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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.
Video killed the Podcasting Star
My post for another week at The Blogging Times was on video (again)…and naturally I had some fun with video editing 🙂 Enjoy:
I see red
Nick Carr on the growing communist tones in Web 2.0. He’s not the only person to have seen it. You can see it in Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail book as well. Web 2.0 shouldn’t be about ideology in terms of being a purist pursuit, it should only be about freedom of choice and anything […]
This is fucking hillarious
Scoble reports that Tim Bray of Sun fame is in strife after dropping the f word. OK, so sometimes even humble I self censor myself here at duncanriley.com at times, after all you never really want to offend people too much, however sometimes there really is no reasonable alternative to using fuck, or even fucking […]
The bandwidth conundrum
Scoble on Video: First, the videos I?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢m putting up are around 200MB a piece. The bandwidth distributors I know are charging $.14 or more PER GIGABYTE to distribute those videos. So, that comes to $28, or more for 1,000 downloads (if my math is right). Wait a second here. We?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢re going to collect $10 in […]
Why the Pay Per Post folks are rubbing their hands with glee: it’s all free publicity
Jeff Jarvis ways in on Pay Per Post via Jason Calacanis, who brings it up (yet) again. I know Jason has called Pay Per Post a cancer, and whilst I’ve previously disagreed on some levels (essentially I’m not against others using it, but they should force disclosure), if it is indeed cancer, Jarvis and Calacanis […]
OMG They’ve seen the light: Daylight Savings in WA?
This from The West. We might even get daylight savings by December 1. Now if only they’d allow the shops to open on a Sunday we could really join the 20th 21st century.
So the YouTube secret is out: the big guys took a stake as well
The Blogging Times has the scoop:Universal, Sony BMG Music entertainment and the Warner Music Group have all taken small share holding in YouTube. In you can’t beat them, join them I guess, but on a deeper note are the big record and movie houses finally changing their tune? (pardon the pun 🙂 ).
The numbers still don’t add up 2
SEOmoz has a brilliant post researching metrics using real log file data and comparing it to available metrics. Their conclusion: “This survey represents only a tiny sampling of sites in a niche sector, albeit a relatively popular one in the blogosphere and webdev/tech space. Based on the evidence we’ve gathered here, it’s safe to say […]
From the Arse end of the world to the rest of it
Darren posts about our forthcoming trip to Toronto. Darren gets the easier of our trips. Bunbury is roughly 2 1/2 hours South of Perth, and Perth is literally at the arse end of the world…they say it’s the most remote capital city in the world, and they aren’t lying. Unlike Darren’s trip, god must of […]
Free TV?
Viidoo. This is probably illegal…but the quality is amazing. A full review at Web TV Hub (via Digg). Free US TV channels…Im sitting here watching as clear as day NBC11 from the West Coast of the States…it’s apparently warm there at the moment, not that I’ve got any idea what the temps are in Celcius..worth […]
Waroona Show
My new photo set at Flickr is my best pics from the Waroona Show. I’m going to reserve my comment on how the show was…I don’t want to be the blogger who is negative on everything, but suffice to say, the Harvey Show has less of a crowd and a similar portfolio of things to […]
Blogging Times preview
OK, fun with webcams and video, but here’s the preview for my weekly column at The Blogging Times this week which will be online shortly…and yes, interesting light affects when I have the blinds open in my office 🙂 Tags: The Blogging Times
OMFG! Does some one have an email alert bar yet?
226 unread in my inbox as I write this…and worse still there would be another hundred emails I’ve flicked through and not responded to yet. I need a Homeland Security style alert bar/ boxes thing, and I’d go to high/ red alert! On other things, I bought an webcam today…ok, so I already had one […]
More quality from Google News
Check this one out: Linking to (no direct link..I’m not giving Google juice to this page): http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/kasert/view?PostID=18545 In case it disappears: Tags: Google News
Has Chartreuse finally gone to far?
Chartreuse Reloaded is finally up. The pdf info sheet linked to on the site states there’s going to be a $9.95 monthly charge for membership, although I take it some of the “cool” kids will probably get a free pass. I wrote last week that their were no rules, and I suppose if anyone could […]
Kangaroo Sighted on Austrian Highway…damn roos
The headline says it all: Kangaroo Sighted on Austrian Highway (via Fark), and that’s Austria, not Australia. OK, so the kangaroo’s hoping down the street is a bit of a cliche of Australia, after all, you don’t see them in most cities (oddly enough Canberra is an except), but you do where I live. She […]
When VC’s disappoint, or why I’m happy Fred Wilson didn’t invest in b5media
You know, sometimes by reading a persons blog you think you get a fairly good picture of the person, and until today I had a pretty good impression of Fred Wilson. Admitedly, the guy isn’t in my Bloglines subs, but I do fairly regularly visit his blog. I’ve always thought of him as being an […]
Pandora’s Box
OK, so I’m late to the party on this one, but I’ve been spending a good part of the last week on Pandora. The sound quality is top notch, and the selection technology good to boot. Ignore the fact if you register that you’re suppose to be in the States, any 5 digits make up […]
Ummm…I’m on this weeks Blog Herald podcast
Im the guest on this weeks Blog Herald podcast. Aside from saying Ummm to often, I think I did ok, at least I held relatively held myself back when asked an interesting question towards the end 🙂
God Hates Blogs
Looks like the looney religous right isn’t into blogging because it’s evil, according to Kevin D. Denee of the Restored Church of God: Should teenagers and others in the Church express themselves to the world through blogs? Because of the obvious dangers; the clear biblical principles that apply; the fact that it gives one a […]