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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.
Lost Message
Alex Scoble today proved my point in raising the issue of civility on FriendFeed. For the record, I didn’t say Alex was stupid, I said his hate the rich meme was (and scary, weird and far to the left…which it is), other than that he’s been a great member of FriendFeed and I’ve enjoyed following […]
Blog commenting: I guess I’m wired differently
Darren Rowse at Problogger has a great post up today where he asked “10 Prolific Bloggers” to share advice on how they make their blogs more conversational, although the question sent via email read “How do you foster conversation on your blog?” 9 out 10 bloggers talked about tricks in posts, such as being controversial, […]
A digital divide of usability
So I told my mother on the weekend to try Google Chrome after life long Internet Explorer die-hards and Firefox haters like Steve Hodson tell me that they’re sold and have switched for life. My mother still uses IE and refuses to use Firefox, no matter how many times I’ve tried to convince her otherwise, […]
Startup Camp coming to Melbourne
Sign up here. This was run in Sydney recently, and looks like a great event. Dates are 3-5 October.
The Inquisitr at 4 months
September 5 marked the 4 month mark for The Inquisitr, and although I’m a little late with this post, some updated figures and observations. We closed August with 420,000 page views, and this is before I noticed that Google Analytics was under-counting, likely due to page load times. Based on the top leaderboard spot, the […]
For love or money
I’ve already been accused of drinking the kool aid this week at Gnomedex, and there might just be an ounce of truth in that, but I really don’t care. In the last year and a half I’ve attended what many would consider to be among the biggest tech events on the planet (having done both […]
Google Street View blurs my letterbox
Google Australia has launched Google Street View locally (via Simon Goudie). Privacy issues perhaps, but letter boxes have all been blurred out. Here’s our house in Google Street View: Here’s a close up of the letter box Interestingly, they’ve really gone all out in the coverage of Street View. My old house complete with sales […]
Techmeme fails the tech community again
I don’t know why I still care. I guess that some small part of me still believes that perhaps Gabe is interested in impartial news and tracking the big stories as opposed to just TechCrunch. However tonight (my time) proves once again how Techmeme is failing the tech community. As I write this, at 9pm […]
Seesmic and video
I couple of months back I started duncanriley.tv, my experiment in video. I got some great advice from folks like Chris Pirillo, then ignored most of it and started doing stuff. It was great fun, and some of the videos received thousands of views on Youtube. Most didn’t, but using Tubemogul most hit low to […]
Identi.ca proves me wrong, and I’m happy about it
The big buzz today is around Indenti.ca, a new open source, and open platform microblogging service. That the code is open source is great in itself, but the biggest breakthrough is support for the new OpenMicroBlogging standard, which means that in theory, anyone could host the script and each service would talk to each other, […]
Guest Posting on Mashable
Just a quick shout out to Pete Cashmore with thanks for giving me the opportunity to guest post on occasion on Mashable. My first post is up today, covering Melbourne based Copper Project from Element Software. If you like, think of this as my community service (I’m not being paid). I’m passionate about Australian startups […]
Anyone have any advice on Virtual Assistants?
A bit of a bleg: I’ve been looking at hiring a virtual assistant. It’s Sunday as I write this and there are over 200 unread emails in my inbox, and that’s with over 50 rules putting most emails into other folders, of which there is thousands of unread emails.What I’m looking at is someone to […]
The Inquisitr By The Numbers
Today marks 1 month since The Inquisitr launched. I was going to write something over on the site about the 1 month mark but the last time I wrote a post about the site people used OutBrain to rate it poorly, besides, I don’t do self indulgent well anyway…well my personal blog aside 🙂 Having […]
JustAddMe: Simple Sidebar List
JustAddMe offers a simple sidebar widget with links to social networks. My only gripe is that the list is a little limited, but please feel free to add me as above. Also FriendFeed here If anyone knows of a deeper alternative leave a comment. I’m lazy so I like the idea 🙂
Twitter!
This post needs to be at the top of Techmeme. That is all.
Playing With Animato
Twitter Fail Macworld Keynote (my pics)
So I Left TechCrunch Today
More here. Some really nice words from Michael. The thing that’s surprised me about this is it didn’t leak in a month. Probably helps that I didn’t tell all but a few people, but it’s cool knowing that in the age of uber-gossip it never leaked. The video below covers more (serious NSFW language warning…I […]
Please Bring Back Full Feeds At The Blog Herald
I’ve never once tried to interfere with my old site, The Blog Herald. I sold it and that was the end of the matter. It did well under Matt Craven and the folks who bought it from me, but a year later Splashpress bought it and turned it into a poor mans Problogger with little […]
Arrington in Time Top 100
This is staggering. Congrats to Michael on a position well deserved. I cant remember if a blogger has ever made the list before, maybe Drudge but he’s never counted himself as a blogger. It’s perhaps a watershed moment that a Blogger can be counted in the Top 100 most influential people in the world, next […]
Note to Erick, This is how you deal with overload
Re: this, Rage against the machine 🙂 On a more serious note, simple rules: Twitter for Breaking, Goog Reader for reading, use aggregators like Techmeme and others to pick up the stuff you miss.?Ǭ† Now if only I could sort email….but shhhhh, we wont mention that dirty word today.