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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.
Solis takes a good picture
Both show me tired, a little puffy, sadly (in retrospect) unshaven, bad hair (I’d confused the conditioner which said something like Apres Shampoo in french on it as being shampoo) but jeez Brian Solis takes a good pic. Original source links via the pics themselves
State of media delusion
I was in a cab yesterday and the driver had the radio tuned into what I believe was Ernie Sigley’s afternoon show, and they were talking job cuts at Fairfax. The discussion was not about how these job cuts are directly related to the downturn in print advertising caused by online alternatives, no, according to […]
For love or money
I’ve already been accused of drinking the kool aid this week at Gnomedex, and there might just be an ounce of truth in that, but I really don’t care. In the last year and a half I’ve attended what many would consider to be among the biggest tech events on the planet (having done both […]
Interview with ABC Illawarra re: the switch from television
I did my first radio interview yesterday in probably 9 months. Moving from country WA to Melbourne has meant that I’ve become a small fish in a big pond as opposed to a small fish in a small pond. The audio isn’t great, probably my VOIP connection, but I was called by ABC Melbourne today […]
Google Street View blurs my letterbox
Google Australia has launched Google Street View locally (via Simon Goudie). Privacy issues perhaps, but letter boxes have all been blurred out. Here’s our house in Google Street View: Here’s a close up of the letter box Interestingly, they’ve really gone all out in the coverage of Street View. My old house complete with sales […]
Techmeme fails the tech community again
I don’t know why I still care. I guess that some small part of me still believes that perhaps Gabe is interested in impartial news and tracking the big stories as opposed to just TechCrunch. However tonight (my time) proves once again how Techmeme is failing the tech community. As I write this, at 9pm […]
And still the world remains silent on Zimbabwe
The following is reprinted from today’s subscriber edition of Crikey. They didn’t attribute a source, and I haven’t asked for permission to reprint it, so apologies on any copyright issues up front. I’ll pull it if asked, but I’m sure Crikey wouldn’t ask such a thing, and this is a story that needs to be […]
Email Fail + Apologies
A short note of apology to anyone who sent me an email in the last 24 hours and had a bounced response. I’m still here, unfortunately my MediaTemple set up suffered some email fail. I still don’t know what it is, and after spending hours doing everything from trace routes, deleting and recreating the inbox, […]
Cool, I’m in Hindi
Apparently the quote from this aritcle says “Compared to Twitter Plurk seems to appeal more to non-tech inclined people.” The English version is still being worked on, but I gave a fairly comprehensive interview on Twitter and Plurk. Also in the article (and some of these names are familiar to me, top names from the […]
Mysterious Apple Pirate Posters
I went down the street today (Burke Road, Camberwell, VIC) for some lunch with the family and some time in Borders, and I kept seeing the above poster. Someone had come along and plastered it at the various places posters are frequently posted (construction site boarding mostly). But that’s it: An Apple and Pirates cross […]
iPhone 3G Unboxing
The full video up on The Inquisitr here (Vimeo, so available in HD). The YouTube version as follows. I haven’t stopped playing with it since I purchased. Never seen people lining up in suburbia before like I did for the iPhone today, Optus Camberwell they were 100-200m up the street. The little phone store on […]
On Race
There’s been a debate/ discussion raging this week around race online. It started with Loren Feldman’s 12 month old “Tech Nigga” video then went in various directions, including an appalling example of racism targeted at SheGeek’s Corvida during a YLive show. I’ve not long finished this weeks things you can’t say on the Internet podcast, […]
The TechCrunch Digg Club
Interesting, I’m no longer loved, but they keep on asking me to vote for them on Digg. Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!
Seesmic and video
I couple of months back I started duncanriley.tv, my experiment in video. I got some great advice from folks like Chris Pirillo, then ignored most of it and started doing stuff. It was great fun, and some of the videos received thousands of views on Youtube. Most didn’t, but using Tubemogul most hit low to […]
Travel Plans: Seattle, LA in August
I finally have some dates booked for August. I’ll be in Seattle for my first ever Gnomedex from the afternoon of August 18 through to August 25. I’ll be in Los Angeles from the afternoon of August 25 until late night August 27. Why the stopoever? Did you know Qantas allows one free stopover if […]
Identi.ca proves me wrong, and I’m happy about it
The big buzz today is around Indenti.ca, a new open source, and open platform microblogging service. That the code is open source is great in itself, but the biggest breakthrough is support for the new OpenMicroBlogging standard, which means that in theory, anyone could host the script and each service would talk to each other, […]
Guest Posting on Mashable
Just a quick shout out to Pete Cashmore with thanks for giving me the opportunity to guest post on occasion on Mashable. My first post is up today, covering Melbourne based Copper Project from Element Software. If you like, think of this as my community service (I’m not being paid). I’m passionate about Australian startups […]
Old
Not as old, or in many ways sad as the jokes at the Tivoli, but I’m still looking a little old. She who must be obeyed however is aging like a fine wine. Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!
Do Not Use RSM Bird Cameron
A couple of years ago, when we (she who must be obeyed and I) decided that running a business through our personal taxes wasn’t a particularly effective way of dealing with tax and GST, we signed up with the local RSM Bird Cameron, or to be precise RSM Bird Cameron Bunbury (which is also the […]
When I run out of quota, what then?
Massive panic attack today, my peak usage hit 30gb for the month to June 28. Anyone reading this inside the United States will have no idea what I’m talking about but it works this way: you buy broadband on a plan in Australia, even though they claim it’s unlimited (well some companies do,they lie…by unlimited […]