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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.
90% chance that Google is in talks to acquire YouTube, 10% chance it will happen
I mentioned in passing, in this post, my theory on leaks. You see, in this post I used the figure that 50% of all leaks are authorised by the company involved as either a way to talk up/ hype a launch, or as a way to market test an idea or product. I used that […]
There are no rules
Sometimes I find it’s difficult to know what to write for my weekly column at The Blogging Times, and then I just threw out the rule book. Here’s a side thought though, is there a word to describe this style of writing? Chartreuse does it best, I’m literally a pale imitation, and yet it’s somewhat […]
Al-Qaeda ‘planned Ashes attack
I’d normally make a joke about Shane Warne and drugs at this stage was this story not serious, from News.com.au THE Australian and English cricket teams were to be killed with sarin gas by some of those responsible for the July 7 attacks in London, a friend of a terrorist claims. The man, known as […]
The new Firefox is lightning quick
Just read Scoble saying that the new Firefox, currently at RC 2 is quick. He’s right, just downloaded it then, I’ve immediately noticed the different. Also a tip for Firefox users, if you haven’t downloaded it yet, get DownThemAll. From their page: “DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an […]
News.com.au in very bad taste
News.com.au reports on Lauren Huxley, a women severely attacked last year returning to the Spring Races. Simple story you might think, if it wasn’t for the caption under the picture: An alleged attack? WTF? Was it a love bite that put Lauren in hospital? Did she do it to herself? Alleged?!?! Someone call Media Watch […]
Viral Marketing 101
Credit where it’s due, Quadszilla over at SEO Black Hat might just be on to something with this post.
Big Brother is alive and well in England
The Guardian reports on a chap getting two years and eight months in prisons for the crime of “hate speech”. Apparently the goose wrote some racially offensive stuff on a website. Get this, he got an additional 6 months for possession of kiddie porn! Yep, apparently in England using racial abuse is over 5 times […]
Tesltra sacks Blogger for being some what honest
Cam has a scoop. Idiots. Good help someone that they write the truth, and in this case it was only in part the truth, after all, we all know how completely and utterly up sh*t creek Telstra are as a Telco 🙂
Technorati launches Vlog, but wouldn’t it be nice if they actually focused on the core product first
Technorati has launched a daily Vlog. Great. Great way to promote the service, but I can’t help but ask the question: why spend time doing a Vlog when your rank service is still broken? Case in point: Notice the 862 incoming links down the bottom, and yet it’s ranked on 628 links? There are 37% […]
Liz Strauss joins the Opinion section at The Blogging Times…and yes, I still dig this as a business plan
Congrats to b5’s Successful Blogger (literally) Liz Strauss on news that’s she’s joined me and the party that is happening at The Blogging Times. I’ve got nothing to disclose at this point about the site, I don’t own a share in it, but I do get paid a small retainer to write a weekly column […]
Play Pacman
Ok. so Im playing with the Google Gadget things.. but this is sort of fun. The odd thing though is that the sizing doesn’t want to work…odd.
Google Gadgets
Just what the world needs, more plugins for webpages…although having said this the flexibility with some of these is pretty good.
The future of political blogging is here
I’m surprised none of the A-List picked up on this. David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative (Tory) Party in the UK has launched his own blog, and to make it more interesting, it’s a video blog at that. And dare I say, it’s pretty damn good. Sure, I’m not interested as an Australian in […]
Watching Big Brother
James Martin has launched Google WatchDog with this post. It’s too late James and Lynn. Google already is big brother, or didn’t you get the memo 🙂 Looks like another blog to add to Bloglines.
Technorati just made spam blogging a whole lot easier
Steve Rubel: Technorati Intros Smarter Blog Search Feeds Spam blogging just got a whole lot easier. Why rip a feed or two when you can just get a smart topic feed from Technorati on auto pilot and without the need for an account. OK, so they’re part feeds. Guess what, the parsing part from the […]
Germany menaced by giant bug
The Register reports on a giant bug menacing the German countryside. The really odd thing for me is that it would appear that the satellite images were scanned. Scanned? weren’t they digital images to start with? is there a giant factory of Google Earth workerbees scanning satellite imagery for our enjoyment? Odd.
Is China at War with the United States
China Attempted To Blind U.S. Satellites With Laser: Defense News.com If China has indeed fired lasers at US Satellites, then wouldn’t this be normally considered an act of war? If the US is indeed turning a blind eye to this, then what else is the US Government not sharing?
MySpace could be worth $15 billion US in 3 years
This is nuts. Beyond nuts. Interesting usage figures though, given I’ve read elsewhere lately that the 100 million users figure for MySpace is rubbish due to inactive accounts etc, Reuters claims MySpace has 90 million active users. Amazing, but still a crazy valuation.
Scoble launches the Scoble Show
The Scoble Show. Got to say it’s pretty damn good. Scoble avoids the mistakes of many in podcasting by keeping the interviews fairly short and punchy so they don’t drag on (like that horrid podcast he was on with Arrington and Om over at Techcruch the other day). I’ve only watched a few so far […]
34 million blogs in China: report
Interesting figures from the China Daily: 34 million blogs in China, but 70% haven’t been updated in over a month. 17 million bloggers in China. 75 million Chinese read blogs (for memory there’s about 110 million people on the internet in China, so thats a big figure). Technorati tracks approx 50 million blogs. Still don’t […]