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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.
Britney Spears getting divorced
I’m not longer writing a Britney Spear site for a blog network, but I always knew that this would eventually happen: Britney Spears files for divorce in LA: Reuters.
You know decisions you’ve made in the past were right when….
A blogger has been invited on to the set of the TV show she blogs about to exclusively meet the cast and crew of the show! As I write this Sheila is in a hotel getting ready to visit the set of Medium. Congrats Sheila. Amazing stuff. There’s a tie up directly with a major […]
Not going to Techcrunch now
Sorry to those who had emailed me saying they had looked forward to meeting me, or catching up either at Techcrunch, or the day after it in New York. Unfortunately I’ve had my permission to attend removed and am unable to leave work in Toronto for the trip. Maybe another time, or even in the […]
Take a stand for freedom online
My article this week at The Blogging Times is dedicated to Reporters Sans Frontiers 24-hour online demo against Internet censorship (more details at RSF here). I wrote the article on Monday morning. 24 hours later and what do I read in Bloglines: The Guide: On November 3rd, US telecom giant Verizon says it will disconnect […]
Putting Apple in its place
Video as follows (not viewable in the RSS feed, sorry):
Bigpong still smells
Benjamin Haslem writes at Corporate Engadget about experiencing poor customer service from Foxtel, and suggests that it’s evidence that Telstra’s pathetic customer service. I’ve got relatives here who just moved house: Telstra for phone and Telstra Bigpong for the net. The phone went across ok, but the stupid thing is, despite both the line and […]
Will the person asking “do you want fries with that” be in India?
FortWayne.com reports on the rise in the use of call centres to take orders at fast food outlets. At the moment they (the call centres) are in the same town, but it doesn’t take a genius to know that if your using a call centre to take an order in a drive thru line it’s […]
Leaving the United States?
This Slashdot comment thread is probably one of the more interesting reads I’ve had lately…altough be warned, to read it all takes quite some time. As one commenter noted, it’s nice not to see just another flamewar but some interesting discussion.
Chaser Classic Clips: dumb Americans
For RSS readers there’s video below:
Free cards!
Darren has the details at Problogger, but there doesn’t seem to be the usual we only send to the States b.s. you get with a lot of these offers. I’ve just ordered mine. As a concept though they are rather cool, it will be interesting to see the quality once they’re delivered.
Freedom is fickle: the national disgrace of press freedom, or the lack there of
Australia comes in 35th on RSF’s freedom of the press list behind countries including Ghana, Lithuania, Bosnia, Cyprus and even New Zealand. It’s a complete and utter national disgrace, but not surprising really, our Federal Government jails journalists for not revealing their sources, video bloggers will shortly potentially need to be licensed to do video […]
Video killed the Podcasting Star
My post for another week at The Blogging Times was on video (again)…and naturally I had some fun with video editing 🙂 Enjoy:
Why the Pay Per Post folks are rubbing their hands with glee: it’s all free publicity
Jeff Jarvis ways in on Pay Per Post via Jason Calacanis, who brings it up (yet) again. I know Jason has called Pay Per Post a cancer, and whilst I’ve previously disagreed on some levels (essentially I’m not against others using it, but they should force disclosure), if it is indeed cancer, Jarvis and Calacanis […]
The numbers still don’t add up 2
SEOmoz has a brilliant post researching metrics using real log file data and comparing it to available metrics. Their conclusion: “This survey represents only a tiny sampling of sites in a niche sector, albeit a relatively popular one in the blogosphere and webdev/tech space. Based on the evidence we’ve gathered here, it’s safe to say […]
From the Arse end of the world to the rest of it
Darren posts about our forthcoming trip to Toronto. Darren gets the easier of our trips. Bunbury is roughly 2 1/2 hours South of Perth, and Perth is literally at the arse end of the world…they say it’s the most remote capital city in the world, and they aren’t lying. Unlike Darren’s trip, god must of […]
Free TV?
Viidoo. This is probably illegal…but the quality is amazing. A full review at Web TV Hub (via Digg). Free US TV channels…Im sitting here watching as clear as day NBC11 from the West Coast of the States…it’s apparently warm there at the moment, not that I’ve got any idea what the temps are in Celcius..worth […]
Blogging Times preview
OK, fun with webcams and video, but here’s the preview for my weekly column at The Blogging Times this week which will be online shortly…and yes, interesting light affects when I have the blinds open in my office 🙂 Tags: The Blogging Times
Ummm…I’m on this weeks Blog Herald podcast
Im the guest on this weeks Blog Herald podcast. Aside from saying Ummm to often, I think I did ok, at least I held relatively held myself back when asked an interesting question towards the end 🙂
There are no rules
Sometimes I find it’s difficult to know what to write for my weekly column at The Blogging Times, and then I just threw out the rule book. Here’s a side thought though, is there a word to describe this style of writing? Chartreuse does it best, I’m literally a pale imitation, and yet it’s somewhat […]
Liz Strauss joins the Opinion section at The Blogging Times…and yes, I still dig this as a business plan
Congrats to b5’s Successful Blogger (literally) Liz Strauss on news that’s she’s joined me and the party that is happening at The Blogging Times. I’ve got nothing to disclose at this point about the site, I don’t own a share in it, but I do get paid a small retainer to write a weekly column […]