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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.
Eric Holmlund responds
There’s been some interesting debate and discussion in the comments here at duncanriley.com in relation to my trips inside the Joel Comm Made for Adsense program. I’m always suspicious when people go on the attack and don’t actually try to defend their products, which has been the case now for several days..however Eric Holmlund has […]
Sharing the link love, or how nofollow has failed
I’ve been reading with interest over the last couple of months bloggers, particularly in the SEO community, arguing that the link=nofollow attribute, the attribute launched with much fan fare a few years back as a solution to comment spam has been a complete waste of time. The main argument is that comment spam hasn’t decreased […]
Profile Peddling the new SEO
Darren has an interesting article over at Problogger today on “Profile Peddling” which is setting up sites on services such as MySpace to drive traffic to your site. Now I’ve got accounts on most of these services, but to be honest I’d never really seen them as a way to drive traffic to sites (I […]
Bloglogic relaunches as a blog news site
I noticed an incoming link from Paul Short’s old blog network Bloglogic tonight, so I thought I’d check it out given I’d recently read the news that he’d given up Bloglogic to trade under the name of Gomaud Media…and I’ve got to say I was shocked! Bloglogic lives! as a blog news style site (I’m […]
US Nuclear security is a circus: even clowns can break in!
Now I think some of the things the US Government are doing at the moment to their citizens, in terms of spying in particular, are abhorrent, but it seems pretty clear that whilst they are busy spying on innocent civilians they are leaving their nuclear warheads unguarded…why you may well ask? Well The Register reports […]
CSS Reboot for Sale at SitePoint, SitePoint redesign
CSS Reboot, an excellent resource of CSS beautifulness is up for sale at Sitepoint. I can’t remember whether this was once a 9rules or Paul Scrivens site…certainly there is mention of Mike Rundle on the main page… Also if you haven’t checked it out, the sales forums at Sitepoint have had a big makeover with […]
News Corp on Media
Want to try and understand Web 2.0 and the future of media, then read this. One of the best pieces you’ll read this year on where media is going.
Telecom New Zealand to split wholesale and retail operations, so why can’t the Australian Government do the same thing with Telstra?
The Register reports that Telecom New Zealand has announced plans to create an independent wholesale operation to promote competition in the industry. These quotes are interesting: If successful, rival operators should be able to get equal access to Telecom’s wholesale network, giving them greater scope to compete and invest in broadband services. “The country expects […]
Finally, an Alexa tool for Firefox
Spotted this one at the Search Engine Journal, Search Status, a Firefox plugin that integrates Alexa rankings (and naturally phones home to Alexa as well to track your page viewing habits) into Firefox, where as Amazon/ Alexa has never gotten around to providing something similar themselves. It also displays Google PageRank, all in the bottom […]
Rocket Post, yet another blog posting tool
Darren’s got a great big list of professional blogging links over at Problogger today and instead of doing the work I should have been doing I spent some time checking out a few of the links, and discovered yet another blog posting tool, RocketPost for Anconia. It certainly looked interesting enough from their page to […]
Italy 1 Australia 0, Australia robbed.
At 12:52 am WST, Australia loses to Italy in the last second by a dodgy penalty in the goal box awarded to Italy. Simply, we were robbed. I wonder how much Italy paid the referee. Tags: World Cup Update: Australia agrees, we were robbed.
Geneticist believes people will live to 1,000
How does that song on the radio go? …Forever Young? From the BBC: Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey believes it will soon extend dramatically to 1,000.
A good hard stalk needs a big cold beer, and the best cold beer is Vic….from Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban
Only in Australia! (via a Socialiteslife) After staking out Kidman’s harbourside Sydney house for most of the day, some 20 photographers heard her garage door start to rise and quickly armed themselves with motor-drive cameras. But instead of a shot of the bride and groom before the wedding day, the paparazzi were met by two […]
I can’t quite gather what Gather is?
Read this on Ben Barrens blog pointing to a new blog: Doomed Startup who is covering Gather.com. Can’t say I could recall the company so I checked out the site, all I can say is WTF? This is suppose to be something like Newsvive, but if you visit Newsvine it’s pretty easy to work out […]
So long Yaro Starak, and thanks for all the spam!
I’ve been following with interest an up and coming Australian blogger for some time, one Yaro Starak, who writes an interesting blog, Entrepreneur’s Journey. To date, I’ve found Yaro’s content a worth while read… then last week he decided to flog Made for Adsense templates from Joel Comm, a guy who I’ve written about in […]
Gada be another crappy name
Techcrunch reports on Chris Pirillo’s Gada.be changing its name to TagJag. Certainly I nice new look for the site, but what is it with Chris Pirillo and crappy names? Tagjag? Why not Tagfaghag, or Taggnome? 🙂 Sure, Lockergnome isn’t a pretty name but it’s easy to remember, and Tagjag meet’s the old marketing rules on […]
Why the US Government is stuffed!
Check this video in full, then tell me, what’s wrong with this picture, aside from the obvious reactions 🙂
I love Camilla…sorry
Got to admit, I love Big Brother’s Camilla. I felt so bad when I read this, she’s a great girl with a great personality….maybe I should jet to the Gold Coast if (and when) she’s evicted and offer her a b5media gig! I’d love to have that voice here!. Tags: Camilla, Big Brother
Jason Calacanis takes a digg (or is that Netscape) at Nick Denton
Cat fight, cat fight, this from Jason Calacanis’ blog: That’s Gawker’s standard blogging process–print a lie, admit you screwed up, but never change the error… sort of Jayson Blair style I love these wars, they are sooooo much fun 🙂 Tags: Nick Denton, Jason Calacains, Gawker Media, Weblogs Inc
Wireless piggybacking….I wish
A bloke in the States is in strife for using a cafe’s free wireless connection without buying stuff from the shop….but all I can say from country Western Australia is I wish I could get any wireless here, anywhere, which of course with the exception of the local McDonalds outlet (which is pay of course, […]