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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.
Whois.sc renamed Domaintools.com
My favourite domain tool online: whois.sc, have been renamed to domaintools.com with a redirect. Good on em…I think, but I already miss the old fashioned whois.sc service.
iTod…not quite there
The Times reports on the iTod, a iPod like device for toddlers. For me, it’s not quite there. First and foremost, I can’t imagine my 3 year old wearing earphones. He’ll rip them out in a second. After that, what’s the appeal? My son is obsessed with my main computer. He sneaks into my office […]
BloggerCon Australia: I’m excited!
Just read this at Scripting News. Red Barren is in charge of organising a BloggerCon in Australia. For those who were readers of The Blog Herald I’ve been trying to do this for years. I’ve got about 50 ppl in the email list who have shown interest in coming. If you haven’t previously registered interest […]
Help! Does anyone know about the TV station NOW?
Part of the package I get in the new house, which is on a new estate, is TV through underground cable. We get the local channels, Perth TV (well depending on the weather) and a couple of free to air satellite channels thrown in for good measure. They are rebroadcasting ABC2 and Bloomberg, and a […]
Podcasting, MP3 Players Stealing Radio’s Audience
Gotta love these stats. And it’s true. Aside from playing Club977 on the dedicated PVR box when I want to listen to some 80’s music, I’m listening to podcasts….well I was before the iPod got packed in a box…anyone know what box it’s in 🙂 Podcasting News: 27% of people 12-24 attribute their reduced use […]
I’m back
Greetings and salutations….or something like that. I’m back online after a nearly 2 week hiatus having laid floorboards, decking, and moved into the new castle. Of course still lots of things to go. I’m unpacked only as much as my new, gigantic office currently has in it a desk and a computer….and nothing else. Telstra […]
The Scoble Bastard Card
OMG!!!! I can’t stop laughing! and the best:
Catfight….catfight….J-Cal v Denton!
I couldn’t help but call it this way, this quote from Jason Calacanis (unfortunately I think I signed away all the rights to cute pictures of cats doing kungfu when I sold The Blog Herald). Denton calls out SixApart. I’m so glad I trusted Brian when he insisted that we create Blogsmith as the foundation […]
Yep, I’m looking at doing a meme site
blogging.wurk.net does some detective work and tell’s me that I should stop using my registered business name to register for other services. I won’t say what it is, but it involves Web 2.0, it’s close to home, and I’ve written about the idea at The Blog Herald before.
Google testing mega ads and pixel ads
This has got to have a big WTF on it. According to Adotas, Google is testing 2560 x 1920 ads and 1×1 pixel ads. Pretty much, great big mother you know what ads, and itsy bitsy, teeny weeny pixel ads ala the Million Dollar Homepage. If it’s true, now I’ve seen everything 🙂
Eponym: another new blogging service
Steve Rubel points to eponym, another new blogging service, although Steve hypes this one as a SixApart competitor. It looks nice, and the blogs look a bit like MT blogs, which is interesting. There are what…100’s of these services out there now. It’s not a market I’d be looking to enter.
Technorati isn’t tracking Myspace, if they are they totally suck
Aaron writes at Technosailor that he believes that Technorati is now tracking MySpace. I really don’t think they are, because if they are they really suck it at. Consider the numbers. 61 million odd users. Technorati tracks less blogs than the total number of blogs in China. My understanding is that MySpace blogs can’t be […]
Australian Tourism
A couple of different takes:
Bugger….Mena Trott vs Scientology
Mena’s far, far braver than I am. And I’ll heap praise on this one…I hope SA’s lawyers are ready, but good on you Mena for having bit of fun…it’s just a bit…what did they say in Yes Minister…courageous…to do such a thing: Mena: Hey, did you see the pictures of Tom Cruise at Yahoo? Ben: […]
Cory Doctorow in Melbourne
Cameron Reilly (no relation) points to Cory Doctorow in Melbourne. I wish soooo much I could hop on a plane, if she who must be obeyed would only let me, particularly given it’s free!
Bubble, what bubble, I mean, $2b for a website….WTF?
Facebook is chasing $2b (USD) for their site, having knocked back $750 million. Now it’s in the top 100 at Alexa, which equals premium site, but $2b for an online property. It’s not even 1999 again….it’s a whole lot more at this. price.
When you are away, stuff happens
For those who aren’t aware, I’m laying decking and floorboards this week, and most likely into next week at this stage, so I’m pretty much going to be MIA. Just interesting though. I haven’t read my feeds in 2 days, and there is 45 new items in tech.memeorandum.com. The stuff I’m missing 🙂
2web podcast number 4
If you are interested in Web 2.0, podcasting, and start ups, check out the latest 2web podcast. I’m quite…well….strong in it. 🙂 Update: I’ve just listened to it and I’d think it’s our best podcast to date 🙂 If you’ve got an iPod or computer for that matter, have a listen!
Google rules the waves
Just reading at Threadwatch that Google has now got basically 75% of the UK search market. The figure here in Australia is close for memory. When all the so-called experts in America talk about Google they always talk about it from an American perspective, despite the fact that Google is a lot stronger (in terms […]
Is Robert Scoble being Snarky?
Robert…Robert my friend! WTF is going on. I read this post and it smells and looks like Snark. The same sort of snark you were only rallying against the other week. Now Robert, if I can scrape up enough money to go on the blog cruise in October I intend on buying you a drink…or […]