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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.
Open source Digg-style CMS?
Jason Calacanis points to Federated Media’s new Digg style site:SearchMob. Haven’t had a deep look at it, but what I did notice is the link to the CMS, a Web 2.0 Open Source package called Pligg. Yep, you to can now run your own Digg clone from the comfort of your own home and all […]
More proof that Australia is out of touch
This article on SEO from Australian IT. As Threadwatch headlines it: “Australian IT Now Teaching SEO Tricks from 1997”. This from our national newspaper. Yikes. I some journalists wonder why people are moving away from the MSM to blogs and other alternative news sources.
Chinese blog slips to the Top of Technorati
Amazing stuff: the top blog in terms of incoming links now at Technorati: this blog, a Chinese language blog hosted by Sina.com. I’m surprised there’s not a huge amount of discussion about this as yet: I picked it up a Techmeme and there was only one incoming link on the story…remember this blog has knocked […]
Blogging the Media Connect Influence Conference Day 2, or I love poker
Day 2. The blogging talk went well yesterday, at least the feedback was immensly positive, which was a relief in itself. Met the Australian Poker Champion and a chap who is the Asia-Pacific Rep for Pokerstars.com, interesting conversation, but as dinner sponors they had a couple of games of poker running for funny money….great stuff, […]
Blogging the Media Connect Influence Conference
Day 1. Some 24 hours after leaving the end of the world and I find myself in The Hunter Valley, NSW for the Media Connect Influence Conference, with a presentation to make on blogging in a bit over 60 minutes that I haven’t written yet. 🙂 The first session was Web 2.0. Unfortunately if this […]
Is today the day I stop using Google?
For some reason Google keeps defaulting today to the Google personalised home page, not Google search, even when I type in www.google.com. It’s frustrating. It’s trying to force me to use a service I don’t want to use, but what’s worse is that is ridiculously slow to load in comparison to the normal Google front […]
Is Digg now saying gaming Digg is ok?
From Kevins Rose’s blog (emphasis added): …today we read a couple blog posts that highlight users digging each others stories. This is something we encourage through our friends features and will continue to expand as digg evolves. It is our goal to create a platform in which you can share and promote news that is […]
Did SixApart buy Rojo for the Feedreader or the staff?
SixApart acquires Rojo. Coverage and Niall and Techcrunch. Odd thing though is this line: “Six Apart intends to sell a majority interest in Rojo?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s newsreader services in the coming months.” So why buy something just to flog it off later? Rojo doesn’t seem like a natural fit for SixApart either, after all its a feedreeder […]
Tucows buys dead cow Kiko
Tucows has announced that they were the buyer of the dead Web 2.0 startup Kiko. Interesting buy, mainly because probably like a whole pile of other people, I’ve always thought of Tucows as a Web 1.0 company. Is this a step into the Web 2.0 field for the once mighty software download player? only time […]
Heading Eastwards
I’m off to the Hunter Valley this weekend for the Media Connect Influence Conference. I’ll be in Sydney briefly on Saturday 9 September then off to the Hunter Valley Sunday through to Tuesday. My thanks to Phil Sim for the invite. I know fellow Western Australian resident Richard Giles is attending, but if anyone else […]
This has got to be a spoof, right?
The New New Internet Conference. Christopher Locke notes that his favourite line is “Gain a Deep, Non-Technical Understanding of Web 2.0”, personally I like “How to Apply Web 2.0 Techniques to Improve Life and Business”…yeh, like we really all want to adopt Web 2.0 in life and business, after all it would involve taking a […]
Something that actually needs Web 2.0
Darren at Problogger points to The Seal Generator, a site that lets you make your own official seal. Sort of nifty idea, but it desperately needs a Web 2.0 makeover because theres no Ajax that updates the image as you make it, something you sort of come to expect in the days of Ajax enabled […]
If Browzer is bad, isn’t Yahoo! as well?
Looks like the Browzar browser might be a bit dodgy, with Techcrunch and the Web 3.0 log reporting that it’s actually IE in disguise + it’s what they claim as “adware”, because the browser utitlises Overture for search results and it’s near on impossible to change away from Overture. And yet Overture is 100% owned […]
Google Image Labeler launched
More at Techcrunch, but strangely addictive, if some what stupid.
The Street gets it totally wrong on blog reach
Weird article at The Street on AOL/ Weblogs Inc’s new blog strategy. Most of it is obviously factual, but all I can say is WTF!? to this quote (emphasis added by me): AOL’s blog expansion comes as advertisers are becoming increasingly interested in reaching people who read and write the online journals because it lets […]
Browzar launched
A new web browser from the people behind Freeserve in the UK: Browzar. Lots of buzz around the place that I won’t bother repeating, their main goal is to provide localised private web browsing by deleting/ not recording the web sites you visit using it. But that’s not why I find it interesting…nope, I like […]
Any one up for a online radio show?
Stumbled across this site the other day: BlogTalkRadio. Fascinating concept, basically live podcasting with the ability to take call ins (upto 5 people on air at once, unlimited queue in for others). The killer feature: the ability to do the show without the need to edit or record the audio yourself. It works by users […]
OK, so Feedburner is pretty cool
I’ve always had issues with Feedburner in the past, mainly on the basis that you’ve got to give up control of your feed to use the service. Here in lala land (TM) we’ve got our hands on the top notch, whole kit and kaboodle version of Feedburner, the one that you get to host on […]
Aint nobody knows RSS
Dead 2.0 has the stats, only 9% of Americans know what RSS is. Only 2% subscribe to a feed. I’d suggest though the actual subscription rate would be higher, it would be similar to the blog conundrum: that in the same way people read blogs without knowing they are reading blogs, I’d reckon that people […]
Yahoo! Flickr maps mashup is completely useless
So Flickr now allows you to geocode your pictures using Yahoo! maps via drag and drop…great, only that Yahoo! Maps is completely and utterly useless outside of the United States and Canada. This is as close as I could get to geocoding my shots from the Big Brother Live Eviction show: Thinking that given the […]