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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.
AdSense changes default Ads to Borderless Ads
Darren reports at Problogger that Google’s AdSense has changed default Ads to Borderless Ads. Wise thinking from the Google team. Tags: adsense
The Nanny for Congress
Only in America 🙂 From City Rag: Fran Drescher did not mince any words in talking about her interest in a pursuing a career in politics on the Howard Stern show this morning. Straight from Fran’s mouth, she’d like to become a Senator or Congresswoman for the state of New York. Sad really. I suppose […]
Technorati AP deal win-win for bloggers
Great news for all bloggers, with a deal announced by AP with Technorati that will see links to blogs citing AP stories provided to all newspapers that subscribe to AP. From an AP story at Macon.com: Technorati will search blogs for postings that include links to AP stories. Links to those postings will be available […]
Free Wireless for Americans
What a brilliant idea, from ISP Planet: M2Z’s goal is ?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?Ǭ¶ provide free high speed connections to 95 percent of U.S. consumers without any recurring fees. This is a grand undertaking.” -M2Z FCC request Kleiner Perkins, history’s most successful venture capital firm, is backing John Muleta and Milo Medin’s offer to unwire the entire United […]
SixApart getting into a bit of strife over breast feeding
Valleywag reports SixAparts Live Journal team is in battle with breat feeding advocates over images on LJ blogs showing breast feeding. I’m male, so I’m not even going to go near the whole breat feeding in public issue, but I’d share this advice: banning pictures of a totally legal act undertaken by mothers and their […]
Text Link Ads Calculator
Patrick and Andy over at Text Link Ads have announced the launch of the Text Link Ads Calculator, which can be viewed here. Very handy tool if you’ve ever wondered what sort of money you can get from TLA. Certainly I’ve been having a lot of success with them lately, both personally and with b5media, […]
bebo raises $15m
Social Networking remains very, very hot. Just a day after the E-Commerce Times ran this story about kiddies starting to turn away from MySpace because it’s become a bit to mainstream, and that they are moving to sites such as bebo, Paid Content reports that bebo has just raised $15 million in VC from Benchmark […]
Farks take on New Zealand
Apologies to my Kiwi Friends, but I just had to laugh after viewing these pics at Fark.
G’Day Prime Minister
Only in Australia🙂 A MAN who ran his boat on to rocks just metres from the Sydney residences of the prime minister and governor-general has been charged with drink driving. Sydney Water Police said they found a motor cruiser aground on rocks at Kirribilli Point with a man, woman and three children on board about […]
Crazy AdSense Experiment: Unethical But Legal $10,000/Month
Xedant has the details on how people are gaming Adsense using Adwords and made for Adsense sites. We’ve all seen them before, but these guys spell it out far more clearly for the beginner through to the most experienced online Adsense star.
Dave Winer gets it right on Feedburner
Wise words from the old man of blogging: How to compete with FeedBurner….First, I’d either do a deal with a registrar, become a registrar, or merge or partner with one. It’s absolutely essential that the user own the domain that their feed is hosted at, so that, in case of emergency, they can switch to […]
Feedpass debate rages
Lots of debate emerging over the new feed service “feedpass“, a new service that allows your feed to have essentially it’s own multi-faceted feed subscription page, mainly because they allow you to create pages for blogs you don’t own, and earn revenue off it. I won’t get into the whole copyright/ theft issue some are […]
Give me green, lots of green…..
Looks like Mike Arrington got into a whole pile of trouble whilst I was away after shafting his web designer. Lot of coverage here, here, here, here and here. Personally I don’t particularly dislike the design, the layout itself isn’t too bad, although I’m not a huge fan of some of the whitespace, fonts and […]
I’m Back!
My brush with D List Fame: Elise from Big Brother: Lots of Extra probably totally uninteresting photos coming to my Flickr account shortly….once I deal with the 1281….1282….whoops they are still downloading….emails 🙂 Tags: Big Brother
The Blogging Bomber?
Sitting in a Internet Cafe on the Gold Coast and already I’ve got my first weird travel story. Last night at Perth Airport I was pulled aside and….scanned for explosives! It was 11:30pm so I was in a bit of a daze anyway. I walked through security, no problems, then I get pulled aside by […]
Ask Duncan: Why Do You Love Big Brother?
OK, so the whole ask Duncan thing didn’t work so we’ll (I’m still open for q’s) but Darren ask’s as good question: “Why do you love Big Brother so much?” Well Darren, the short answer: I live in the Country. The long Answer: I live in the Country. Seriously though, we don’t get Channel 10 […]
Now I know American law makers are Crazy: bill to ban Blogs, Social Networking sites for under 18’s
They say only in America. And only in America could law makers, elected representatives, put forward legislation that would punish and ban those under 18 from joining Social Networking sites and blogging, whilst totally ignoring the very people they are concerned about: online predators. I suppose in a society that allows every man and his […]
Will Reciprocal links get you banned from Google
This from a Media Post Email: As Shari Thurow points out, AdSense creates A LOT of so-called search engine spam, which refers to the myriad link farms and other bogus sites appearing in natural listings that make their money off a combination of AdSense and high natural search placement. Link farming is the process of […]
Bugs Bunny in “Adware Rampage”
Reports Online Media Daily: CONTROVERSIAL ADWARE COMPANY 180SOLUTIONS AT the end of last month quietly began offering streams of two shows distributed by Warner Bros. Online. The shows–the soap opera “Deception” and the animated show “Medical Island”–were created specifically for the Web. Both programs are available online exclusively on 180solutions’ consumer site, Zango.com. Visitors to […]
ADSDAQ for blogging?
The 360 reports on a proposal to form essentially a commodities style market for advertising in the United States: A consortium of some of the biggest advertisers in the United States has plans to move the ad industry out the era of the cattle exchange and into the internet age. They’re looking for someone to […]