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 work for b5media to actually get around to actually designing a new template for duncanriley.com. I’ve been wanting to do it for weeks, but some little voice in my head keeps telling me its not fair to spend time designing a template for myself when I’ve got a whole pile of ppl at b5media who are waiting for templates to be done.

I’ve not got a lot of spare dosh to spend, but I’m happy to pay a small amount for it to be done (if I’m happy with the results) + the design will get lots of free links from this site and a probably 5 or 6 other PR 6 blogs that I either own or have friends who owe me will link to.

It’s got to be flash though! 3 colum prefered, doesn’t have to be combination 2 + body or body + 2, can be an old fashioned 1 + body + 1.

Some of the sites that I’ve looked at that I like the feel of:
Ajaxian: I love everything about this site. Font’s used for the body in particular
UX Magazine: love the header
Hotel Tamara: odd layout but again, like the fonts
The Travelling Guys: nice site, I’m particularly fond of the bg pic, just not convinced I could get away with a brown background.

Niall Kennedy’s blog comes to mind as well.

I’d love a Western Australian feel to the site, so earthy colors perhaps? I’ve got some great pics available as well from my flying escapades.

If you’re interested email me at [email protected]

Here, here and here as per the links in at Tech.Memorandum.

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 button for this podcast)….then off to the US, with Dave Winer’s Daily Coffee Notes, the Engadget Podcast, The Gilmour Gang and something call PodTechNews which sounded interesting. This should start me off.

First thoughts about the experience (I’m still downloading these at the moment).

The iPod Nano is so small it’s quite amazing. iTunes on the other hand sucks. It’s a slow as a wet weekend to use in terms of browsing. I mean I’ve got a reasonable broadband connection, and yet I’ve got to wait for each page to download like I’d gone back 5 years and was using dial up again.

Impressions on Podcasting pages: you guys need to make this as idiot proof as possible. If you know that the vast majority of people use iPods (79% ish market share roughly??), and therefore the VAST majority of them are going to be using iTunes, why the hell wouldn’t you all have a subscribe with iTunes button on your site? I’m totally new to iPod ownership so I’ve got NO IDEA as to how to use an RSS feed in iTunes, or even sync a Bloglines account with an iPod, and I’d be considered fairly knowledgeable compared to many I’d think. Remember KISS!

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 I say regularly when speaking to people on mobile phones on the Telstra network 🙂

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:

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not bad, still……no business plan that I can see.

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 ad, a part from changing color magically by itself, also lacks an Ads by Google and Advertise here links as well.

Something new from Google perhaps???

This is interesting. It’s basically Tag-based contextual advertising based around CafePress’ user generated content. What will they think of next!

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)

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 yet. Needs a fresh coat of paint and some advertising….

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 🙂