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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.
Sometimes the attacks are uncalled for, defending Micheal Arrington
I know Cam of Gday World fame will read this and think that I’m sucking up to Arrington again, but as long time readers will know, my comment is neither for sale, nor is it anything other than representative of my honest beliefs. Of course, as to the matter of whether they are flawed or […]
Know More Media adds 10 new sites
Congrats to the team at Know More Media on the addition of ten new blogs. These guys continue to grow with some great sites. I’d love to know what sort of figures they are doing now, out of personal interest only. Certainly business is a high paying vertical market to be in. Correction: My […]
Studivz…did someone say bubble?
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch reports on the sale of German language Facebook Clone Studivz for 100 million Euros (sorry, no idea how to type the Euro symbol). The site apparently does have 1 million users who one would presume would primarily reside in Germany, but 100 Euros per user as an acquisition price? WTF? It’s […]
Catch me at G’Day World all this week
Obligitory plug, although given last nights Podcast where Cam and I probably offended at least 1 billion people world wide, perhaps I shouldn’t be promoting it, but if you’re interested I’m Co-Hosting the G’Day World Podcast this week with Cam Reilly (no relation). One podcast down and I’ve already broken all my personal rules: no […]
Filipinos taking over blogosphere
Joey Alarilla at CNet Asia notes the rise of Pinoy bloggers into positions of prominence in the blogosphere. Not before time, and thoroughly deserved. Congrats in particular to Jayvee on his recent promotion, to others he’s definitely a blogger to watch.
Comment spam is getting even more out of control
Maybe it’s just the new year/ silly season spike (comment spammers normally ramp up spam at this time of year because it’s less likely to get picked up as people are away) but it would appear more than ever that comment spam is getting even more out of control. I cleared approx 15,000 comment spam […]
Time names Wii Sports Video Game of the Year
More good news on the games front for Nintendo. To quote: There is no possible way to say this enough times: great graphics don’t make great games. Perfect Dark Zero looked like a Titian, but it was a snooze. Wii Sports?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùa mini-sports anthology that includes golf, boxing, tennis, baseball and bowling?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùlooks like Colecovision. The little […]
WordPress eating comments
Apologies to those who have commented in the last couple of hours with no luck, the WP db bug has struck again, it might have been the 15,000 odd spam comments sitting on the install causing an issue, which have since been deleted. I received a number of notifications of comments that were simply blank, […]
If your Ford wasn’t a lemon already…
It soon will be. Ask anyone who has ever owned a Falcon in Australia, including the BA, they’ll explain. I learnt after the EA, thankfully. 🙂
I’m Spiderman
Another meme, but I couldn’t help it, via Dave Winer: Your results: You are Spider-Man Spider-Man 60% Superman 40% Batman 35% The Flash 20% Robin 10% Wonder Woman 0% Supergirl 0% Green Lantern 0% Catwoman 0% Hulk 0% Iron Man 0% You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility. Click […]
Performancing and PayPerPost
It looks like Santa Claus was kind to Nick Wilson and the team behind Performancing, with news that the metrics arm of Performancing has been sold off to PayPerPost. Naturally it would be remiss of me not to offer congratulations to Nick and the team on the sale, I have little doubt that the money […]
Melbourne and the English Speaking Peoples
Back at the grindstone again after 2 weeks in Melbourne, during of which Melbourne, some would argue not surprisingly, experienced it’s coldest ever Christmas Day, some 15 degrees (celcius) and snow in the high country down to 900m (I’d note when I say 15 the wind chill factor was significantly colder again). Indeed for most […]
2006 in review
I was all ready to give a glowing valedictory to 2006, until I read Skeletor’s summation of the year that was over at The Spin Starts Here. For those of you not inclined to click on the link, here are a couple of highlights: The acquisition of YouTube by Google and News Ltd’s belated discovery […]
PS3s Being Traded For Wiis
GigaGamez reports on people trading PS3s for Wiis. Hilarious. I’ve been away from my Wii for over a week now, and I’m missing it already. Wii games are still as rare as hens teeth. I managed to pick up the last copy of the Sponge Bob Square Pants Wii game from JB HiFi at the […]
Wikiasari: yet another search engine
It’s supposedly Christmas, although you’d think it’s the silly season with news at Mashable and TechCrunch that Jimmy Wales is going into the search engine game. Just because Wikipedia was successful, it would appear as though Jimmy Wales has been drinking so much of his own Kool Aid he now thinks he can conquer the […]
Old WordPress blogs don’t seem to age gracefully
Apologies to those who were unable to leave a comment here at duncanriley.com over the last 2 days, it would appear as though the site gained a db corruption that needed a quick repair. Odd thing is though, I’ve noticed other blogs I help people out with, or a few oldies I still have, all […]
An Australian Blogging Conference
Des has the details. I was in on one of the emails prior to the announcement, looks like some great speakers lined up, free registration, and Queensland in March usually isn’t quite as hot as Queensland in February..but it will be warm 🙂 There’s also a call for sponsorship, if you’re interested Des has the […]
The WSJ called, they said it’s 2004 again.
Steve Rubel reports on Joseph Rago of the Wall Street Journal writing an Op-Ed piece stating that bloggers [are] fools that are read by imbeciles then continues that bloggers “ride along with the MSM like remora fish on the bellies of sharks, picking at the scraps.” Yikes. Some one forgot to take their happy pills […]
Maybe SixApart knows something everyone else doesn’t?
Tech Digest reports SixApart’s Mena Trott saying that Vox is winning over burnt out bloggers. I see the logic, and I understand the how, but WTF? Surely this isn’t the key target area for Vox? “People have really embraced it,” she says. “They’re saying they think blogging is fun again. A lot of people got […]
My Christmas wish: that people would either abandon Feedburner or pressure them to get it to play nicely with Bloglines
Another day, the same Chadstone foodcourt. With she who must be obeyed and the golden child catching a movie at Chaddy I’ve got some time to catch up on some reading. And what do I find? Refreshing bloody feeds. Not all of them, just the ones from people using Feedburner. Every single one of them. […]