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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.
The Blog Herald went to PR 6
Interesting, just dropped by my old stomping ground The Blog Herald, the site has dropped down from it’s PR 7 to a PR 6. I wonder why?
Do it now!
Today’s inspirational post bought to you by Quadszilla. Of course he’s right, which is why I’m busy building stuff myself, but when you’ve got a big ticket idea you need money to fund that…that as they say, is a story for later in the year, all things being equal 🙂
No blog is an island unto itself.
Over the weekend Robert Scoble started a big bushfire, claiming that big blogs don’t link to other blogs. He’s right, but unfortunately for Scoble he aimed his gun in the wrong direction at wounded some friendly combatants, in particular Engadget and Gizmodo, who in return are really, really pissed. But I digress somewhat, because Scoble […]
Happy Australia Day!
OMG! IT’S OFFICIAL: CROWDED HOUSE TO REFORM!
I read in the weekend papers that there was a strong chance of this happening, but it’s confirmed: Crowded House is reforming after a break of 10 years, minus of course Paul Hester who very sadly took his own life in 2005. The great new for fans who were never particularly fond of Tim Finn […]
Second Life a pyramid scheme?
Valleywag claims that Second Life is a pyramid scheme. They’re in part right. When I was a lot more active in SL (I’m down to maybe once a month these days and I’ve long since cancelled my paid account) pyramid style banking schemes were common and I probably lost $10-$20 investing some of my money […]
Want to come to Australia? you’ll need DIC
Australians are fond of shortening names of Government Departments (in part because the web address for each is usually shortened as well), the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is known as DFAT, the Australian Tax Office is commonly known at the ATO, and here in Western Australian the former Department of Fair Trading was […]
Performancing Implodes
I’ve not said anything about the stuff going on previously at Performancing mostly out of respect for Nick Wilson, the previous CEO, but it just keeps getting worse with news that Performanicng Partners, the advertising arm of Performancing is being closed down, this a month after Performancing Metrics was shut and Nick Wilson resigned from […]
My 5 minutes of being Dave Winer
Yep, I’ve suffered a bout of grumpy old blogger syndrome. No, I’m not claiming my blog was the first one, but this thread at 901am got me started. The new owners of The Blog Herald (no link love anymore) took it upon themselves to remove my name from the author column at the bottom of […]
Why I wont be upgrading to WP 2.1 yet
Aaron has a good guide as to what to expect in WordPress 2.1. I won’t be rushing to upgrade due to this line: many plugins will no longer work in 2.1 due to deprecation of database table variables Too much hassle at this stage, and I’m still struggling to upgrade to 2.0.7 on all my […]
BlogCatalog on the market
It really is a sign of a strong and mature market place when quality sites regularly hit the market, and BlogCatalog proves the point. The site is currently for saleThe site sold in 1 day at Sitepoint for $40,000 USD. Congrats to all involved. (thanks to David for the tip).
Bryanboy struck by the Shared Hosting scam
Bryanboy shares his experiences with MidPhase. It’s a case of the Shared Hosting scam striking again, the one where by so-called high use shared hosting packages aren’t really because usually buried somewhere in the fine print (never in an easy place, nor disclosed up front) is a clause about CPU/ server usage which states they […]
Eatonweb up for sale at Sitepoint
The first of the blog directories…and I mean *THE FIRST*, the EatonWeb Portal is up for sale at Sitepoint, current bid at the time of writing is $4k with a BIN of $15k. From what I can read it’s fallen on tough times, zero revenue, although it’s still got a PR of 7. At $15k […]
Plain Wrong
From the only in America files: A teacher is convicted of endangering minors after porn popups appeared on her computer. A 16 year old kid has his life ruined in Arizona after child porn is found on his computer. A forensics specialist finds 200 separate trojans, malware and spyware. All US based podcasters could be […]
TypePad is down!
Went to visit a couple of Wired articles/ blog posts, I got this, no idea as for how long TypePad has been down (it’s 14:30 +9GMT as I type this), but no doubt that others will notice it soon: Tags: TypePad, SixApart
It’s easy to manipulate top blogs, just hire a PR firm
Multichannel Merchant reports on the expansion of UK gadget merchant Firebox into the US market. Unremarkable you’d think, accept for these juicy parts: Bill Linn, a partner with Sandbox Strategies [Firebox’s PR firm], says his firm looked for blogs popular with techies or pop culture enthusiasts, then e-mailed them messages about unique products, deals, and […]
Google’s Blogger now supporting your own URL
This is big news! It’s fair to say that its taken long enough, but at long last Blogger supports private URL’s, beyond the previous abilities to use your own URL for posting but hosting it elsewhere, but to use it with Blogger (or Google as the case may be) as the host. The quote from […]
Windows Home Server sounds good
Bill Gates has announced Windows Home Server at CES. Sounds like a good idea and it’s something I’d think about buying, however how rapped up in DRM is it going to be? Will I be able to store my ripped music on it without any hassles?
Justice Kirby’s MySpace page a Fraud…really?
The Sydney Morning Herald reports on the fake MySpace page authored under the name of leading Australian High Court Activist Judge Michael Kirby. I wonder what gave it away? Was it the “I’m a Pimp” headline?, or the friends list?. The really hilarious thing is the quote from the the MySpace people. The case, which […]
Thank God, Dave Taylor articulates my own suspicions on the Vista Laptop Blogger Scandal
I’d been hoping to bring this up in Gday World this week, but I never got the chance, because I’ve always seen the Microsoft Vista Laptop Bloggers scandal for what it is, aside from a marketing ploy, but a marketing ploy that had a focus..on hardware. The reason Microsoft sent out those laptops wasn’t alone […]