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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.
Andrew Baron: Retarded or Marketing Genius?
CNet reports that Andrew Baron has pulled the auction for his Twitter account. It was a clever little publicity stunt from day one, and credit to Andrew on it, but the following sounds severely retarded: Essentially, he said, a fellow Twitterer wrote him suggesting that the people who were bidding the eBay auction well into […]
YouTube Partner Program Comes To Australia, WTF With The MSM?
Good news: YouTube’s partner program is now available in Australia, Japan and Ireland. I’ve applied, no idea if I’ll qualify. Now for the WTF: I had Nova on in the car (wife had been in the car, otherwise it would have been on ABC Local Radio) and their sad excuse for a news came on […]
Stereotypes and the Blogosphere
This weekends A-list navel gazing exercise is a subject (ironically) that has been debated before: that the blogosphere provides little original content and that most blogs don’t provide a value add in terms of analysis. It’s true…and it’s not true. It’s true if you only follow techmeme and a specific number of blogs, for example […]
2Web Crew Turns 21
2Web Crew 21 is now live. And yes, I get questioned about this weeks shit storm, and no, I failed to use the c word once 🙂
Twitter AFL Footy Comp
Looking for a Footy tipping comp where you can compete with ppl like you? Join here. I’m a RL man by birth, but one thing I picked up from my nearly 10 years in Western Australia was footy tipping. Every job I had there had a Footy Tipping comp. It’s like religion, and it’s expected […]
FriendFeed = More Hyped Yawn
So I started another bush fire, at least among the growing list of self important so-called A listers who would happily crucify anyone who dare question their favorite startup of the minute. I say A-List somewhat lightly, because the guy who’s come after me is someone who’s called Louis Gray. I’ve been blogging a bloody […]
Spending Time With Your Family Makes You a Slacker According to Scoble. Scoble Can Get Fucked
language warning Following on from my post on TechCrunch calling out Jason “penny pincher” Calacanis for his call that people who seek balance in their lives should be fired, Robert “I’ve never done a startup of my own in my life” Scoble responds with this bullshit: Calacanis is right: startups can?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t afford?Ǭ†slackers Jason Calacanis has […]
While Our Government Drags Its Feet on 24mbs, Japan….
…launches an experimental satellite that will provide internet speeds upto 1.2gb/s (1200mb/s) Via CNN Japan launched a rocket Saturday carrying a satellite that will test new technology that promises to deliver “super high-speed Internet” service to homes and businesses around the world. If the technology proves successful, subscribers with small dishes will connect to the […]
Data Portability and Me
I was asked to put this together by Brisbane based Chris Saad, head of the Data Portability Work Group. Short story I had to answer some questions and say at the end that I support Data Portability. From what I can gather Chris is asking folks with a reasonable profile to record support videos for […]
2Web Crew 14
The 3rd come back show of the 2web crew can be found here. Our best show since we resurrected it at the beginning of the year. Great conversation, and I had to cut it off before it went over the hour.
Macworld Keynote 2008
You can see my live blogging record here, or the photo’s I’ve uploaded so far on Flickr here. Obviously the announcements weren’t as great as last year, but at least this time I was in the audience watching it live.
On The Pod #17: Mick Liubinskas
Mick Liubinskas joins me for On The Pod #17 as we talk Forums 2.0 (link) Also you can subscribe to On The Pod in iTunes by clicking here. On last bleg, if you’re feeling generous you can vote for On The Pod in the Performancing Awards here. Voting closes 10 January US time. I’m still […]
The Night Before Christmas In The Valley
Yes, I should be finding serious work to do, but there’s nothing more fun than bastardising something traditional, here’s my effort for 2007 Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the Valley Not a startup was stirring, no deals in back alleys The business plans were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes […]
Upgrading an iPhone From 1.02 to 1.1.2
Unlike the long northern autumn of discontent as unsuspecting iPhone customers bricked their unlocked iPhones by updating to iPhone OS release 1.1.1, I was smart enough to turn off the auto-update feature in iTunes, and my iPhone has never skipped a beat, running 1.0.2 unlocked using the Optus network. There’s not a lot of changes […]
If You’re Into Online Marketing, Visit Gooruze
I think I may have mentioned this here before, but I’m involved (as a contributor, or “founding Gooruze”) with a great online marketing site called Gooruze run by Vibe Capital (from WA’s glamour couple Rachel and Clay Cook). It’s a social networking come sharing site where you can contribute or read about online marketing advice […]
Crunchies Are A Good Idea
TechCrunch, VentureBeat, GigaOm and another site are getting together for the Crunchies, a Web 2.0 best of annual awards. Nice idea. Full details here. (disclosure: I write for TechCrunch)
I’ve Caught the Second Life Bug Again
I blame Cameron Reilly! I’ve been spending more and more time in Second Life lately, mostly for researching TechCrunch posts (see coverage here) and then I noticed Cam had set up a HQ for The Podcast Network. I met up with Cam Friday night (still in Brisbane for the Australian Blogging Conference, the Chifley had […]
Fairfax Has a SEO Team
This weeks SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday is an interview with Lucas Ng, who does in house SEO for Fairfax Digital. Cool in some respects that Australian online players are now employing SEO talent to maximize their search engine rankings and position. Aside from the cliches (f*ck Rand, have you never met an Australian before?!?! do you […]
Andrew Keen Is a Twit
I’m being polite tonight, Twit is far too nice. What I don’t get is how he figures we should be fed news by “impartial journalists” when there is no such thing as an impartial journalist, in the same way there is no such thing as Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. Typical of the MSM […]
Australian Blogging Conference Is Back On: Sep 28 in Brisbane
Got an email from Peter Black this morning: the Australian Blogging Conference is back on. Venue is QUT Brisbane September 28. Details here. Format is a Dave Winer style unconference. I haven’t booked a flight yet but I’ve already said yes to attending, I’m certainly not going to miss something I’ve been advocating for over the last […]