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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.
Today Tonight Appearance 9 Aug 2011
My hair looks shocking! 🙂 Thx to Creeky as always for having me on.
On the dawn of my next great enterprise
The next site is ready to go. Indeed the template seems 99% there and we’re not launching yet because I never launch a site without some serious content up. It’s going up within the next 2 weeks. But I digress. The new site covers a niche. It’s opposite to The Inquisitr which was always about […]
Nichenet Pty Ltd Press Release: Sale of The Inquisitr
Note from me: this is our official press release today. Timed at 10am EDT US Time 23 May 2011 under embargo. As follows: Nichnet Pty Ltd is proud to today officially announce the sale, and final transfer of The Inquisitr (inquisitr.com) to new owners. As per disclosure by Flippa.com, the final sale price was USD$330,000. […]
Live Blogging The Royal Wedding
Just a quick note to Inquisitr fans and royal junkies: I’ll be live blogging the Royal Wedding tonight on The Inquisitr. If you’re not near a TV, you can watch the royal wedding live online, or I’ll update this post later with the live blog link. Yeah yeah, hassle away. But it pays the bills […]
So I’m Writing A Food Blog
RandomAltFood.com My first attempt (ever) of writing about food. It only has a few posts up now, but I’m slowly adding to it. It’s not a major attempt at creating a major food destination for Melbourne…yet, but more of a hobby and somewhere for me to write about food, given I have a tendency of […]
XXXV
How time flies in one year. Highlights include – stranger than fiction – record results – Lots of shows – a fair bit of travel (I’m even a Qantas Club member now!) – several rounds of dating – finally finding someone who is sane and loves me back – more dramas with the boy at […]
Inquisitr August 2010 Stats
Another great month with new record highs. Thx to the team for their work.
How To Be Alone
Another Month With Win
My thanks to the team as always, without whom this wouldn’t be possible. Now lets not mention the ads though: July=northern summer= not good, but we’re getting closer to the good ad months now. If we can keep the traffic up coming into Oct/ thanksgiving/ xmas…. 🙂
Life Is Good
Upcoming shows I have tickets to July 31: Stephen Fry August 8: Kevin Smith August 27: Joss Whedon Also, money permitting, I’ve got press credentials for BlogWorldExpo in Vegas in October, so that will be my first big trip this year.
Call for questions for Blog Traffic Book
So I’ve finally bitten the bullet and started writing an ebook some 3 or 4 years after I first thought it would be a good idea. The topic will be blog traffic, and everything I know about obtaining it. But I have a small favor to ask: I’m looking for questions to go in the […]
Republicans call for party chairman to quit over Afghan remarks
Michael Steele under pressure to resign after saying US cannot win in Afghanistan, a 'war of Obama's choosing'
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Wait, What…Marni Cordell Gets It Now…Well, A Little Bit Anyway
From the exit post on New Matilda: Looking to the experience of media start-ups in the US and the UK, we have realised that the days of the single-revenue media outlet are over. Nowadays, small outlets are finding new ways to fund their work through what Texas Tribune founder John Thornton calls “revenue promiscuity”: “you […]
So peaceful….
I’m not completely justifying what the Israel Government did. But likewise, the anti-Israeli media coverage is just beyond amazing. Where is the coverage of the above video on News.com.au or the Fairfax sites? The truth is always some where in the middle. I suspect it is here, but you wouldn’t know it from the Australian […]
The Inquisitr Celebrates Its 2nd Birthday With New Traffic Highs
Another birthday passed May 5 for The Inquisitr, and we did the month in style with new traffic highs. The challenge ahead is to get the uniques up now; we’ve finally got the page views per visit up to where is should be, but its the extra uniques that drive the ad revenue. Not bad […]
Questioning Public Internet Stats
Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! So our traffic has finally gone through a growth spurt, headed primarily by a big jump in pages per visitor after installing Facebook commenting (see graph above.) But the jump isn’t reflected in any of our public stats, including Quantcast via direct tracking. Note that our internal stats are backed by […]
The Left May Well Implode
The debate about saving the environment and rapid population growth/ immigration are intrinsically linked. You can’t seriously have both. So how is it possible that groups like GetUp are both running open door immigration campaigns and save the environment campaigns? You can’t rapidly increase population without the services to support the population. That means further […]
The Nanny State Goes After Something Called “Raunch Cuture”
Did someone say theocracy? 🙂 SMH: ‘Raunch culture’ worries government The federal government says young people need to be more vigilant when it comes to sharing raunchy images of themselves. Minister for the Status of Women Tanya Plibersek says there’s a lot happening in the youth culture that “completely passes adults by”. She is especially […]
Anzac Day 2010
My young son asks me… My young son asks me: Must I learn mathematics? What is the use, I feel like saying. That two pieces Of bread are more than one’s about all you’ll end up with. My young son asks me: Must I learn French? What is the use, I feel like saying. This […]