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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.
A battle for blog news supremacy?
There’s some good things happening out in the blog news field of late; competition is good for readers and it’s good for blog news junkies (like me 🙂 ). Each site has some great strengths, and yet none of them look like taking a clear lead in terms of what they are delivering at the […]
Oh God, please no! plus something odd going on at Techcrunch
A new service for backing up photos: Backupr. Another wankr name. I feel sick. What’s really odd though is that the post I saw in Bloglines about it at Techcrunch has oddly been deleted from the Techcrunch site: to this: It’s also not on the main page at the time of writing either…which can only […]
Is Web 2.0 actually a vicious circle?
Steve Rubel makes a very, very brilliant observation on Web 2.0 today… Quietly, an entire Web 2.0 economy has blossomed. The Web sites and blogs that cover Web 2.0 – sites that I really love – are largely supported by ads from startups that also are hoping to capitalize in the rising interest in online […]
Digg over Dugg?
There’s trouble afoot at Digg today, I keep getting this message: Perhaps it’s time Kevin Rose sold out and let someone with some extra server capacity take over 🙂 Tags: Digg, Digg down, Digg not working
Sure, it’s a storm, but there’s lots of bubble activity out on the sea
Grouper purchased by Sony for $65m USD, roughly $70 – $120 USD per user. This is seriously, seriously, nuts. The company that does it’s best to ruin music for all of us with its crappy rootkits and DRM technology buys a video sharing service….wonder how long it takes till Grouper dies….6 months, 12 months? with […]
Content isn’t dead
Chartreuse today suggests that content is dead, but it isn’t because as much as I fear that the rise of the totalitarian nanny state is upon us (socialism meets 1984) content still doesn’t come in one flavour, it comes in many different flavours, and like Ice Cream we all have different favourites, and hence we […]
72 million blogs on Windows Live Spaces, do you believe me now about Technorati?
Robert Scoble reports that there are now 72 million blogs on Windows Live Spaces alone, this when Technorati tracks 50 (odd) million all up across the globe…and people don’t believe me when I say there is 300 million odd blogs out there on the internet because they tell me Technorati says there are 50 million…. […]
Web 2.0: it’s not a bubble, it’s the start of a storm
Australians are often fond of the saying that we call a spade a (insert strong expletive here) shovel. Web 2.0 is, according to many, entering a bubble. And yet bubbles are these nice rounded things that kids make from plastic $2 made in China kits which eventually burst. Sure, Web 1.0 was a bubble, it […]
Web 2.0 remixed…thank god for Robin Good
Fess up time for me, I didn’t sit through the whole Techcrunch Web 2.0 video…it was to long, I lost interest about a quarter of the way in…but Robin Good has stayed loyal to his name and done something good: the Web 2.0 video remix, a total of 3 minutes, which cuts out some of […]
Something not right about this line
From Techcrunch: “it?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s so ajax intensive that it?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s really smooth to use” Is it me of does this sound like a pitch for drugs or similar? 🙂
Robert Scoble 2.0
Robert notes over on his blog today “I think Om and Mike are telling all their fans ?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?Ö‚Äúemail Scoble, it?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢ll keep him uninteresting”. I’m guessing it’s a reference to his more recent posts to Scobleizer…since he’s left Microsoft the tone has changed alot, it’s more personal, more insightful, sure, perhaps less controversial, but for my […]
AOL Acquires GameDaily
Looks like another nice acquisition for AOL, with news that they’ve acquired Games Daily: AOL LLC announced today that it has acquired GameDaily ( http://www.gamedaily.com ), one of the Internet’s leading independent video game publications, from Gigex, Inc. AOL’s agreement with Gigex closed on August 10th, 2006. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founded in 1995 […]
Will the AOL Digg spamming story be the most Dugg story ever?
This story is going to make big headlines in the next couple of days, although I’m sure I’ve read something similar in the past. What shocked me though was the rate in which the story at Digg itself is getting Dugg. I opened the page up at Digg to see what the fuss was about. […]
Blogging at The Blogging Times
Yep, my first rant is live, I’ve signed on the dotted line to do a weekly column at The Blogging Times upon invitation from Chartresue. I tossed up a couple of good ideas for the first post, but I kept coming back to the blogging market place, and the flaws in Long Tail Theory as […]
The coming demise of Mike Arrington, the reporter
The end is nigh…we’ll it is for Mike Arrington, and I’ll tell you why: Crunchboard and Crunchgear. Unlike a whole pile of other people who think that the move by Mike Arrington to launch a gadget blog is nuts (how many times have I read the phrase “not another gadget blog” or similar in Bloglines […]
Trackback Mistakes
Quadszilla over at the SEO Black Hat blog has a very interesting tale of how Trackbacks can get you into trouble here….it’s a must read for every blogger…aside from a WordPress plugin though I’m not sure of any other way of avoiding this other than by not using apostrophes in post headings….which I personally usually […]
How to get rid of the blogging blues: update your feed reeder
I’ve long been an advocate of keeping your feed subscriptions to a minimum, I know when I’ve read about ppl like Steve Rubel and Robert Scoble in the past where they’ve talked about having 500 feeds in their RSS reader accounts I’ve publicly said this is nuts (and 500, BTW, still is)…but I’ve discovered a […]
What to write for my new weekly gig
I’ve just signed up for a weekly gig at another blog (outside of b5..I’ll name it on another day..but it will be a weekly column working with some really cool ppl) but I’m a bit stumped if I know exactly at this stage what to write about (although I’ve got a few ideas)..it’s got to […]
Techcrunch thinks Bloglines is in trouble because Newgator has a toolbar…hmmm.
Bizarre post from Marshall Kirkpatrick over at Techcrunch suggesting that Bloglines needs to look out because…wait for it…Newsgator has launched a toolbar. To quote: While Bloglines has long been the favorite feed reader for people looking for a simple but powerful tool, the new Newsgator toolbar means that users seeking many of these features now […]
9rules is like MySpace….someones got a big head
rofl! Now 9rules has a lot more revenue options than it did when we first launched simply because of the new avenues we have opened up and that is something that I don?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢t think could?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢ve been done if we solely focused on advertising and monetizing things. Same can be said with Myspace. Instead of worrying […]