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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.
If Chris Pirillo was female, wouldn’t this be porn
Chris Pirillo has launched Rent My Chest 2.0 (via Blogebrity), but I ask this serious question: if Chris was female wouldn’t this be porn, after all, Chris has a reasonable set of man boobs here, indeed, I think his…features..are bigger than Keira Knightley’s (sorry Chris, but I’ve got to say, shame about the fez…), although […]
comScore, Techcrunch ignore Skype as an IM
Interesting post over at Techcrunch today on the latest IM usage figures…but both the figures from comScore, and Techcrunch themselves totally ignore one IM client: and that’s Skype. I use Skype as my IM client, and so do most people I know. Why, well first and foremost everyone actually uses their real names: makes it […]
Is Google an AdWords Hypocrite?
Threadwatch points to this story at eWeek suggesting that Google is an Adwords Hypocrite with its new deal with GoDaddy for parked domain “landing pages”…and suffice to say I agree with the conclusion, on one hand Google is cracking down on poor quality landing pages (which I don’t think alone is a particularly bad thing) […]
Why are Western feminists mute on the plight of their Islamic sisters.
Paul Sheehan rocks the boat again…and he’s spot on.
Where to live in Sydney?
I won’t go into the personal side of this, but I’m tossing up moving back to Sydney in the next couple of months. It’s the town I grew up in, but a town I left at the age of 21. For those of you outside of Australia, Sydney is as close as we get in […]
Blogs you should consider reading (particularly if you’re in to blogs and Web 2.0)
I’ve got an admission to make, in the last couple of months I’ve been adding to my Bloglines subs, even though I swore I would actually decrease the number…and whilst on one hand I have unsubscribed from a few sites….the number I subscribed to has actually been creping up again. Sure, I’ve only gotten out […]
The Chaser takes revenge for all of us
WIN launches Second Life Insider
Very, very cool, for a SL fan like me: Second Life Insider. Now if only I could find time to get onto SL more than once or twice a week!!!
Andy Merrett on Problogger
Andy has gone pro, and has some great, and very true reflections on what it’s like to blog for a living, I won’t repeat them all, you can read the list here, but my favourite: Time vanishes. It just goes. You?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢re up early and working, and before you know it, it?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s early evening. My story […]
Blogebrity hits the spot
Saw this story at Techcrunch the other day and it did register as being odd, but the Blogebrity team sum it up well…and BTW, it’s great to see Blogebrity back and firing regularly as well…now if only they’d expand their coverage a little bit wider… TechCrunch Bubblewatch: STD Edition Time to play everyone’s favorite Web […]
Is Astroturfing wrong in an apathetic democracy?
I’ve been reading with some interest the rise of a new anti-astroturfing campaign speerheaded by Australia’s own Trevor Cook (more here and here), but as much as I share Trevor’s, and others concerns that the act of astroturfing (if you don’t know what astroturfing is, read here) is immoral, and most likely unethical, I’m still […]
Is India the new China?
Indian ISP’s are blocking Blogger and TypePad…so much for a free and open democracy.
Arrrrrrrrr, its another odious R Web 2.0 name, this time from Odeo
Twttr, according to TechCrunch, is a Web 2.0 app from Odeo that allows you to mass spam people via mobile phone txt, and then let everyone read what you sendspam people’s mobiles with online, sort of like group sex in front of a web cam for txt, but although I don’t suggest for one minute […]
Dell HQ is actually dumber than it’s Indian Call Centres
No racism intended in the heading for this post….but you’ll know what I mean if you’ve ever tried calling Dell..but on a brighter note, according to VNUnet, Dell’s new one2one blog shares its name…with a porn site. Sh*t, haven’t these morons ever heard of a Whois lookup? Tags: Dell
Those Bastards…get it totally right!
No direct link to the post, as it doesn’t seem to be working, but Those Bastards get it totally right….incumbents always play down the financial returns in a marketplace 🙂
MT isn’t going to die, you’re just not going to see the MT brand as much
Interesting discussion over at The Blog Herald on the demise of MT compared to WordPress, and although the entire world knows I’m a massive WordPress fan these days, I’ve got to say that both Scrivs and Matt are wrong on this, wrong in that MT isn’t going to go away, indeed I’d argue that MT […]
A solution to the oil crisis?
Article here, and video following, if its legit…wow!
Whats for lunch
Shame, shame,shame.
Yahoo, Microsoft tie message knot
Good news on the IM front…now if only they could get together with eBay and link in to Skype as well, from the BBC: Users of the Yahoo and Microsoft instant messaging programs can now contact each other directly. The two firms have released software that ties the two networks into a huge community of […]
Big Brother uplate…in WA
Because BB uplate is…well…late, I haven’t watched it before, but if you wan’t to play the games…or watch it live, anywhere in the world, you can, at quiztv.com.au. It’s on roughly 11:20pm AEST to 1:20am AEST (for me, two hours behind). The unfortunate thing is that it’s hosted by Mike Goldman (??? not sure if […]