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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.
Adbrite is sick
Reports coming in that Adbrite is sick, that sites serving Adbrite ads are taking for ever to load and even then aren’t showing ads. I’ve just stripped the Adbrite code here from duncanriley.com and the site is now loading nice and quickly, however being the Foundation Day public holiday here (and with the family at […]
OMG! Another South West Blogger
Reading this post at Problogger, and click on the link to this blog, and I find Stuart Robinson, from Busselton, WA, about 30 minutes down the road. That makes 3 South West (WA) bloggers I know of! Maybe on day we can get to 10!
Blogdesk Button
For those people who read my earlier post about Blogdesk and love it as much as I do (it’s the first time I’ve ever used a 3rd party blogging tool for longer than a day, and it’s been 6-8 weeks now!) I’ve done up a button you can put up at your site to help […]
Al Lowe makes a come back
One of my favourite games designers, Al Lowe, he of Leisure Suit Larry fame, a game that I spent many, many hours playing on my old XT with its EGA monitor and 10mb HD, is making a comeback, and in true Al Lowe style, its with a comedy offering. Gamasutra has the interview here. Tags: […]
Spam Matters, only if you use Microsoft products apparently
ACMA has released the new tool in the fight against spam: spam matters, but apparently it only matters if you use Microsoft software because it only supports Outlook and Outlook Express. As a Mozilla Thunderbird user, I’m apparently not wanted. Oh well, ACMA is an evil organisation that stifles free speech and helps protect the […]
Australian TV moguls still don’t get the future of TV and computing
I don’t use IceTV myself, because they don’t offer a regional WA guide, but this company is doing a great job in making programs like Windows MCE more usable by providing a EPG, something that you just cant get in Australia, despite the fact you can pretty much get free EPG’s everywhere else in the […]
Why you can’t trust TV
This is hilarious! From the SMH: An Australian military commander has tried to ensure truth does not become a casualty of conflict in East Timor, but embarrassed a TV network in the process. Australian commander in East Timor Brigadier Michael Slater appeared this morning in a live cross from Dili to the Nine Network’s Today […]
9rules no longer involved in Sex Network
Blog Network Watch reports on the setup of the SexNotWork blog network, and that Paul Scrivens, and others from 9rules, are no longer invovled in the network.
Google Video Ads need some work
Spotted at Hollywood Tuna: a Google Video Ad. One small problem though, at that’s the buffering rate. If you are going to expect people to click on and view video ads, you are going to want them to pretty much work from the moment the play button is clicked. The buffering time on this ad […]
Google Crawling AdWords Landing Pages for Quality
At long last, it looks like Google might be (at least a little bit) cracking down on made for Adsense sites, in this case those who get their traffic using Adwords. From Threadwatch: Google is launching a spider named AdsBot to monitor AdWords landing page quality. Sometime in the coming weeks, a new AdsBot crawler […]
AdSense changes default Ads to Borderless Ads
Darren reports at Problogger that Google’s AdSense has changed default Ads to Borderless Ads. Wise thinking from the Google team. Tags: adsense
Technorati AP deal win-win for bloggers
Great news for all bloggers, with a deal announced by AP with Technorati that will see links to blogs citing AP stories provided to all newspapers that subscribe to AP. From an AP story at Macon.com: Technorati will search blogs for postings that include links to AP stories. Links to those postings will be available […]
SixApart getting into a bit of strife over breast feeding
Valleywag reports SixAparts Live Journal team is in battle with breat feeding advocates over images on LJ blogs showing breast feeding. I’m male, so I’m not even going to go near the whole breat feeding in public issue, but I’d share this advice: banning pictures of a totally legal act undertaken by mothers and their […]
Text Link Ads Calculator
Patrick and Andy over at Text Link Ads have announced the launch of the Text Link Ads Calculator, which can be viewed here. Very handy tool if you’ve ever wondered what sort of money you can get from TLA. Certainly I’ve been having a lot of success with them lately, both personally and with b5media, […]
Crazy AdSense Experiment: Unethical But Legal $10,000/Month
Xedant has the details on how people are gaming Adsense using Adwords and made for Adsense sites. We’ve all seen them before, but these guys spell it out far more clearly for the beginner through to the most experienced online Adsense star.
I’m Back!
My brush with D List Fame: Elise from Big Brother: Lots of Extra probably totally uninteresting photos coming to my Flickr account shortly….once I deal with the 1281….1282….whoops they are still downloading….emails 🙂 Tags: Big Brother
Ask Duncan: Why Do You Love Big Brother?
OK, so the whole ask Duncan thing didn’t work so we’ll (I’m still open for q’s) but Darren ask’s as good question: “Why do you love Big Brother so much?” Well Darren, the short answer: I live in the Country. The long Answer: I live in the Country. Seriously though, we don’t get Channel 10 […]
Now I know American law makers are Crazy: bill to ban Blogs, Social Networking sites for under 18’s
They say only in America. And only in America could law makers, elected representatives, put forward legislation that would punish and ban those under 18 from joining Social Networking sites and blogging, whilst totally ignoring the very people they are concerned about: online predators. I suppose in a society that allows every man and his […]
Will Reciprocal links get you banned from Google
This from a Media Post Email: As Shari Thurow points out, AdSense creates A LOT of so-called search engine spam, which refers to the myriad link farms and other bogus sites appearing in natural listings that make their money off a combination of AdSense and high natural search placement. Link farming is the process of […]
Bugs Bunny in “Adware Rampage”
Reports Online Media Daily: CONTROVERSIAL ADWARE COMPANY 180SOLUTIONS AT the end of last month quietly began offering streams of two shows distributed by Warner Bros. Online. The shows–the soap opera “Deception” and the animated show “Medical Island”–were created specifically for the Web. Both programs are available online exclusively on 180solutions’ consumer site, Zango.com. Visitors to […]