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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.
Win
Meg updated her Top 100 Australian blogs, the best and fairest top Australian blog list (we can’t even get added to some of the others, go figure) Australia Day. Here’s the result Win. It doesn’t pay the bills I might add, but to be up there after just short of 9 months with the Allure […]
Bleg: Please browser makers, show a where the audio is coming from button
I’ll admit it: I’m a tab fiend. I switched away from IE6 to Firefox all those years ago (when I was still a Windows user) for tabs. Tabs were, and still are the miracle of the modern internet. They allow you to open content and come back to it later. In my case, that’s opening […]
A Proposal to Filter Christian Churches
This is in response to Jim Wallace of the Australian Christian Lobby in the SMH (via Stilgherian) Hon Kevin Rudd MP Prime Minister of Australia Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600 Re: proposal to filter Christian Churches Dear Prime Minister I write to you about the utmost urgency of protecting children from pedophilia and other deviant […]
Online Inauguration Video Fail
My experience at 3:45 AEDT this morning: Hulu: audio/ video out of sync, could only be fixed by closing the stream and restarting it…then slowly the same thing would happen again CNN/ Facebook: people are gushing over this. I’m sure it was great, except that I got a message that it was full and I’d […]
Inquisitr comes in at 7th on Australian Startup Index
The definition is probably a little fluid, but we get included with sites that may be arguably less deserving. Very nice though. The full index here. BTW, anyone know what’s happening with the top 100 Australian blogs index? Meg hasn’t updated since November. I in part understand why: manually calculating the totals must be a […]
Obama to the Right
Via Larvatus Prodeo an interesting piece from The Monthly Review placing Obama to the right in a world sense with this nifty graph. Money quote: “In other words, Barack Obama does represent change from the era of the Bush administration. He is the limited change that’s possible within the logic of the current system.” More […]
King St. Newtown the Song
Via FullTimeCasual, King St. Newtown the song. Besides what I think is an XC Falcon early in, not much has changed on the street. Well, the Hub closed down, long the Sydney Adult Theatre location of choice, and Coles New World doesn’t look that way anymore…but the rest looks very familiar. Still, I’ve only done […]
Inquisitr December 2008
Pageviews: 1,962,105 (per Google Analytics) Traffic profile: highest post accounted for 13.5% of traffic. Finances: profitable (that is, more income than the cost of paying writers excluding me). However unbeknown to us, the ad figures we were working with were make believe from one provider. We’re profitable, but not by as much as we’d believed. […]