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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.
Vox looking good
I was fortunate enough to receive an invite overnight from Anil Dash to SixApart’s new blogging/ social networking tool Vox (previously known as Comet). I’ve just had a quick play with it. Initial thoughts: 1. Vox has the potential to be a big hit. It works quickly, presents well, and has some nice features. 2. […]
Eat, Drink, Smoke, Sleep around…and live to be old
As the old saying goes: Eat, Drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may die, or in this guys case, live to 110, from the BBC: Britain’s oldest surviving war veteran has celebrated his 110th birthday at the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne….In the past Mr Allingham has put the key to his old age down […]
Download this Song
Caught this song on the radio yesterday, it’s apparently No. 6 on some commercial radio chart. Catchy, and interesting lyrics, and apparently MC Lars is touring Australia at the moment, with a visit to Bunbury as well! Download This Song It’s 2006, the consumer’s still pissed Won’t take it anymore so I’m writing a list […]
PubSub in deep….you know what
Mike Arrington at Techcrunch reports on rumours that PubSub is imploding, which is interesting given they’ve just announced a deal with Burrellesluce Media Monitoring Services. Honestly, I don’t remember the last time I tried using PubSub, I gave up on these guys a long time ago, particularly when Technorati started to get their act together […]
How to kill your blog? Don’t kill it at all
Darren has a post over at Problogger on how to kill your blog. Personally I don’t believe in killing blogs these days at all. Two reasons: 1. Although you might not be posting to it anymore you could still be getting traffic (say from Google) and this traffic can still equal revenue. 2. You can […]
Google to compete with Flickr?
Steve Rubel reports on references at Google’s Picasa to “Web Albums”, a potential competitor to Flickr perhaps? I love Picasa, it’s one of those apps I recommend to anyone and everyone who has a digital camera. I long since abondoned my Kodak Picture software for Picasa…it’s a great program, sure it doesn’t have all the […]
Enough already with the Microsoft Killer Talk
Jeremy and I don’t often see eye to eye on certain tech things relating to Microsoft, I’ve always been an Open Source fanwhore where as Jeremy spent time working for (or was that with) Microsoft, and tends to be rather pro-Microsoft (I’m not anti-Microsoft (I use XP for example), I just prefer to have choice […]
Considering 911
Not being American I don’t know enough about 911, but this film certainly asks some interesting questions.
Cory Doctorow visits a radio shack
Fun reading.
Why Microsoft should sue Adobe
This is a really, really good question, from iTWire: Microsoft has born the brunt of criticism for its massive domination of the computer desktop since the release of Windows 95. For once, however, it is not Microsoft that has some explaining to do. Microsoft’s decision not to include the ability to save files to Adobe’s […]
Seth Godin: listen to me, but I don’t want to listen to you
Seth Godin posts that he doesn’t have comments on his blog because it’s all too much work. So much for being a new media evangelist when he won’t allow his own readers to participate in the conversation. And as some of the trackbacks would indicate, people aren’t particularly pleased with Seth on this one either, […]
I guess I won’t be buying Fold.com
Read on TechChrunch earlier today that Fold.com had….well…folded, and noticed that domain was up for sale at Sedo.com, so I put an offer in, apparently the first offer they had received. I guess given the response that I won’t be buying Fold.com anytime shortly 🙂 Tags: Fold.com
Robert Mills, Paris Hilton, and the NY Post
Seems there is no longer an Australian Idol competition, just an Australian “American Idol” contestant. This story made news here last week, but I think Millsy never thought he’d be getting this much attention, just for fleeing Australia because he’s become more known for shagging Paris Hilton then his unremarkable singing career. Tags: Robert Mills, […]
Adbrite is sick
Reports coming in that Adbrite is sick, that sites serving Adbrite ads are taking for ever to load and even then aren’t showing ads. I’ve just stripped the Adbrite code here from duncanriley.com and the site is now loading nice and quickly, however being the Foundation Day public holiday here (and with the family at […]
eBay to provide blogs?
Makes sense really, massive user base, many non-blogging users. Steve Rubel reports that eBay is to launch user blogs powered by SixApart’s TypePad. I’m not aware of any great success from other ecommerce firms in providing blogs to users, but if anyone is going to do it, it will be eBay. Tags: eBay, blogs
I think Jenny Craig might want to drop Kirstie Alley
Is this was Jenny Craig can do for you? (via Perez Hilton)
YouTube Hacked!
Just went to view a video at YouTube, and got this screen: There also appears to be music playing at the site as well.Not sure of the extent of it, whether accounts have been compromised or not, but certainly someone must be asleep at YouTube HQ at the moment. Tags: YouTube, YouTube hacked Update: the […]
OMG! Another South West Blogger
Reading this post at Problogger, and click on the link to this blog, and I find Stuart Robinson, from Busselton, WA, about 30 minutes down the road. That makes 3 South West (WA) bloggers I know of! Maybe on day we can get to 10!
Blogdesk Button
For those people who read my earlier post about Blogdesk and love it as much as I do (it’s the first time I’ve ever used a 3rd party blogging tool for longer than a day, and it’s been 6-8 weeks now!) I’ve done up a button you can put up at your site to help […]
Introducing Nanomedia
Ive never been a huge fan of buzzwords, but Cameron Reilly has introduced a new buzz word that I think has very, very long legs (potential): Nanomedia: What is “nanomedia”? It is media that is produced for a niche audience, often on a low cost basis, either for the love of it or for commercial […]