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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.
Want Universal Health Cover? You need DIC
TechCrunch covers Change.org, a not for profit social networking site that links donors and charities. Line 4 of the TechCrunch shot of the Tag Cloud is of particular interest for me: “Universal Health Care”. ROFL. If you need Universal Health Care, may I humbly suggest you contact DIC, the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship […]
It’s like a Blog Herald reunion..sort of…
New gig, and I’m joining the team with Matt Craven, who took over at The Blog Herald after I sold it (the site being onsold since). Matt Craven is the sort of guy I wish I had writing for me when I did own the Herald (but could never afford to put anyone on), so […]
Google Video now working in Bloglines
Word on the street during the week was that Google Reader now supports inline video. I don’t use Google Reader, although with the amount of buzz around for the service I might have to take a second look, but the good thing for all you Bloglines fans out there: it would appear that Google Video […]
Australian Blogging Conference delayed
I was literally going to try and book for frequent flyer flgihts today, then got this from Peter Black: Unfortunately due to a last minute and unexpected problem with sponsorship, QUT has decided to postpone the Australian Blogging Conference until later in the year. We were faced with the option of running the conference with […]
Fun with Yahoo!
I’m not to blame, but it does seem that others are having fun with Yahoo’s new Wii splog portal (from the front page):
Oh god! MyBlogLog is forcing Yahoo! ID’s as well.
Just when I was forced to have a Yahoo! ID with Flickr, MyBlogLog, newly acquired by Yahoo! is following suite. GRRRRRRRRRRR x 999999999. (via 901am) Tags: Yahoo, MyBlogLog, 901am
Congrats to Shiny Media
Andy Merrett at The Blog Herald covers a $4.5 million investment into UK blogging network Shiny Media. Insert the old fogy sound here as I remember when Shiny Media consisted of all but one blog, but a good one at that. Congrats to the team at Shiny, $4.5m @ 50% sounds like a reasonable, fair […]
WTF? Technorati lauches a Digg clone.
Steve Rubel reports on Technorati launching a Digg clone named WTF. Yep, WTF but meaning where’s the fire…I kid you not. Why didn’t they just call it Where’s the Cheese? or is that phrase a TM of the Australian Dairy Corporation?. Peter Russell Clarke could be the head spokesman and all. Talking of WTF, Peter […]
No blog is an island unto itself.
Over the weekend Robert Scoble started a big bushfire, claiming that big blogs don’t link to other blogs. He’s right, but unfortunately for Scoble he aimed his gun in the wrong direction at wounded some friendly combatants, in particular Engadget and Gizmodo, who in return are really, really pissed. But I digress somewhat, because Scoble […]
Performancing Implodes
I’ve not said anything about the stuff going on previously at Performancing mostly out of respect for Nick Wilson, the previous CEO, but it just keeps getting worse with news that Performanicng Partners, the advertising arm of Performancing is being closed down, this a month after Performancing Metrics was shut and Nick Wilson resigned from […]
Why I wont be upgrading to WP 2.1 yet
Aaron has a good guide as to what to expect in WordPress 2.1. I won’t be rushing to upgrade due to this line: many plugins will no longer work in 2.1 due to deprecation of database table variables Too much hassle at this stage, and I’m still struggling to upgrade to 2.0.7 on all my […]
TypePad is down!
Went to visit a couple of Wired articles/ blog posts, I got this, no idea as for how long TypePad has been down (it’s 14:30 +9GMT as I type this), but no doubt that others will notice it soon: Tags: TypePad, SixApart
It’s easy to manipulate top blogs, just hire a PR firm
Multichannel Merchant reports on the expansion of UK gadget merchant Firebox into the US market. Unremarkable you’d think, accept for these juicy parts: Bill Linn, a partner with Sandbox Strategies [Firebox’s PR firm], says his firm looked for blogs popular with techies or pop culture enthusiasts, then e-mailed them messages about unique products, deals, and […]
Google’s Blogger now supporting your own URL
This is big news! It’s fair to say that its taken long enough, but at long last Blogger supports private URL’s, beyond the previous abilities to use your own URL for posting but hosting it elsewhere, but to use it with Blogger (or Google as the case may be) as the host. The quote from […]
Windows Home Server sounds good
Bill Gates has announced Windows Home Server at CES. Sounds like a good idea and it’s something I’d think about buying, however how rapped up in DRM is it going to be? Will I be able to store my ripped music on it without any hassles?
Justice Kirby’s MySpace page a Fraud…really?
The Sydney Morning Herald reports on the fake MySpace page authored under the name of leading Australian High Court Activist Judge Michael Kirby. I wonder what gave it away? Was it the “I’m a Pimp” headline?, or the friends list?. The really hilarious thing is the quote from the the MySpace people. The case, which […]
Sometimes the attacks are uncalled for, defending Micheal Arrington
I know Cam of Gday World fame will read this and think that I’m sucking up to Arrington again, but as long time readers will know, my comment is neither for sale, nor is it anything other than representative of my honest beliefs. Of course, as to the matter of whether they are flawed or […]
Know More Media adds 10 new sites
Congrats to the team at Know More Media on the addition of ten new blogs. These guys continue to grow with some great sites. I’d love to know what sort of figures they are doing now, out of personal interest only. Certainly business is a high paying vertical market to be in. Correction: My […]
Studivz…did someone say bubble?
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch reports on the sale of German language Facebook Clone Studivz for 100 million Euros (sorry, no idea how to type the Euro symbol). The site apparently does have 1 million users who one would presume would primarily reside in Germany, but 100 Euros per user as an acquisition price? WTF? It’s […]
Catch me at G’Day World all this week
Obligitory plug, although given last nights Podcast where Cam and I probably offended at least 1 billion people world wide, perhaps I shouldn’t be promoting it, but if you’re interested I’m Co-Hosting the G’Day World Podcast this week with Cam Reilly (no relation). One podcast down and I’ve already broken all my personal rules: no […]