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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.
The Seth Godin bubble is about to burst
Every one raves about Seth Godin. Personally, I’ve always thought the hype was way out of control, and as much as a lot of what he says makes sense, I’ve always thought most of it was common sense as opposed to anything ground breaking, and perhaps very well articulated, but nothing really more than this. […]
The open ad marketplace?
Jeff Jarvis calls for Open Source advertising and metric solutions to help bring Advertisers and Bloggers together. A rather socialist suggestion from a right wing blogger I’d think. But I can’t help that think that maybe Jeff Jarvis doesn’t know enough about the advertising industry, because there is no way in hell that you are […]
Lawsuit Brings Down Agency
The irony. An ad agency tries to sue a blogger who criticised on of it’s campaigns. 1 month later the ad agency folds. From Media Post: WARNER KREMER PAINO ADVERTISING, THE ad agency that last month filed a puzzling lawsuit against a blogger for having criticized the agency’s online ad efforts, has folded. After widespread […]
Webby Awards don’t really reflect the web anymore
The winners of the 2006 Webby Awards have been announced, and it appears as though the blogosphere doesn’t exist….but of course it does, but bloggers aren’t really up for the $500 USD entry fee, and hence we get the usual corporate sites winning awards, and Arianna Huffington’s Huffington Post (not really representative of the blogosphere […]
Crikey! Blogs are dying!
Trevor Cook refers to the latest subscriber email from Australian Sh*t sheet Crikey that concludes that blogs and blogging are dying: What most realise is that blogging is the illusion of connection, publishing into a void and thus doubly isolating. Those blogs that survive will and are evolv(ing) into multi-person sites, some with collective and […]
Blog Plagiarism makes the MSM
Interesting story at Boston.com on Blog Plagiarism. Honestly I didn’t know it was a big problem, after all the real problem is just plain and simple content theft. Apparently though, some of these low lifes are getting crafty and changing names in posts. Personally I don’t see why they’d bother. Tags: Blog Plagiarism
A F*cking Australian MySpace
So where the bloody hell would you start the first country based version of MySpace, well according to Lee’s Blog: MySpace Australia. According to News Corp: The Australian divisions of multinational companies such as Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson and Toyota are expected to be approached as they have advertised on the […]
Making money from your blog: TLA
I’ve held back on blogging topics here at duncanriley.com, because at the end of the day I don’t want to compete with my former site, The Blog Herald, or b5media’s Problogger, but I thought I might share a little money making advertiser I’m having great success with, both with my personal sites, and with b5media […]
Bobby is as rough as guts
As part of the impending Australia TV tour, while I’m in Sydney I feel obliged to go an jump around Martin Place with a large sign for Sunrise, as many American would do for the NBC Today Show. But talking of Mel and Kochie, I also looked into attended Where are they Now, only because […]
The Australian TV tour
Yep, I’m finally got my holiday booked. I couldn’t get a passport in time (then get the Visa’s and what not) so it’s totally domestic travel for me. As much as I plan to spend some time laying on a beach, I’ve decided to go a bit quirky as well. It’s been a while since […]
Still thing Technorati tracks the entire blogosphere?
China to have 60 million bloggers by end of 2006 (reuters) China is the world’s second-largest Internet market after the United States with more than 110 million users. A survey by Chinese search engine Baidu.com put the current number of blog, or Web log, sites at 36.82 million which are kept by 16 million people, […]
Expedia caught spamming Google
SEO Black Hat blog reports that Expedia is spamming Google’s search results for terms including Viagra. I’m not sure exactly what the corporate structure is at Expedia these days, but the use to be owned by IAC Corp, the very same people that own Ask.com (previously Ask Jeeves) as well as other sites such as […]
NBC report on Blogs, but you’ve got to have IE to watch it
The CBS Public Eye blog is reporting on a NBC news story on blogging….but if you want to watch it online, don’t bother unless you’ve got IE! The story itself is pretty general….Im just annoyed that if you want to view NBC view online you have to use IE.
Canvas, just what the WP doctor ordered
Notice this great software via Aaron’s new blog, Canvas. It basically allows you to set up your WordPress blog from within WordPress, everything from layout to colours, without needing to touch any code. But it’s not a basic editor, we are talking full customisation here. Really great, easy to use stuff. I haven’t given it […]
More on Blogdesk from Johannes Oppermann
I’ve been using Blogdesk for a couple of days now, and for once in my life I can actually feel my blogging productivity increase, mainly because I can quickly copy, cut and edit an image into any blog post, to any of my blogs, along with what I’ve got to say on the story. I […]
Cowboy with a blog on the marketq
I’m sort of disappointed I didn’t see this at JOAB: But I’ll give the auction a plug anyway.
SixApart DOS attack
Lots of stories all over the web about a big Denial of Service attack aimed at Six Apart. CNet quoting Anil Dash: “Any large service tends to have a pretty constant level of attacks, but this was on a scale that I don’t think anybody could have anticipated,” Dash said. “I think it is of […]
A Weblogs Inc/ Gawker tie up?
Jason Calacanis and Nick Denton together in New York 3 May 2006. Now it’s public knowledge these two have had a love/ hate relationship for a long time. So what’s going on here? Is AOL wanting to acquire Gawker Media as well (imagine that, they’d own over 60% of the blog network media space if […]
Sphere, just another blog search engine.
All the blogosphere is buzzing about Sphere, the latest kid on the blog search engine block. Maybe I’ve become sceptical again, but I played with it for a while, its just another blog search engine, and I honestly don’t think it’s quite at the Technorati level yet. Pretty to look at, for sure, but outside […]
Latest 2web podcast with Markus Frind of Plenty of Fish
Despite the haze of the flu drugs I’ve started taking, and having my 3 year old running around the house with the same flu (isn’t it wonderful how your children love to share) I managed to participate in an interesting podcast this morning at 2web crew where Richard Giles and I interviewed Markus Frind, the […]