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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.
Blogging becoming asset in agency eye
Interesting article here. I love this quote: “Indeed, today’s more pressing question isn’t whether you can get a job if you blog, but, rather, whether you can get a job without a blog.” (via Steve Rubel)
Measuring Podcast Audiences
Neville Hobson makes an interesting point: “But there?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s one significant statistic we can?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢t yet determine – how many people actually listen to each show. We also have a link on each show notes post where you can click and listen there and then rather than download the MP3 file. And as Shel and I cross-post […]
Another new toy
Stellar Browse. Again, it was cheap 🙂 I need to ban myself from visiting either Sitepoint or eBay for a while, however I’m hoping to learn a bit about the scripts behind it by buying a site already set up, as I did with Godly Reminders.
Land in America?
Noticed this site via a submission to Godlyreminders: http://ownapieceofamerica.us/index.php I suppose it’s similar to One Share. Interesting idea, I wonder how legit it is though?
Blogger banning legit blogs
From ignoring the problem to going to far.
Would some one like to design a new template for duncanriley.com?
A little bleg here, because she who must be obeyed has just about spent all the proceeds from the sale of The Blog Herald on the new palace I’ll be moving into in about 2 weeks time (after I also spend a week laying the flooring….). I’m way to busy designing templates and doing other […]
More on the SMH article
Here, here and here as per the links in at Tech.Memorandum.
Riley gives in: buys an iPod
Yep, I’ve finally succumbed and bought an iPod, a little 1gb iPod Nano. She who must be obeyed will be annoyed. Music? what music, it’s straight across to The Podcast Network to subscribe to some quality podcasts. On the list so far: G’day World, The Media Center Show (note to Cameron, no subscribe with iTunes […]
Bloody Stupid
The Poms ban the Australian tourism ads which conclude with “where in the bloody hell are you”. Mind you, I don’t really get the slogan, I’d think something like “where the hell are you” or “where the f*ck are you” would actually be a more accurate use of Australian English, certainly the later is something […]
Bloody hell, it works
YAW2S (yet another Web 2.0 site): http://similicio.us Odd thing is, I typed in the URL for this, my personal blog, and the list was pretty good really: People who liked duncanriley.com also liked: 1 simplenomics.com similar 1 theblogstudio.com similar 1 offbeathomes.com similar 1 evans.blogware.com similar 1 wordpress.org similar 1 theworldaccordingtomaw.blogspot.com similar 1 webusability.com similar 1 […]
Strange Google Adsense ads
I was just setting up a new template over at Supernanny Rules and I spotted this ad: I thought I must have stuffed the Adsense code up. I re did it 3 times, and yet still the same ad. It should look like this: Odd thing is, both ad codes are identical. The odd Adsense […]
CafePress.com Introduces TopicAds
This is interesting. It’s basically Tag-based contextual advertising based around CafePress’ user generated content. What will they think of next!
How long to Fold folds?
Another wacky Web 2.0 service: Fold. As they say: me no see no business plan here! and a very limited market to boot. (via Steve Rubel)
New toy, or why I shouldn’t be allowed to spend money 🙂
It was cheap: Godlyreminders. I was actually bidding on another site at Sitepoint from the same guy but missed it, and I’ve always wanted a link directory, if only to learn how they work. He dropped me a PM to see if I was interested. Still haven’t really had any time to play with it […]
Windows is stupid
But we all know that don’t we. I haven’t been able to see any of my sites with the www included for days due to some stupid Windows issue. Two lines fixed it all. Hopefully now I’m back 🙂
WP-Macros
Aarons got a new plug: WP-Macros…..damn fine idea Aaron.
Is Origami Left Handed?
Yep, the first pick of Microsoft’s you-beaut Origami has leaked (photo via Origami Portal) My question is this? is it left handed? the mouse like device is situated on the left hand side. Now I’m left handed but I use a mouse right handed, but I know other left handed people who prefer a mouse […]
Blog Explosion for Sale
And people though The Blog Herald was a big sale! Check this out. – BE is approaching 50,000 members – We have served 22 million visits via surfing blogs and millions of others across the site – BE signs up on average 100-150 new members per day – BlogExplosion has over 1 million listings in […]
WSFTP: about time
Just moving servers (again) today, I’ve got my nice new dedicated box set up at webnx, and what do I discover? that the new version of WSFTP allows server to server ftp transfers, do I don’t have to download the blog then upload it again…..about time to!
Welcome to Autumn
I just noticed it’s the 1st of March. What happened to summer? Sure, a couple of hot days, and a did spend an hour swimming yesterday at the beach (it was mighty fine I’d add), but now it starts to get cold! WTF??? weird summer, weird year 🙂