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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.
Dave Sifry gets it right…however the reporting has much to be desired
Congrats again to Dave Sifry from Technorati on another excellent state of the blogosphere report, however, as usual, most reporting on it get the reporting WRONG again, even b5media’s own Darren Rowse: these are numbers they are TRACKING PPL! not the sum total of the entire blogosphere! There aren’t 50 million blogs out there, there […]
How the internet is taking over
Interesting study from McKinsey & Co at the Advertising Age, my favourite quote: “Should everybody shift 30% of their dollars to the web?” asked Amy Guggenheim Shenkan, senior practice knowledge specialist in McKinsey’s San Francisco office. “No. There wouldn’t be room today if everybody wanted to shift online. Last year [online media] was $12.5 billion, […]
AOL Data already available on Bittorrent
AOL says that only around 2000 people accessed their “user data” before the site was shut down….but the very same data is now available on bittorrent right now with Mininova showing 3,971 downloads! Update: noticed at Threadwatch that the data has already been mirrored online as well here. Tags: AOL, AOL Data
Will WordCamp result in a new blogging elite
I’ve been following a fair bit of WordCamp coverage online today, and I can’t help but think: is this the start of the new blogging elite? and I mean that in a positive way, not a negative, after all, there’s no Dave Winer, Robert Scoble or the other usual suspects at this conference. Sure, you’ve […]
Another reason not to use Feedburner: 100 million Chinese Internet users can no longer see your feed
Steve Rubel reports that China has blocked ALL Feedburner feeds into China….that’s a heck of a lot of people who all of a sudden can’t read your feed if you’re using Feedburner. Tags: Feedburner, China
The Second Life Updater is the bane of my life
This has become the bane of my life. Every 3-4 days…same thing, about 20mb+, I’m on 2mb Cable but I’ve still got to wait, I’ve noticed some days it’s a matter of 5 minutes, over days its 50 minutes, either way, does Linden Labs really need to update SL so often???!!!! Tags: Second […]
Second Life Business Mag launches
3pointD.com reports the launch of SL Business Magazine (pdf). It’s not the first publication I’ve seen of this sort on Second Life, but it’s certainly got to be one of the best ones in terms of layout and reading…a must for Second Life fans. Tags: Second Life
Google: do as I say, not as I do
Remember the rants from Google recently about Microsoft building in MSN search into IE7…how it was anti-competitive and all that? well looks like a case of do as I say, not as I do for Google, with ZDNet reporting that the newest release of the Google toolbar blocks attempts by the competition to modify the […]
Western Australia hits the Web 2.0 news stage: introducing PerthNorg
Great news from the Western side of Australia: PerthNorg from Bronwen Clune, who I had the privilege of meeting a couple of months back at a Perth blog meetup. Question though is how to describe the site. It’s sort of Digg meets Newsvine..but in a one newspaper state I can only hope to god it […]
Digg profiles for sale…hmmm
Techcrunch reports that a Top 100 Digg profile is up for sale on eBay here…current bidding at the time of writing was $305USD with 6 1/2 days left on the auction. So much for all those people who said that these profiles and position weren’t worth diddly squat..question is though, if you buy the profile […]
Weekend Microsoft fun
The commentator says it all: the first part of Recognition is Rec…as in trainreck :-)….
Mike Arrington joins Bastard of the Blogs
I honestly like Mike Arrington, but some of his more recent behaviour, in particular the dummy spit in relation to Nick Carr, sort of means this honour is probably well deserved: For from Those Bastards here. Tags: Mike Arrington
Will Cyworld take the English speaking world by storm
If you haven’t heard of Cyworld yet, it’s basically the South Korean version of MySpace, sort of Blogging come social networking (although I’d note it’s more blog like that MySpace)…and it’s come to America with the launch of an English speaking version. GigaOM has more, but off the top of my head from the days […]
If Chris Pirillo was female, wouldn’t this be porn
Chris Pirillo has launched Rent My Chest 2.0 (via Blogebrity), but I ask this serious question: if Chris was female wouldn’t this be porn, after all, Chris has a reasonable set of man boobs here, indeed, I think his…features..are bigger than Keira Knightley’s (sorry Chris, but I’ve got to say, shame about the fez…), although […]
comScore, Techcrunch ignore Skype as an IM
Interesting post over at Techcrunch today on the latest IM usage figures…but both the figures from comScore, and Techcrunch themselves totally ignore one IM client: and that’s Skype. I use Skype as my IM client, and so do most people I know. Why, well first and foremost everyone actually uses their real names: makes it […]
Blogebrity hits the spot
Saw this story at Techcrunch the other day and it did register as being odd, but the Blogebrity team sum it up well…and BTW, it’s great to see Blogebrity back and firing regularly as well…now if only they’d expand their coverage a little bit wider… TechCrunch Bubblewatch: STD Edition Time to play everyone’s favorite Web […]
Arrrrrrrrr, its another odious R Web 2.0 name, this time from Odeo
Twttr, according to TechCrunch, is a Web 2.0 app from Odeo that allows you to mass spam people via mobile phone txt, and then let everyone read what you sendspam people’s mobiles with online, sort of like group sex in front of a web cam for txt, but although I don’t suggest for one minute […]
MT isn’t going to die, you’re just not going to see the MT brand as much
Interesting discussion over at The Blog Herald on the demise of MT compared to WordPress, and although the entire world knows I’m a massive WordPress fan these days, I’ve got to say that both Scrivs and Matt are wrong on this, wrong in that MT isn’t going to go away, indeed I’d argue that MT […]
Yahoo, Microsoft tie message knot
Good news on the IM front…now if only they could get together with eBay and link in to Skype as well, from the BBC: Users of the Yahoo and Microsoft instant messaging programs can now contact each other directly. The two firms have released software that ties the two networks into a huge community of […]
News Corp now owns the most visited website in the US
Amazing figures from Hitwise, MySpace is now the mosted visited website in the United States….and people said it was a bad investment, got to give Rupert Murdoch credit, he certainly knows a good investment when he sees it. Tags: MySpace