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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.
Filipinos taking over blogosphere
Joey Alarilla at CNet Asia notes the rise of Pinoy bloggers into positions of prominence in the blogosphere. Not before time, and thoroughly deserved. Congrats in particular to Jayvee on his recent promotion, to others he’s definitely a blogger to watch.
Performancing and PayPerPost
It looks like Santa Claus was kind to Nick Wilson and the team behind Performancing, with news that the metrics arm of Performancing has been sold off to PayPerPost. Naturally it would be remiss of me not to offer congratulations to Nick and the team on the sale, I have little doubt that the money […]
Wikiasari: yet another search engine
It’s supposedly Christmas, although you’d think it’s the silly season with news at Mashable and TechCrunch that Jimmy Wales is going into the search engine game. Just because Wikipedia was successful, it would appear as though Jimmy Wales has been drinking so much of his own Kool Aid he now thinks he can conquer the […]
Old WordPress blogs don’t seem to age gracefully
Apologies to those who were unable to leave a comment here at duncanriley.com over the last 2 days, it would appear as though the site gained a db corruption that needed a quick repair. Odd thing is though, I’ve noticed other blogs I help people out with, or a few oldies I still have, all […]
An Australian Blogging Conference
Des has the details. I was in on one of the emails prior to the announcement, looks like some great speakers lined up, free registration, and Queensland in March usually isn’t quite as hot as Queensland in February..but it will be warm 🙂 There’s also a call for sponsorship, if you’re interested Des has the […]
Maybe SixApart knows something everyone else doesn’t?
Tech Digest reports SixApart’s Mena Trott saying that Vox is winning over burnt out bloggers. I see the logic, and I understand the how, but WTF? Surely this isn’t the key target area for Vox? “People have really embraced it,” she says. “They’re saying they think blogging is fun again. A lot of people got […]
My Christmas wish: that people would either abandon Feedburner or pressure them to get it to play nicely with Bloglines
Another day, the same Chadstone foodcourt. With she who must be obeyed and the golden child catching a movie at Chaddy I’ve got some time to catch up on some reading. And what do I find? Refreshing bloody feeds. Not all of them, just the ones from people using Feedburner. Every single one of them. […]
As some one who lives in Western Australia, I welcome Fairfax with open arms
The Australian Newsagency Blog (via Trevor Cook) reports on the rumour in Crikey yesterday (which I actually saw…after having lapsed my membership for a year I signed up again for the paid version, the Christmas pack was just far too good) that Fairfax is looking at launching online news sites covering states they don’t currently […]
Cowboy buys Workboxers
David Krug has announced the acquisition of Workboxes on both Workboxes and the Hello Cowboy site, which in itself is new to me today, I’m presuming this is the name of Krug’s new consulting and marketing service. It’s an interesting name, and I mean this with all due respect, but I can’t seem to get […]
Like Meatloaf through a Straw: Understanding the Web 2.0 soap opera this week
If you’re like 99.999999999% of the population who are struggling to keep up with this weeks Web 2.0 soap opera, let me humbly present the solution to your problems. Compliments of duncanriley.com and far too long stuffing around on MS Publisher (I don’t have access at the moment to InDesign, I’ll need to fix that), […]
Skype to offer a lie detector
The Beeb reports that Skype is to offer the KishKish Lie Detector as an add-on for Skype users. It apparently analyses audio streams over a Skype call in real time and illustrates the stress levels of the other person, which in theory helps show when the other party is lying. No word on cost yet, […]
Syntagma looking good
OK, so some people are going to have some fun with the headline, but I mean it sincerely. I was cleaning up some of my sidebar links today (ok, it’s like spring cleaning in summer) and I realised I was pointing to the old Syntagma Media site, I fixed the link and thought I might […]
comScore at it again
Forbes reports on the internet metrics tracking company comScore’s software being installed without users knowledge, not the first time I might add, given my online services treat the comScore software and Malware and Spyware: “[The] software is sneaking onto users’ computers without the user agreeing to receive it,” says Harvard University researcher Ben Edelman, who […]
Did Google kill James Kim?
The SMH reports that James Kim took a bad road possibly due to the advice of Google Maps, and that taking the road cost him his life. Certainly if proven true, this could be a world first: Google kills CNet journalist. From the SMH: According to Associated Press, drivers are advised not to take Bear […]
AskCity isn’t cool
Michael Arrington writes at TechCrunch that AskCity is cool. It might be cool if you live in the States, but try anywhere outside of the US. It’s not only not happening, it doesn’t exist. Let’s see: crowded marketplace, lot’s of competitors, you’d want to maximise your potential viewing audience, wouldn’t you? and there’s a damn […]
The Blog Herald sells
My old hunting ground, The Blog Herald, has been sold again. Although I’ve been aware of it being on the market for 6 odd weeks, I’ve got no idea who Blog Media sold it to. It’s weird really that the site has sold again. Twice in 12 months. It’s not that long ago that selling […]
Perspective
Thought your traffic was good? We’ll I’m not about to add a pinch of salt to everyone’s idea of good traffic, but a f*cking great big truck load of it: Perez Hilton did 3.97 million unique viewers in 1 day. Not page views, not visitors, but uniques. I’d guess that that’s probably higher on average […]
Perez to be a test case for Bloggers
TMZ.com reports on news that Mario Lavandeira, aka Perez Hilton is being sued by a Hollywood photo agency for $7.5m US for copyright infringement. (I believe I read elsewhere the agency was X17). Admittedly Perez goes a lot further than other blogs in posting pictures taken from elsewhere, however the case could present a chilling […]
The page view is safe for now
Steve Rubel writes that the Page View is on it’s last legs, because Ajax and DHTML markup will mean that visitors to a page will no longer necessarily call a page from the server. I don’t agree. Sure, with my Web 2.0 cheer squad hat on, I get and support the idea of attention, however […]
Don’t Digg this
Steve Rubel reports on yet another example of Digg coming after mashup and fan sites that dare use the word “digg” in their title. You just can’t be a good Web 2.0 citizen and go around threatening to sue everyone…it just shouldn’t and doesn’t work that way. I’m just waiting till they sue a site […]