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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.
Chartreuse is Back
The second post in roughly 24 hours from Prince Campbell. I didn’t post on the first one because I’ve see the stray post before. Chartreuse is back in the house and welcomed from me. Lets hope the issues of last year are left behind and we see some great blogging once again. Prince is a great bloke who I had […]
Making The MT Switch
I’m doing some research on switching back to MovableType, in part so I can support the MT Open Source initiative. WordPress isn’t what it use to be, both from a development and security perspective, as well as having a leadership that seems more focused on commercial interests than the open source side. If anyone has […]
WA Web Awards Finalists Announced
See here. Finalists are the top 3 in each category. For a State that is so remote from the rest of the world there’s an impressive lineup of sites. The winners will be announced at the Duxton, Perth, August 17. And incase I’ve failed to mention it previously: I was a judge for the awards. […]
Facebook Friends
I’ve decided that the one thing I don’t like about Facebook is exerting effort for a small group of people; basically I don’t get why Facebook pages should be closed to all bar friends. It’s not that I dislike my Facebook friends; I appreciate every one of them, it’s just that in a society that […]
Anyone Getting MyBlogLog Spam?
I don’t even use MyBlogLog anymore, and yet I keep getting spam emails from MyBlogLog users; advertising networks, Nigerian style scams etc. Am I alone? I probably shouldn’t complain and just switch off the emails and resign my MyBlogLog membership properly..but I thought I’d check. Looks like Yahoo ownership still hasn’t improved things.
Matt Mullenweg: The Next (Old) Mena Trott?
All that is old is new again. I’ve been following in passing the debate over sponsored WordPress themes over the last week or so (Jacob Gower has a good summary, Matt Mullenweg’s post here) and I can’t help but shake my head. As Jacob notes the folks at WordPress and other sites are entitled to […]
Podcast Coming Soon
For all 5 people who will probably listen, I’m another step forward to a podcast again, after a couple of previously failed attempts at the Blog Herald, then a TPN podcast that never got off the ground as I got caught up running a previous company. I’ve got the Mic, I’ve got Garage Band and I’ve […]
Google Blog Maximises The Cringe
Bloggin’ down under: the official Google Blog. OMFG. This post followed the Postini announcement. Could the cliche’s be any thicker and the content more curdling. It’s hard enough having Americans tell you how much they love your accent and thinking that you’ve got a bloody great big knife in your pocket without having the worlds […]
Add Me as a Friend on Pownce
The more friends and comments I’m getting, the more I’m liking Pownce…which is just as well, I was prepared to rip it to shreds at first. Dave Winer’s Twittergraming (audio twitters) will work great in Pownce, and probably more importantly they’ll work natively as well. http://pownce.com/duncanriley Unlike Twitter where I was getting swamped with requests […]
ThreadWatch Closing
I actually read this yesterday (my time) but never got around to posting. It’s sad. ThreadWatch is the site that got me interested in SEO and a site through which I made a number of good contacts over the years. I don’t want to diss Aaron, but the site has never been the same since Nick […]
Embracing Facebook
The more I use Facebook, the more I’m convinced that in 12-18 months Facebook will slay MySpace. Anyhow, I’ve now switched to bookmarking via Facebook. I love Bluedot but having accounts all over the place seems a bit daft, and the whole Facebook as a Platform thing is going to make this even more so. […]
Pandora Go Away
Why do Pandora keep sending me emails telling me how wonderful they are when I’m blocked from using the site? I wasn’t blocked at first when I first heard the news that Pandora was blocking non-US users, but they’ve since implemented geo-blocking and now I can’t.
Microsoft Really Can Innovate
Microsoft Surface. It sort of reminds me a little bit of the old look down Pac Man arcade machines circa 1982 but it’s a lot more. The ability to recognise objects is unique and although I can’t see this being in every home (although it would make a cool coffee table) the retail possibilities are […]
5inch: pretty CDs
Think Cafepress for blank CDs and DVDs: 5inch. Pretty. No idea why people would want piles of blank CDs’ with pretty prints on them, but it’s still pretty none the less.
Twitter down again
For the LOVE OF GOD! Will Twitter ever be stable? it’s not letting me in again. GRRRRRRRRR. As soon as the US East Coast gets up, down goes Twitter.
Vale Technorati
Vale Technorati. The much loved blog search engine is no more, reborn as…well….something that isn’t a blog search engine any more. Steve Rubel suggests that Google killed Technorati but I’m sure he’s mixing this up with the Ask $100m algorithm campaign. The only one going to get killed there is Crispin, Porter + Bogusky when […]
Wallstrip/ CBS buy confirmed
Looks like the post I made on TechCrunch March 13 about CBS acquiring Wallstrip is confirmed. Thanks to my “source close to the deal” for giving me a heads up on it, you know who you are but would like to thank you none the less. Dollars aren’t publicly confirmed at this stage but given […]
Supermarket 2.0
via Graywolf on Jaiku, very clever 🙂
Joined Jaiku
Enough is enough with Twitter. If you’re on Jaiku let me know http://duncanriley.jaiku.com Hopefully will see a lot of my Twitter contacts appear shortly, still love the idea and the conversation, but I can’t handle Twitter’s downtime.
Bugs in Google Reader?
I made the switch from Bloglines to Google Reader a while back, but I’m noticing a couple of things that are starting to become annoying. First is slowness in listing new posts. I notice it most with my own posts on various sites, I’ll post and it won’t appear in Google Reader for 2-3 hours, […]