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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.
More proof that Australia is out of touch
This article on SEO from Australian IT. As Threadwatch headlines it: “Australian IT Now Teaching SEO Tricks from 1997”. This from our national newspaper. Yikes. I some journalists wonder why people are moving away from the MSM to blogs and other alternative news sources.
Chinese blog slips to the Top of Technorati
Amazing stuff: the top blog in terms of incoming links now at Technorati: this blog, a Chinese language blog hosted by Sina.com. I’m surprised there’s not a huge amount of discussion about this as yet: I picked it up a Techmeme and there was only one incoming link on the story…remember this blog has knocked […]
America proves again why others regard it as stupid
Todays the 5th Anniversary of 9/11. Now read this: CBS Corp. said on Saturday it would broadcast the documentary “9/11” on the Internet as well as the airwaves after several affiliates said they would delay or forgo the award-winning film because it includes profanity. The documentary was produced by French filmmakers Gedeon and Jules Naudet […]
Blogging the Media Connect Influence Conference Day 2, or I love poker
Day 2. The blogging talk went well yesterday, at least the feedback was immensly positive, which was a relief in itself. Met the Australian Poker Champion and a chap who is the Asia-Pacific Rep for Pokerstars.com, interesting conversation, but as dinner sponors they had a couple of games of poker running for funny money….great stuff, […]
Blogging the Media Connect Influence Conference
Day 1. Some 24 hours after leaving the end of the world and I find myself in The Hunter Valley, NSW for the Media Connect Influence Conference, with a presentation to make on blogging in a bit over 60 minutes that I haven’t written yet. 🙂 The first session was Web 2.0. Unfortunately if this […]
Vale Peter Brock 1945-2006
Peter Brock, veteran racing car driver, many, many times winner of the Bathurst 1000 has died today doing what he loved doing most: racing. According to the SMH, Brock was behind the wheel of a car competing in the Targa West rally and crashed into a tree at Gidgegannup, outside of Perth at lunch time […]
Is today the day I stop using Google?
For some reason Google keeps defaulting today to the Google personalised home page, not Google search, even when I type in www.google.com. It’s frustrating. It’s trying to force me to use a service I don’t want to use, but what’s worse is that is ridiculously slow to load in comparison to the normal Google front […]
Is Digg now saying gaming Digg is ok?
From Kevins Rose’s blog (emphasis added): …today we read a couple blog posts that highlight users digging each others stories. This is something we encourage through our friends features and will continue to expand as digg evolves. It is our goal to create a platform in which you can share and promote news that is […]
The Ford Lesson
Scoble points to Bold Moves, and online video blog produced by Ford aimed at employees, investors and influencers. It’s bloody amazing. It’s candid, it’s frank, and it’s honest. Indeed, having watched the current video on the site (episode #10) I feel like I’ve just woken up and watched the start of a revolution in corporate […]
Did SixApart buy Rojo for the Feedreader or the staff?
SixApart acquires Rojo. Coverage and Niall and Techcrunch. Odd thing though is this line: “Six Apart intends to sell a majority interest in Rojo?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s newsreader services in the coming months.” So why buy something just to flog it off later? Rojo doesn’t seem like a natural fit for SixApart either, after all its a feedreeder […]
Tucows buys dead cow Kiko
Tucows has announced that they were the buyer of the dead Web 2.0 startup Kiko. Interesting buy, mainly because probably like a whole pile of other people, I’ve always thought of Tucows as a Web 1.0 company. Is this a step into the Web 2.0 field for the once mighty software download player? only time […]
Heading Eastwards
I’m off to the Hunter Valley this weekend for the Media Connect Influence Conference. I’ll be in Sydney briefly on Saturday 9 September then off to the Hunter Valley Sunday through to Tuesday. My thanks to Phil Sim for the invite. I know fellow Western Australian resident Richard Giles is attending, but if anyone else […]
When the man becomes the blog
There’s a big blog conference in India this weekend according to ITWire, and the headline speaker: “Robert Scobleizer”. I kid you not. And in case they realise their error, here’s the screenshot: Good luck to them none the less. Tags: Robert Scoble, India
Why you shouldn’t use Captchas on your blog
My latest weekly column at The Blogging Times. And yes, I’m quite serious, and no, it’s not PC BS, god, anyone who knows me knows how anti-PC I am (indeed, I think I regularly make my business partners in b5media blush), but just because I’m anti-PC doesn’t mean that I think that people choosing to […]
A note to Devany Kindle
Dear Ms Kindle [email protected] Thank you for the numerous unkind words you have sent me in relation to my posts on the death of Steve Irwin. As an American I’m sure you’re a complete expert on how some Australians found Steve Irwin embarrassing at times. As I have previously written, the man was a walking […]
Another step closer to the grave
XXXI.
The Fark take on Steve Irwin’s death
Ok, it’s probably not cool to laugh about the dead, but this is a little funny (from Fark): Tags: Steve Irwin
Should Steve Irwin get a State Funeral?
Here’s an interesting question: should Steve Irwin get a State Funeral. Despite some of his more annoying characteristics, there’s little doubt that as a man Irwin did far, far more than many others in the past in promoting Australia abroad, and after all, we’ve given them to people far less worthy than of one than […]
Yikes, you know Steve Irwin dying is big news when…
It’s the lead story on CNN: but then again, how sh*t is Google News, lead story links to the Steve Irwin dead story at American political blog Wizbang: Fox News: BBC…ok, not main story, but top 3: Tags: Steve Irwin
Why the ABC should be allowed to show ads online
Steve Irwin dies, and Aunty can’t handle the bandwidth, another reason why the Government should allow ads at abc.net.au: