australian style….and no one believes me what I tell them that the Australian Liberal Party is as socialist as they come, be it in an agrarian flavour.
And the award for the weirdest thing you’ll see on YouTube this week goes to
This: Howard Lindzon in a Bra–the Remix. WTF doesn’t even cover this in terms of bizarre. (via 1938media)
Ning has the coolest downtime pic
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch posts about changes to Ning. I thought I’d drop by and take a look, found this shot. Way cool, and cute as well, although what does it say about Mac users? 🙂
Court ruling reaffirms immunity of site owners from legal action over comments
Good news for US based bloggers and owners of forums, guestbooks or any other type of site that allows visitors to make comments; a Federal Court ruling in the case of Universal Communication Systems v. Lycos, a case where Universal Communications systems sued Lycos for defamatory statements made on a message board (I presume the […]
The Nanny State Strikes Again
Will it ever end. Probably not. The Hyundai Commercial with the driving baby has been banned in Australia according to the SMH: The Advertising Standards Board ordered Hyundai to pull the advertisement for its Santa Fe model on Tuesday after it ruled that it depicted under-age driving and promoted unlawful behaviour. It also ruled that […]
Don’t worry about the noise, what if they crash?
According to the SMH, Sydney residents are upset by counter-terrorism training exercises being undertaken around the Sydney CBD by Army Black Hawks…due to the noise of the helicopters. Given the safety record of these birds, if I was a resident I’d be far more concerned about the odds of them crashing and killing people on […]
I make my debut in the NSW Election Campaign
I accidently stumbled onto NSW Premier Morris Iemma’s faux-blog today at News.com.au, and read a whole pile of irrelevant rubbish about Nick Grenier helping the Debham campaign (Greiner was a pretty good Premier but as a former Liberal Party Member I always saw Fahey as the pathetic disaster in Macquarie Street, but that’s another story)…anyhow […]
A World Without America
For all the US bashing in the world, this video makes a very, very good point about the positives the United States has bought to the table. (via Hot Air)
The Simpsons Movie
Its been going 18 years…I’m getting old! Trailer for the Simpsons Movie below, enjoy. Tags: Simpsons, Simpsons Movie
Applications open for inclusion in my Bluedot feed
I’ve discovered today, much to my own satisfaction, that at least one person reads my Bluedot feed. It’s not by any stretch of the imagination a Robert Scoble style link blog, but having said that it does probably share a few attributes. It’s an eclectic mix of my daily reading, sometimes a couple of links, […]
New Australian blog network launched
Phil Sim has the details. I wish them luck, particularly with Gizmodo Australia, but I ask this simple question: WTF do mainstream media folk know about blogging? I mean the best they can come up with in terms of how the new company “Allure” will operate is that they are ripping Nick Dentons model from […]