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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.
Wait, What…Marni Cordell Gets It Now…Well, A Little Bit Anyway
From the exit post on New Matilda: Looking to the experience of media start-ups in the US and the UK, we have realised that the days of the single-revenue media outlet are over. Nowadays, small outlets are finding new ways to fund their work through what Texas Tribune founder John Thornton calls “revenue promiscuity”: “you […]
The Inquisitr Celebrates Its 2nd Birthday With New Traffic Highs
Another birthday passed May 5 for The Inquisitr, and we did the month in style with new traffic highs. The challenge ahead is to get the uniques up now; we’ve finally got the page views per visit up to where is should be, but its the extra uniques that drive the ad revenue. Not bad […]
Questioning Public Internet Stats
Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! So our traffic has finally gone through a growth spurt, headed primarily by a big jump in pages per visitor after installing Facebook commenting (see graph above.) But the jump isn’t reflected in any of our public stats, including Quantcast via direct tracking. Note that our internal stats are backed by […]
I Want An Internet Filter For Stupid People
The Age: ‘Rape simulator’ game goes viral amid calls for censorship Attempts to ban a deplorable “rape simulator” video game have only caused it to spread virally across the internet, leading to calls for sites hosting the game to be blocked by internet censors. Karen Willis, executive officer of the NSW Rape Crisis Centre, said […]
For Those That Came Before, An Exit Day
Inquisitr: Gothamist Blog Network Acquired For $5-$6 Million I don’t know Jake much at all, although I’m pretty sure we swapped some emails in the early days. I covered the network in the Blog Herald days a fair few times, well, my memory is backed by Google as well here. It’s just great to see […]
It Just Keeps Getting Worse
Inquisitr: Australian Government Body Goes After Encyclopedia Dramatica In Epic Waste Of Taxpayer Dollars The creeping fascism just keeps getting worse. I mean what sort of crusader Government attempts to take legal action over a site that it has ZERO jurisdiction over? And crusader is the right term. This is a moral crusade by a […]
After The Storm, Media Rap Up
So it bucketed down Golf balls here in Melbourne Saturday…well, it did where I lived, some media are reporting hail as big as lemons. One of the few times I’ve ever been scared in weather (other times nearly exclusively on aircraft.) I actually pulled Declan away from the windows because I was scared that the […]
Inquisitr Changes
Just a short admin note for The Inquisitr: we’ve recently terminated one of our syndication deals. I won’t go into the details, however I wish the company involved future success, and although the product wasn’t working for us, I still like what this company does as a competitor to AP, so I’ll still be cheering […]
Rudd lies on filter again
Via The Age Rudd also defended the government’s proposed internet filter, which is designed to block child pornography, terrorist material and other extreme and offensive information, saying it was in line with how movies and videos were censored. Except it’s not, is it Kevin Rudd, because you can view/ buy R and X rated movies. […]
The Dark Days Of Fascism Are Upon Us
It’s one thing to introduce Internet censorship in Australia. It’s Nazi like at the basics. But in the last few days the media, led by News Corp is pushing this country into the dark days of fascism. The target is Facebook, as I wrote yesterday. But the scope continues to get darker. Let me say […]
ABC Fucks Up Web Terminology Again
And this time it doesn’t come from someone called Tony Hate site targets Trinity’s accused killer Queensland police are monitoring a social networking site set up to vilify a man charged with the murder of eight-year-old Trinity Bates from Bundaberg. Except it’s not a social networking site that has been set up, it’s a Facebook […]
If You Wan’t To Know The Relevance Of b5media Today…
Hit Google News. Hit Google Blog Search. Over 50 bloggers were fired from what was once the third largest blog network, a network that has taken $8m in funding, and hardly anyone wrote about it. They’ve also launched a new site today. The interwebs are silent. A couple of people who did write about it […]
The end of b5media
Mass Firings At b5media: Entire Entertainment Network Shut I’m not happy about it. I’ve settled my differences with the other founders (well, the actual founders, not the interloper), and although there is the odd person who has been fired today I’m happy about, mostly I find the news sad. The thing is though: b5media is […]
Why Can’t ABC Journos Get Simple Web Descriptions Right?
Or maybe it’s just ABC Journalists with the first name of Tony? On Q&A last week (the school children vs the PM episode) Tony Jones fumbled the name of iiNet, and suggested that people had been downloading pirated movies from “iiNet’s website.” The biggest copyright case in Australia in years, and he doesn’t understand that […]
Back In The Top 10 Australian Startups
When Kim Heras moved the Top 100 Australian startups to Younoodle, we completely disappeared, not helped by the fact that we didn’t even have a Younoodle listing. New year and finally we’re back in the Top 10.
LOL: We’re Apparently a Scrapper Site
There’s been lots of lulz following my reply to Media140 a couple of weeks back, but the best came from one person who claims that The Inquisitr is a scrapper site who copies and pastes content that isn’t our own. Let me say up front that roughly 20-30% of our content (sometimes less) is most […]
Did I mention I like the New Technorati?
And not only because they’re selling more of our ads at late 🙂 Technorati Top 100: 50-75.
Inquisitr case study on Problogger
Duncan Riley of The Inquisitr Shares a Popular Post Case Study The questions were set, so the responses to fit the questions. None the less, doing a Q & A like that forces you to think about what you did right and wrong. I actually enjoy it, and some might actually find value in what […]
Blue moon and praise for Conroy
Epic Win: Australian Government to force wholesale separation of Telstra This is so much win. It’s win x 1000. I don’t believe I’ve been more excited about a Government decision for a very long time. Did I say win already? Previous notes January 2009 Structural separation, as I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ve always argued is the only solution. Telstra […]
Quest to 100
June 22 was a blip, but Technorati has sorted it out ever since, at least we’ve been steady for over a week. Quest to 100.