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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.
BloggerCon Australia: I’m excited!
Just read this at Scripting News. Red Barren is in charge of organising a BloggerCon in Australia. For those who were readers of The Blog Herald I’ve been trying to do this for years. I’ve got about 50 ppl in the email list who have shown interest in coming. If you haven’t previously registered interest […]
Yep, I’m looking at doing a meme site
blogging.wurk.net does some detective work and tell’s me that I should stop using my registered business name to register for other services. I won’t say what it is, but it involves Web 2.0, it’s close to home, and I’ve written about the idea at The Blog Herald before.
Google testing mega ads and pixel ads
This has got to have a big WTF on it. According to Adotas, Google is testing 2560 x 1920 ads and 1×1 pixel ads. Pretty much, great big mother you know what ads, and itsy bitsy, teeny weeny pixel ads ala the Million Dollar Homepage. If it’s true, now I’ve seen everything 🙂
Technorati isn’t tracking Myspace, if they are they totally suck
Aaron writes at Technosailor that he believes that Technorati is now tracking MySpace. I really don’t think they are, because if they are they really suck it at. Consider the numbers. 61 million odd users. Technorati tracks less blogs than the total number of blogs in China. My understanding is that MySpace blogs can’t be […]
Bubble, what bubble, I mean, $2b for a website….WTF?
Facebook is chasing $2b (USD) for their site, having knocked back $750 million. Now it’s in the top 100 at Alexa, which equals premium site, but $2b for an online property. It’s not even 1999 again….it’s a whole lot more at this. price.
2web podcast number 4
If you are interested in Web 2.0, podcasting, and start ups, check out the latest 2web podcast. I’m quite…well….strong in it. 🙂 Update: I’ve just listened to it and I’d think it’s our best podcast to date 🙂 If you’ve got an iPod or computer for that matter, have a listen!
Chris Messina quits Flock
To me Flock is the poster child for the bad side of Web 2.0, a solution without a problem. Chris Messina says he’s leaving because basically he doesn’t like working with lots of people, or something he describes as (and I kid you not on this) the “vapor sublimation process”. Talking like this I’ve got […]
OMG! Dave Brubeck has a MySpace site! Being different in blogging
Dave Brubeck at MySpace. You can even listen to one of the greatest peices of music EVER WRITTEN. Blue Rondo a la Turk. I couldn’t help but draw a Darren style tangent though. Is 100 years time, when the people of the future look back at the music on the 20th century, they’ll remember few […]
del.icio.us with Skippy thrown in?
Yaro Starak is now the patron for a new Web 2.0 Australian style del.icio.us site: AustralianBlogs.com.au. It will be interesting to see what sort of market there is given the power of exisiting sites such as del.icio.us itself and others like Digg. It also might get Ben to get a move along and launch Gnoos […]
2web crew Podcast No. 2
This was good fun, and interesting as well. I could have talked about this stuff for hours.
Joining the 2Web crew, or why I should keep up with email
It’s not been announced publicly, but I’ve joined the 2web crew. Nik emailed me last week with an invite and it got totally buried in amongst the 5 million other emails. For those of you interested: 2web is a group of Australian bloggers and entrepreneurs who are passionate about web 2.0. What we all have […]
Diggscape with JCal at the helm?
Is Jason Calacanis to leave the helm of Weblogs Inc., to head up a Web 2.0 version of Netscape that looks and smells like Digg? Paid Content seems to think so: The storied Netscape.com will be revived again by AOL, and will relaunch soon as a Digg-like user-driven news/aggregation site with Jason Calacanis at the […]