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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.
Techmeme quirk
Shot taken today. Techmeme pointing to a February post from Tim O’Reilly. Coincidence that I linked to it at TechCrunch the same time that a couple of others did. Was third highest story until magically disappearing: I sense the hand of human intervention.
Mig33 lands $10M
Red Herring reported Friday that Mig33, a company originally based in Perth(Western Australia) but now on the West Coast took $10m in funding Accel Partners and RedPoint Ventures with Technology Venture Partners in for good measure. Mig33 offers mobile phone users voice over Internet Protocol, instant messaging, SMS-based text messaging, and social-networking services. Mig33 rolls […]
You cant win them all
New review up at TechCrunch covering Twitbin. Mixed results in terms of comments, some people love it, some think it shouldn’t have been reviewed. I’m a conviction writer, if I write about something I’ll do so for two reasons: 1. because it’s topical, and in the case of TechCrunch because it’s in the scope of […]
Digg uprising leading world news?
Top of the front page at News.com.au, Australia’s leading News site, being the combined homepage for all of News Corp’s Australian Newspapers: Interesting that Digg becomes the No. 1 story in a world full of wars, death and destruction. No front page coverage from the SMH or ABC at this stage.
The Digg Revolt of 2007: a renaissance in listening to users
Something amazing happened today on Digg. After a long time ignoring the complaints of users, indeed even alienating many top contributors, the folks running Digg, in particular Kevin Rose actually listened, and responded. True, it was only after banning users and stories about the HD DVD key that the decision was made, but it’s still […]
Google on Oprah
Via SEOBlackHat:
No Twitter?
For at least the last 3 hours:
Wikipedia: the hypocrisy just keeps on growing
Nik Cubrilovic has the details @ TechCrunch: short version, despite its obsession with being non-commercial, and more recently punishing good webmasters everywhere by putting nofollow tags on the end of outgoing links, it looks like Jimbo Wales isn’t nofollowing links to his for profit Wikia sites. I’m not sure what the total wash up is […]
If talk about nothing is nothing, does it become nothing itself?
Tris Hussey on some folk waking up today and discovering what I’ve been saying for 6-9 months: we’ve reached a peak in blog growth, at least in the Western World, although oddly enough they’re calling it a plateau. Yawn. Technorati now reckons there is only 15.5 million active blogs. BS. Double BS even. Technorati has […]
Twitter dumps Australia
Via Ben Barren, Twitter is no longer supporting SMS in Australia. They’ve since updated the original post to say: “To clarify, we’re getting a new access number for Australia?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùas soon as we get the number, sms service will be back in action. We’re working on it right now and it’s a high priority.” But 99 […]
Top 100 Australian Blogs: feeds via OPML update
A quick update on the original list which can still be downloaded by clicking here. Meg has run an update to the list + I’ve now got a feed for MadBull’s Annoyances. New blogs include: http://infosthetics.com/ http://www.skeptics.com.au/ http://andrewlanderyou.blogspot.com/ http://www.business2.com.au/ http://www.thinkprospect.com.au/blog/ http://nickcowie.com http://www.cantcoachthat.com/ http://the-riotact.com http://altnews.com.au/drop/ I’ve updated the original list to include all these blogs, so […]
The Top 100 Australian Blogs: feeds via OPML
Following on from Meg’s great Top 100 Australian Blogs list, my quest to become the Dave Winer of Australian blogging continues, I’m occasionally grumpy, I’m getting older by the day, I haven’t got the beard yet…I guess I can work on it….but on a more serious note, let me present The Top 100 Australian Blogs: […]
The Simpsons meets Google
Compliments of Search Engine Land, The Simpsons meet Google: Full clip as follows:
Defamer/ Gizmodo Australia launch
The Australian licensed versions of the Gawker Media blogs, Defamer and Gizmodo have launched. First thoughts: I’ll probably reserve judgment in full for now, to early to make a call on them properly, but naturally a couple of things: 1. They didn’t take lessons from Nick Denton when it comes to launching. Defamer has 4 […]
Join the Statsaholic petition
If you’re looking for a good Web 2.0 cause to support, visit Mashable and sign the petition against Amazon’s decision to sue Statsaholic (previously Alexaholic). Lets see: Amazon opens its data saying “use it, please”. Someone does, they get popular, Amazon steals the best bits for Alexa, then sues the people who did nothing more […]
How long to someone games MySpace News
Loren has the details on how you can submit stories to the newly launched MySpace News. Top story there currently has two votes, which begs the question: how long until someone starts gaming it? indeed, a couple of MySpace accounts would do it, and you can pick them up in bunches of 100-1000 cheaply at […]
Michael Arrington, another Desktop Tower Defense addict
Arrington is hooked to. Good on him, because it’s a ripper of a game, if you haven’t played yet, click here.
Australia maintains lead in Firefox usage
Latest Firefox usage stats have Oceania, of which Australia would make up maybe 80%, as the leading region world wide for Firefox usage, at 24.8%. no break down of the figures however, so no idea what Australia alone is, but that’s still a very, very nice figure.
Looking for some Australian blogs
Now I’m hooked on Google reader, I’ve started subscribing to more and more Australian blogs…what I’d really like to have is a dedicated “Australian Blogs” category, but so far the pickings are pretty slim. I’ve got most of the 2web guys in my feeds, and others I’ve met along the way (in person), but if […]
In support of advertiser supported themes
Matt Mullenweg has come out against advertiser supported themes for WordPress here. As much as I’ll always have time for Matt, I don’t agree with him on this. For starters, the arguments he puts forward in terms of WordPress is free therefore themes should be free of advertiser links is spurious at best. Yes, WordPress […]