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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.
Saving the Merc
Dave Winer points to the effort to save the Mecury News. My problem. I went to the site that aims to save it as part of the employee buyout. No way to invest. The Mercury News is a daily read for me, be it via Google. These guys write good stuff. And yet they’ve got […]
Shaun Carney, pay attention!
Shaun Carney, pay attention!: Yaro Starak vs Tim Blair. It’s not even Darren you need to consider.
The curse of duncanriley.com strikes again.
Maybe I’m just tired, but we’ve just gone through an outage at b5media, our first big outage with our current webhosts, and it was within a week of duncanriley.com joining the server. It seems every time this site joins a server I kill the web host. I’ve nearly lost count at how many web hosts […]
The Age gets it totally wrong.
You know, you’d think after talking to Darren the other week The Fairfax Media would get it right, but here we go again with Shaun Carney The emergence of Crikey and Australia’s most popular ?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Ǩ¬ù or, to be accurate, most frequently visited ?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Ǩ¬ù blogger, Tim Blair, who reportedly makes a small sum from his efforts, […]
The Dave Winer count down clock
This is mean. I suppose the sites title says it all, doesn’t it.
The Disingenuous Robert Scoble: one mans snark is another mans valid criticism
Dave Winer and Robert Scoble have been rallying against what they see as a rise of snarkiness amongst bloggers lately. Scoble’s most recent post here takes the argument he’s been making lately and calls it a lynch mob. Now as much as he makes a valid point in relation to the way Dave Winer has […]
Something very odd in Singapore
Apparently only 1% of young Singaporeans believe blogs, but 88% of them read newspapers and it would seem, believe them more than blogs. This from a country well known for it repressive control of free speech. Winston Smith need not apply for residency in Singapore.
Is this cheating Adsense?
Spotted this Adsense ad here at duncanriley.com I’d think putting your mobile number in an Adsense ad would be cheating, wouldn’t it, because you’d no longer have to click on the ad?
Why would you want to run XP on a Mac?
Lots of buzz about running XP on a Mac, but I don’t get it. I’d rather run Mac OSX on a PC, for starters the hardware is cheaper, it runs faster, and it isn’t white. Now I know there are a lot of Mac users reading this, but at the end of the day I […]
Dancing Koala’s?
Caught a little bit of the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony last night, only a little bit, and what did I see? dancing Koala’s. God, the cultural cringe…. as the ad should go, Where the f*ck in the world are you, and then I’d add, hopefully not in Melbourne during the Commonwealth Games 🙂 More at […]
George Clooney: it wasn’t me, proof as to why Hollywood types shouldn’t be blogging
Looks like Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post, the so-called blogging site of the stars, has been indulging in a little pretend blogging in the name of George Clooney. Just goes to prove why blogging is really the communications tool of the masses, not the elites, because the gliterati of Hollywood just can’t be trusted. […]
Good advice to teens: Learn how to speak and write correctly.
Quidzilla over at the SEO Black Hat blog gives some great advice to teens looking at making it online: Learn how to speak and write correctly. Of course, given my poor spelling and grammar (18 years of spell checking does that) I should never be one to give this advice, however he makes a good […]
Diversity and Marketshare
Trevor Cook and Cameron Reilly are both 100% right on the new Australian cross-media ownership laws. Trevor points our that the MSM just don’t get it. He’s right, they are so insular they don’t see what’s going on around them and it will also be their eventual downfall. Atleast the US Media can see the […]
New Coat of Paint
Yep, new server (on the b5media one now), and new coat of paint. Thanks to the people who offered to redesign it, in particular Jesse (who needs to send me the best link for her). The blog has sort of joined the b5media stable so I could essentially cheat and tweak the b5media template, which […]
Memeorandum launches Celebrity service
The latest from the team that bought you Memeorandum and Tech.Memorandum: WeSmirch. (via TechChrunch)
Anyone for a Nuclear powered Flying Saucer?
And I though the Western Australian Government Railways were bad (or TransWA or what ever they call themselves this week), check this one out: British Rail patented a Thermonuclear powered flying saucer!
Bloody Hell, Dave Winer to give up the ghost
We love you Dave, don’t go. The day Dave Winer quits blogging though will be the top of the blogging market in terms of growth, because if and when Dave stops so will the growth in blogging because one of the plugs and the bottom of the blogosphere would have been pulled. Sure, he’s a […]
Is Google going nuts
This just isn’t right.
Bloggies announced
Results here. Congrats to Darren at Problogger for taking out an award. Lobbylu won Australia’s best blog for about the 5000th year running….yawn, but the real upset this year is the lack of the big blog network sites on the winners list. From what I can see I can’t see a Weblogs Inc., site on […]
NY tech
From the NY Times, all the Web 2.0 firms in NYC: more here.