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.

1. 28 Oct 2008·Web 2.0

   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 […]

2. 2 Oct 2008·Web 2.0

   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, […]

3. 18 Apr 2008·Web 2.0

   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.