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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.
Play Pacman
Ok. so Im playing with the Google Gadget things.. but this is sort of fun. The odd thing though is that the sizing doesn’t want to work…odd.
Google Gadgets
Just what the world needs, more plugins for webpages…although having said this the flexibility with some of these is pretty good.
Watching Big Brother
James Martin has launched Google WatchDog with this post. It’s too late James and Lynn. Google already is big brother, or didn’t you get the memo 🙂 Looks like another blog to add to Bloglines.
Is China at War with the United States
China Attempted To Blind U.S. Satellites With Laser: Defense News.com If China has indeed fired lasers at US Satellites, then wouldn’t this be normally considered an act of war? If the US is indeed turning a blind eye to this, then what else is the US Government not sharing?
34 million blogs in China: report
Interesting figures from the China Daily: 34 million blogs in China, but 70% haven’t been updated in over a month. 17 million bloggers in China. 75 million Chinese read blogs (for memory there’s about 110 million people on the internet in China, so thats a big figure). Technorati tracks approx 50 million blogs. Still don’t […]
Bitttorrent sites reviewed
Nice review of Bittorrent sites over at this blog (no idea whether it has a name or not…?!) (via Slashdot). I’ve never heard of a couple of the sites, in particular the top ranked BT Junkie. Worth a look. Tags: Bittorrent
Adsense is dead, and Digital Incest!
For those of you new to duncanriley.com, or who haven’t followed my ramblings since the Blog Herald days, I like to read and subscribe to ebook gurus. Most of them are completely and utterly full of sh*t, but I’ve always found them interesting from a marketing perspective. But I digress once again, because for once […]
Weird Al does it again
A note if you’ve come here due to receiving spam
A note if you’ve come here to duncanriley.com due to receiving spam. It isn’t me. I’ve got a catch all on duncanriley.com for incoming email, but aside from one email address there isn’t any others being used. Please don’t send me abusive emails or remove requests, simply, someone is spoofing @duncanriley.com email addresses and sending […]
Another blog on the block
I was sitting here thinking to myself hmmm…I haven’t posted anything here in over 2 days…news wise it’s been really quite, and with the golden child at home recovering from a tonsillectomy I’ve not been 100% in front of my computer either…indeed, I thought I might write a post about how quite it’s been news […]
Monday Morning
Monday morning sucks, and yet it’s good all at the same time. There’s usually nothing much good to read in my Bloglines subscriptions, and that sucks, because it’s still Sunday night in the States. But the fact that I’ve got nothing much to read is actually a good thing because it frees up time to […]
An Inconvenient Truth, or the futility in trying
Todays philosophical thought. Does your collective wisdom and experience mean diddly squat when no body believes you? Is it futile in trying when those parallel to you or above you won’t accept facts because those facts are inconvenient to their overall picture of how things should be? Is it futile trying to persuade the unpersuadable? […]
The Ford Lesson
Scoble points to Bold Moves, and online video blog produced by Ford aimed at employees, investors and influencers. It’s bloody amazing. It’s candid, it’s frank, and it’s honest. Indeed, having watched the current video on the site (episode #10) I feel like I’ve just woken up and watched the start of a revolution in corporate […]
Why you shouldn’t use Captchas on your blog
My latest weekly column at The Blogging Times. And yes, I’m quite serious, and no, it’s not PC BS, god, anyone who knows me knows how anti-PC I am (indeed, I think I regularly make my business partners in b5media blush), but just because I’m anti-PC doesn’t mean that I think that people choosing to […]
The Fark take on Steve Irwin’s death
Ok, it’s probably not cool to laugh about the dead, but this is a little funny (from Fark): Tags: Steve Irwin
Should Steve Irwin get a State Funeral?
Here’s an interesting question: should Steve Irwin get a State Funeral. Despite some of his more annoying characteristics, there’s little doubt that as a man Irwin did far, far more than many others in the past in promoting Australia abroad, and after all, we’ve given them to people far less worthy than of one than […]
Yikes, you know Steve Irwin dying is big news when…
It’s the lead story on CNN: but then again, how sh*t is Google News, lead story links to the Steve Irwin dead story at American political blog Wizbang: Fox News: BBC…ok, not main story, but top 3: Tags: Steve Irwin
Why the ABC should be allowed to show ads online
Steve Irwin dies, and Aunty can’t handle the bandwidth, another reason why the Government should allow ads at abc.net.au:
OK, so I was wrong about the Sydney Morning Herald
Got into a bit of a debate on another blog the other day (sorry, cant remember where), where I defended the Sydney Morning Herald online against claims it’s become too tabloid and full of crap. Steve Irwin died what..about 2 hours ago as I write this, news.com.au went straight to the story with top headlines […]
Vale Steve Irwin: Crocodile Hunter 1962-2006
Australia’s own clich?É?í?Ǭ©d gift to the world, Steve Irwin, is dead, killed in an accident doing what he loved best, interacting with deadly wildlife, in this case, a Sting Ray that seems to have taken offence to his presence. Indeed, it’s not hard to image Irwin saying “crikey” as his last word as the stingray […]