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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.
Valleywag is an eyesore!
Zoli writes that the new version of Valleywag is an eyesore. He’s right. WTF was Nick Denton thinking? Further proof that gay stereotypes are wrong, because not all gay men have a strong sense of style and fashion…indeed, I think if Nick Denton launches any more makeovers like this the only thing people will be […]
Does Size Matter in the global economy?
An interesting observation I’ve made while I was away: size sometimes is different. It’s odd, but it’s the little things you notice: the fact that the toilets are full of water and are low to the ground, that 10c coins are smaller than 5c coins….and in North America a broadsheet newspaper isn’t the same size […]
Web 2.0 irony
News Corp. Looking At BubbleShare: Techcrunch. If it wasn’t a bubble before, it looks like it might be with this deal 🙂
Going to TechCrunch NY again
If you’re reading this post I’m dead….sorry, wrong intro, I’m not Pauline Hanson (Australian joke). If you’re reading this post I’m on my way to North America via Hong Kong, and the good news is that I’ll be able to go to the TechCrunch Party in New York again. I’ll also probably spend a couple […]
PayPerPost plus?
Steve Rubel points to LoudLaunch, yet another PayPerPost competitor (how many have their been lately??), although it would appear that the relationship might be pre-blog as opposed to post-blog: ie, you start up a blog on a topic with an advertiser behind you. Sounds like a solid idea, but it will be interesting to see […]
TLA Acquired by MediaWhiz
Congrats to the crew at Text Link Ads on being acquired by MediaWhiz. Like a lot of people I hadn’t heard of MediaWhiz before today, so I’ve got no idea what to expect. But I will say this to the new owners: TLA does a brilliant job with what it does, don’t mess with it […]
Big Brother on Second Life
Another reason to join the community at Second Life. I must get on more often, every 2 weeks or so just isn’t enough 🙂
Another day, another set of refreshing feeds
Am I currently the only person out there who is sick and tired of refreshing feeds? If you’re using Bloglines and you’re subscribed to any feed that uses feedburner you’ll know what I mean. I just re-read the last 2 days posts for Techcrunch for the third time today. Blogaholics I saw 1 month old […]
The Blog Herald is hiring
Details at The Blog Herald. I’m biased, but it would be a good gig 🙂
Vox doesn’t suck, and thinking outside the square in Web 2.0
Ben Bleikamp posts that SixApart, and in particular, Vox sucks. He has a go at some of SixApart’s other products, and sure, there’s been some mistakes in the past, decisions that certainly I’ve been very vocally against, but their products (MT, TypePad, LiveJournal) work for the people who use them, and I would presume have […]
Even spooks are using Wikis
Reuters reports that the U.S. intelligence community on Tuesday unveiled its own secret internal wiki, saying that Wikipedia’s format is key to the future of American espionage. Struth. No word as to what wiki platform they are running on, but given the comparisons to Wikipedia you’d guess they’re using mediawiki. Unfortunately the service wasn’t named […]
A serious Alexa competitor?
Greg Sterling at Search Engine Journal points to Compete’s Snapshot, a new service offering Alexa like stats. From what I can gather the company compares itself more to comScore in it’s methodology, promoting the service as the “First premium web metrics tool made available for free”. The stats come from over 2 million users of […]
TPN and News hook up
Congrats to Cam on the news that TPN and News Corp have hooked up to produce a celebrity podcast for news.com.au, one of Australia’s leading online news sites. Nice to see Australian companies looking at doing deals like this, now if only they’d get their chequebooks out and fund TPN so we can keep it […]
Yahoo! to buy AOL?
Fortune reports that Yahoo! is in talks with Time Warner to acquire AOL. Naturally it makes business sense but every time one of the bigger companies are gobbled up, that’s one less major site/ competitor out there, and further consolidates internet traffic at the top. OK, so we all know the barrier to entry onto […]
TechCrunch Party wait list open
Mike Arrington with the good news for those who cant get a ticket. I’m not sure I’m allowed to say from who, but I managed to get a ticket so I’ll be in NY on the 16th. My first trip to the States as well, and all for a tech party, so here’s hoping it’s […]
A slippery slope?
TechDirt on Weblogs Inc vs Newsgator. My natural inclination (dare I say once again) is to side with Jason Calacanis on this, however Mike does make an interesting point. It’s an issue I still struggle with when it comes to full vs part feeds..how do you actually measure the return on these sorts of things, […]
I see red
Nick Carr on the growing communist tones in Web 2.0. He’s not the only person to have seen it. You can see it in Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail book as well. Web 2.0 shouldn’t be about ideology in terms of being a purist pursuit, it should only be about freedom of choice and anything […]
This is fucking hillarious
Scoble reports that Tim Bray of Sun fame is in strife after dropping the f word. OK, so sometimes even humble I self censor myself here at duncanriley.com at times, after all you never really want to offend people too much, however sometimes there really is no reasonable alternative to using fuck, or even fucking […]
The bandwidth conundrum
Scoble on Video: First, the videos I?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢m putting up are around 200MB a piece. The bandwidth distributors I know are charging $.14 or more PER GIGABYTE to distribute those videos. So, that comes to $28, or more for 1,000 downloads (if my math is right). Wait a second here. We?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢re going to collect $10 in […]
So the YouTube secret is out: the big guys took a stake as well
The Blogging Times has the scoop:Universal, Sony BMG Music entertainment and the Warner Music Group have all taken small share holding in YouTube. In you can’t beat them, join them I guess, but on a deeper note are the big record and movie houses finally changing their tune? (pardon the pun 🙂 ).