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  • It’s like a Blog Herald reunion..sort of…

    New gig, and I’m joining the team with Matt Craven, who took over at The Blog Herald after I sold it (the site being onsold since). Matt Craven is the sort of guy I wish I had writing for me when I did own the Herald (but could never afford to put anyone on), so I’m in good company, along with David Krug, the reformed Cowboy and by far and away the webs best blog salesman, Muhammad Saleem, Chris Pearson and Thord Hedengren, the up and coming designer with a really, really good feel for template design. Should be fun. My first post is on PayPerPost, why start quietly, with followups of Technorati’s questionable numbers, and a new service called Wretch…if anyone has heard of Wretch leave a comment there, I’m always fascinated by big things that I haven’t previously known about. Enjoy 🙂

     

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  • Google Video now working in Bloglines

    Word on the street during the week was that Google Reader now supports inline video. I don’t use Google Reader, although with the amount of buzz around for the service I might have to take a second look, but the good thing for all you Bloglines fans out there: it would appear that Google Video atleast is now supported from within Bloglines…no idea if this was Google’s doing or Bloglines doing, nor whether it extends to other video includes (such as YouTube), but it’s a nice step. Screenshot is of working Google Video from Blogebrity.

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  • Australian Blogging Conference delayed

    I was literally going to try and book for frequent flyer flgihts today, then got this from Peter Black:

    Unfortunately due to a last minute and unexpected problem with sponsorship, QUT has decided to postpone the Australian Blogging Conference until later in the year. We were faced with the option of running the conference with a registration fee or postponing it, and we have chosen to stick with our original vision and ethos and hold the conference without a registration fee later in 2007.

    At this stage we are now planning to hold the conference in August this year. I will advise of the exact date as soon as it has been finalised.

    August in Brisbane is plesant…certainly a lot warmer than Bunbury.

  • Fun with Yahoo!

    I’m not to blame, but it does seem that others are having fun with Yahoo’s new Wii splog portal (from the front page):

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  • Oh god! MyBlogLog is forcing Yahoo! ID’s as well.

    Just when I was forced to have a Yahoo! ID with Flickr, MyBlogLog, newly acquired by Yahoo! is following suite. GRRRRRRRRRRR x 999999999.

    (via 901am)

     

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  • Congrats to Shiny Media

    Andy Merrett at The Blog Herald covers a $4.5 million investment into UK blogging network Shiny Media. Insert the old fogy sound here as I remember when Shiny Media consisted of all but one blog, but a good one at that. Congrats to the team at Shiny, $4.5m @ 50% sounds like a reasonable, fair and equitable investment for a blog network, and as some one who has been following your progress for a number of years, I know that it is well deserved. But one question: Real English or US English on your blogs? it’s the 99 million dollar question 🙂

     

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  • Vista dreaming

    Despite all the hype about Windows Vista I’ve not felt the need to run off to the shops and buy a copy, after all, what exactly does it do that XP doesn’t do? having said that however, I love to play with new things, so I remembered today that the Acer Laptop I bought in December came with a Vista upgrade voucher. I naturally presumed there would be some sort of cost involved, but it was a voucher none the less. This is where it gets interesting.

    So the intructions say to ring the appropriate number for your country, which I do. Within a couple of seconds I could tell the call had been routed offshore…you could hear the line quality. First option: do you speak English, press 1. So I press 1. 20 minutes later, I get an operator, but the “do you speak English” part might have been a moot point, it wasn’t an Indian Call Centre but at a guess mainland China. So I explain the situation, it doesn’t compute, and about 10 minutes later I get through to the operator what I’m saying. Great, you’ll need to scan a copy of your purchase receipt and a copy of the Certificate of Authenticity, and send it to the email address you’ll get in the email Acer will send you. Two problems. 3 hours later: NO EMAIL. second problem, the Certificate of Authenticity consists of a sticker on the bottom of the laptop, how exactly am I suppose to scan it (photo below). I await with interest the email, and look forward to sending the picture :-)…good news I guess, free upgrade via Acer….if I ever get the email.

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  • You know you’re getting old when…

    It’s the golden child’s first day at school. It only seems like yesterday they were chopping him out of she who must be obeyed’s stomach 🙂

    Happy first day at school son, and I know you’ll look forward to reading this post at Archive.org in 2020. We’re proud of you, just a shame about the 13 years of punishment ahead of you, but I know you’ll kick some you know what along the way. I’d expect nothing less. Of course the next step from Lego.com is Adsense and $100 a week…maybe when you turn 6 🙂

    declan

  • WTF? Technorati lauches a Digg clone.

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    Steve Rubel reports on Technorati launching a Digg clone named WTF. Yep, WTF but meaning where’s the fire…I kid you not. Why didn’t they just call it Where’s the Cheese? or is that phrase a TM of the Australian Dairy Corporation?. Peter Russell Clarke could be the head spokesman and all. Talking of WTF, Peter Russell Clarke has a MySpace page. WTF, WTC? Just in case though you are looking for some feelgood Digg cloned goodness at Technorati, don’t rush, WTF(ire) is a WTF(*ck) on service, never a good sign when launching something.

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  • An ascendant Pinoy blogosphere

    It’s all happening in the Philippines. Despite the occasional bad strange odd different apple, the Pinoy blogosphere is rocking, and it’s not just the Philippines greatest export to the world BryanBoy, it’s The Bayanihan Blog Network. OK, so the first word is a definite tongue twister, but take a look anyway!