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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.
bebo raises $15m
Social Networking remains very, very hot. Just a day after the E-Commerce Times ran this story about kiddies starting to turn away from MySpace because it’s become a bit to mainstream, and that they are moving to sites such as bebo, Paid Content reports that bebo has just raised $15 million in VC from Benchmark […]
Dave Winer gets it right on Feedburner
Wise words from the old man of blogging: How to compete with FeedBurner….First, I’d either do a deal with a registrar, become a registrar, or merge or partner with one. It’s absolutely essential that the user own the domain that their feed is hosted at, so that, in case of emergency, they can switch to […]
Feedpass debate rages
Lots of debate emerging over the new feed service “feedpass“, a new service that allows your feed to have essentially it’s own multi-faceted feed subscription page, mainly because they allow you to create pages for blogs you don’t own, and earn revenue off it. I won’t get into the whole copyright/ theft issue some are […]
Give me green, lots of green…..
Looks like Mike Arrington got into a whole pile of trouble whilst I was away after shafting his web designer. Lot of coverage here, here, here, here and here. Personally I don’t particularly dislike the design, the layout itself isn’t too bad, although I’m not a huge fan of some of the whitespace, fonts and […]
ADSDAQ for blogging?
The 360 reports on a proposal to form essentially a commodities style market for advertising in the United States: A consortium of some of the biggest advertisers in the United States has plans to move the ad industry out the era of the cattle exchange and into the internet age. They’re looking for someone to […]
The Seth Godin bubble is about to burst
Every one raves about Seth Godin. Personally, I’ve always thought the hype was way out of control, and as much as a lot of what he says makes sense, I’ve always thought most of it was common sense as opposed to anything ground breaking, and perhaps very well articulated, but nothing really more than this. […]
Webby Awards don’t really reflect the web anymore
The winners of the 2006 Webby Awards have been announced, and it appears as though the blogosphere doesn’t exist….but of course it does, but bloggers aren’t really up for the $500 USD entry fee, and hence we get the usual corporate sites winning awards, and Arianna Huffington’s Huffington Post (not really representative of the blogosphere […]
A F*cking Australian MySpace
So where the bloody hell would you start the first country based version of MySpace, well according to Lee’s Blog: MySpace Australia. According to News Corp: The Australian divisions of multinational companies such as Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson and Toyota are expected to be approached as they have advertised on the […]
Still thing Technorati tracks the entire blogosphere?
China to have 60 million bloggers by end of 2006 (reuters) China is the world’s second-largest Internet market after the United States with more than 110 million users. A survey by Chinese search engine Baidu.com put the current number of blog, or Web log, sites at 36.82 million which are kept by 16 million people, […]
Canvas, just what the WP doctor ordered
Notice this great software via Aaron’s new blog, Canvas. It basically allows you to set up your WordPress blog from within WordPress, everything from layout to colours, without needing to touch any code. But it’s not a basic editor, we are talking full customisation here. Really great, easy to use stuff. I haven’t given it […]
More on Blogdesk from Johannes Oppermann
I’ve been using Blogdesk for a couple of days now, and for once in my life I can actually feel my blogging productivity increase, mainly because I can quickly copy, cut and edit an image into any blog post, to any of my blogs, along with what I’ve got to say on the story. I […]
Sphere, just another blog search engine.
All the blogosphere is buzzing about Sphere, the latest kid on the blog search engine block. Maybe I’ve become sceptical again, but I played with it for a while, its just another blog search engine, and I honestly don’t think it’s quite at the Technorati level yet. Pretty to look at, for sure, but outside […]
Latest 2web podcast with Markus Frind of Plenty of Fish
Despite the haze of the flu drugs I’ve started taking, and having my 3 year old running around the house with the same flu (isn’t it wonderful how your children love to share) I managed to participate in an interesting podcast this morning at 2web crew where Richard Giles and I interviewed Markus Frind, the […]
Blog tools at Blog Desk
Darrens got a great list of Blog Tools over at Problogger at the moment, including a list of blog editing software. One struck my eye as being worthy of download: Why did Blogdesk stand out you might ask. I’ll tell you why. The image. Yep, the image directly above this text! It comes with a […]
What’s a blog and forum worth?
I sold two sites today. Weblog Empire for $1k USD and Coupon Weblog.com for $250. It took one and a half hours. Scary. Scary in that they could have been worth easily more. Scary in that even relatively non maintained sites can be worth so much. I’ve still got a long list of fun/ trial/ […]
Nick Denton, taking the community out of Web 2.0
I was just reading Valleywag and it hit me: Nick Denton is taking the community out of Web 2.0. Why? easy: closed comments. This whole you’ve got to apply and be approved to be a commenter on his sites….well it sucks. Sure, we all know the difficulties of managing comments and the risks open comments […]
Humour on Scriptlance
I’m not sure how long this listing will last….but I’ve got to love the response: Project: Blog commenter ID: 1145900161 Status: Open Budget: N/A Created: 4/24/2006 at 13:36 EST Bidding Ends: 5/1/2006 at 13:36 EST (6 days left) Project Creator: oxley1165 Rating: (No Feedback Yet) Description: I would like a program created which will post […]
Are 25-40 year old parents leading the Web 2.0 revolution?
Just an idle thought. A lot of people I’m talking to online and offline lately involved in Web 2.0 (including some cutting edge blogging stuff) are 25-40 and have young kids. Am I falling into the trap I was always afraid of when I wrote The Blog Herald where I’ve become insular and naturally refined […]
Evangalising Australian blogging and Web 2.0: the Perth Blog Meetup
Having finally got through a backlog of work I wanted to post about my trip to Perth the Wednesday night just gone, and the great people I met at the Perth Blog Meetup. Worst thing, I didn’t take notes so I’m going to forget some names, but if I have missed you, apologies in advance. […]
Digging a bloody great big hole.
Digg is in strife. Big time. Despite some unfortunate comments from Jason Calacanis which I think were totally unhelpful, For those of you who haven’t been following the whole thing, I’ll try to surmise it (some parts may be missed, comment if I need to add anything). 1. Jacob Gower (good bloke by the way) […]