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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.
Anyone have any advice on Virtual Assistants?
A bit of a bleg: I’ve been looking at hiring a virtual assistant. It’s Sunday as I write this and there are over 200 unread emails in my inbox, and that’s with over 50 rules putting most emails into other folders, of which there is thousands of unread emails.What I’m looking at is someone to […]
NAB Spams Blogs. Australian Blog Owners Need To Change Banks
I simply ask this: could I walk into a branch of the National Australia Bank and openly promote my business to those in attendance? I’d encourage EVERY Australian blogger who has an account to the National to close it. From today’s Crikey (not quite reprinted in full, but as it’s subscription only, reprinted enough so […]
Steve Gilmor Translated: The Master In Seques Returns
Steve Gilmor is a smart guy, but his inability to focus on more than one thing at a time (or more precisely to constantly seque in a post) is worthy of cult status. This post translated as best as I can make it out. Our Home Town I stumbled across Summize. I did a vanity […]
1938Media on CNet
Congrats to Loren on this deal. He’s one of the smartest, most engaging and interesting guys I’ve ever spent time with, and a pure gentleman as well. I just hope it doesn’t result in too many more fluff pieces like these 🙂
The Inquisitr By The Numbers
Today marks 1 month since The Inquisitr launched. I was going to write something over on the site about the 1 month mark but the last time I wrote a post about the site people used OutBrain to rate it poorly, besides, I don’t do self indulgent well anyway…well my personal blog aside 🙂 Having […]
Plurk Widget
Might add this to the sidebar. Let’s see if the wave of new members continues first.
GameOn, ACMI and Copyright Stupidity
We headed into town this morning to see the Australian Centre for the Moving Image’s GameOn Exhibition at Federation Square. The exhibition highlights the history of computer gaming, with displays from various eras and plenty of actual games to play. Figuring that given it’s nothing more than a big collection of arcade games I took […]
JustAddMe: Simple Sidebar List
JustAddMe offers a simple sidebar widget with links to social networks. My only gripe is that the list is a little limited, but please feel free to add me as above. Also FriendFeed here If anyone knows of a deeper alternative leave a comment. I’m lazy so I like the idea 🙂
Microsoft Mix Remixed
It’s interesting that Animoto chose to show Ballmer during the low point in the song 🙂
Twitter!
This post needs to be at the top of Techmeme. That is all.
Playing With Animato
Twitter Fail Macworld Keynote (my pics)
State of the (Australian) Union c/- Crikey
Finally a brilliant opening from Crikey to justify my (again renewed) 2 year subscription Things seem to going along nicely. In Western Australia the government has clawed its way through a crony-strewn corruption inquiry that seemed to implicate half the cabinet. Now, thus rejuvenated, it is facing down an opposition led by a creep who […]
Possible Storm in a Miniature Tea Cup
I’ve had a lot of questions following yesterdays announcement, and I’ve tried to respond to all of them where I can (the direct ones anyway, haven’t worked through the comments yet). Ed Sutherland at Problogging News wanted to interview me so I responded to his questions; there was a slightly odd angle but I never […]
So I Left TechCrunch Today
More here. Some really nice words from Michael. The thing that’s surprised me about this is it didn’t leak in a month. Probably helps that I didn’t tell all but a few people, but it’s cool knowing that in the age of uber-gossip it never leaked. The video below covers more (serious NSFW language warning…I […]
For the Love of God Troy, Resign
I’ve been watching the whole Troy Buswell, chair sniffing scandal from afar, having left WA in February. For those not familiar with the story, WA Liberal leader Troy Buswell, having managed to become party leader last year despite a “bra-snapping” scandal, was exposed as a chair sniffer. The short version is that Troy apparently sniffed […]
Please Bring Back Full Feeds At The Blog Herald
I’ve never once tried to interfere with my old site, The Blog Herald. I sold it and that was the end of the matter. It did well under Matt Craven and the folks who bought it from me, but a year later Splashpress bought it and turned it into a poor mans Problogger with little […]
Arrington in Time Top 100
This is staggering. Congrats to Michael on a position well deserved. I cant remember if a blogger has ever made the list before, maybe Drudge but he’s never counted himself as a blogger. It’s perhaps a watershed moment that a Blogger can be counted in the Top 100 most influential people in the world, next […]
Anzac Day 2008
Anthem for Doomed Youth What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries for them from prayers or bells, Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, – The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; […]
Why I’m Happy To Pay $8/ Mth To Blip.TV
Aside from the amazing variety of distribution paths, they promise priority uploads and encoding. They promised right.
New on duncanriley.tv this week
Nearly a week in and slowly getting the hang of things, might try some higher-rez stuff next week. In case you haven’t dropped by yet, I’ve devised a cure for cancer and bought peace to the world….or not. Hangover Cures Linux Open Source Canvas for WordPress Blockbuster & Circuit City To subscribe, click here, and […]