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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.
Techcrunch moves to part feeds, will Scoble and others boycott it?
All of a sudden the previously full feed from Techcrunch has moved to a part feed (click image for larger shot)…is this an accident or a deliberate move? Will Scoble and others who hate part feeds now boycott Techcrunch? Developing… 🙂 Tags: Techcrunch, Scoble
Bitttorrent sites reviewed
Nice review of Bittorrent sites over at this blog (no idea whether it has a name or not…?!) (via Slashdot). I’ve never heard of a couple of the sites, in particular the top ranked BT Junkie. Worth a look. Tags: Bittorrent
Adsense is dead, and Digital Incest!
For those of you new to duncanriley.com, or who haven’t followed my ramblings since the Blog Herald days, I like to read and subscribe to ebook gurus. Most of them are completely and utterly full of sh*t, but I’ve always found them interesting from a marketing perspective. But I digress once again, because for once […]
Jericho reviewed
So I finally got my hands on a very nice, HD Dobly Surround Sound Copy of Jericho. As per Fridays post, no comment as to how 🙂 General thoughts. Not bad, not bad indeed. I can’t get she who must be obeyed to watch it though because the premise of the show is too dark […]
Lazy Sunday
All for funny money of course 🙂
NY Times looking for a WordPress developer
Michael over at the Solostream blog posts that the NY Times is looking for a WordPress developer. As much as it’s nice to know that even a huge MSM company like the NY Times group is using WordPress, the criteria is a bit rough, in particular “2-3 years experience developing and maintaining WordPress blogs”. That […]
Techcrunch rips Zecco
Techcrunch reviews Zecco. WTF? God help us that there’s a startup with a business plan that actually might meet an unmet niche….oh no, because Techcrunch would much rather hype flash in the pan over capitalised and business plan free startups that create solutions for problems that don’t exist. But probably more seriously here, who at […]
Weird Al does it again
Is Mike Arrington and TechCrunch taking legal action against Techcrush?
Interesting post at Techcrush, a Web 2.0 review site: We put down our pencils here at the Crush-Room for the next days due to possible legal issues. Please stay with us, we will see how things are going to work out. Legal issues? we’ll the only possible person who could have legal issues with the […]
CBS and Channel 10 suck
Last night was the debut episode of Jericho, the new American series based around an end of the world sort of scenario…and a series that for once we haven’t got to wait 6-9 months to see after its debuted in the States..indeed we got to see it 12 hours after it’s US debut. I’ve got […]
MeeVee: you just know this is a Web 2.0 startup bound to fail
Techcrunch covers an upgrade to the Web 2.0 television guide site MeeVee. It’s a service that offers….a television guide….I’m so under whelmed, after all it’s something MSN and Yahoo to name but a few have been offering for years, not to forget hundreds of other sites. But it’s Web 2.0 I hear people saying, it’s […]
A note if you’ve come here due to receiving spam
A note if you’ve come here to duncanriley.com due to receiving spam. It isn’t me. I’ve got a catch all on duncanriley.com for incoming email, but aside from one email address there isn’t any others being used. Please don’t send me abusive emails or remove requests, simply, someone is spoofing @duncanriley.com email addresses and sending […]
Why doesn’t Google love Canada and Australia?
Interesting post over at Jensense. Apparently you can’t become a Qualified Company in the Google Advertising Professionals program if your company is in Canada. It appears that you can’t be a member of the program if your company is in Australia as well…and yet if your company is in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, […]
Another blog on the block
I was sitting here thinking to myself hmmm…I haven’t posted anything here in over 2 days…news wise it’s been really quite, and with the golden child at home recovering from a tonsillectomy I’ve not been 100% in front of my computer either…indeed, I thought I might write a post about how quite it’s been news […]
Welcome to Engadgetscape
Engadget has a new look. Nice. But am I the only one at this stage to have noticed that the back end changes in terms of voting on comments etc is Netscape. Clever work by Jason Calacanis to leverge the scripting from Netscape into his Blogsmith platform though. Still no support for trackbacks though. As […]
The sleeping minow wakes
Performancing has a job listed for a Google Blogger. The company hiring is a firm by the name of Visual Connect. It’s an Australian company, never heard of them prior to now, but it’s the second time in as many weeks I’ve seen Australian companies expand into blog network plays. Of course, new blog networks […]
Monday Morning
Monday morning sucks, and yet it’s good all at the same time. There’s usually nothing much good to read in my Bloglines subscriptions, and that sucks, because it’s still Sunday night in the States. But the fact that I’ve got nothing much to read is actually a good thing because it frees up time to […]
The Blogging Times seeks an intern
Minic over at The Blogging Times is advertising for an intern. It’s a non-paid position but by being part of that team you not only get exposure at the site, you also get to pick the brains of the Hunter S Thompson of the Blogosphere, Chartreuse. Recommended.
An Inconvenient Truth, or the futility in trying
Todays philosophical thought. Does your collective wisdom and experience mean diddly squat when no body believes you? Is it futile in trying when those parallel to you or above you won’t accept facts because those facts are inconvenient to their overall picture of how things should be? Is it futile trying to persuade the unpersuadable? […]
Open source Digg-style CMS?
Jason Calacanis points to Federated Media’s new Digg style site:SearchMob. Haven’t had a deep look at it, but what I did notice is the link to the CMS, a Web 2.0 Open Source package called Pligg. Yep, you to can now run your own Digg clone from the comfort of your own home and all […]