Dipping into the Blogpond

A blog signed up to the Australian Blogs Community on Bumpzee the other day, and the blog name made me giggle – “Joh Blogs“. I’d never made the connection before, but how often did we hear “Joe Bloggs” as one of those imaginary (or placeholder) names. What a clever name for a blog, particularly if […]

Weeks ago I started to look for other dot mobi sites for Australia. I’ve read that 500,000 dot mobi sites have been registered in 104 countries, but it seems finding those sites, and specifically sites for the Australian audience, is another challenge completely. Spurred on by Gary’s recent post entitled Is Australia ready for the […]

Aussie blogging stuff 1. New blogs added to the Top 100 Australian Blogs http://www.incsub.org/blog/ http://weblog.200ok.com.au/ http://danwarne.com http://life-coach-thea.blogspot.com 2. New blogs added to the Australian Blogs Community on Bumpzee Australian Car Advice / News Blog Infotropism Coffee, Tea or Baaboo A Beyootaful Life My Surf Brands Blog Snoskred from Life in the Country is hosting a […]

Are you aware of Bluejacking? It’s a form of close proximity messaging via bluetooth. Basically the term isn’t as bad as it sounds, because as annoying as it is, it’s relatively harmless. I wouldn’t be surprised if incidence of this rises (particularly in populated city regions) as a source of push advertising. My son’s school […]

Most of today was spent tweaking some elements of my blog. As per my own advice, and some fresh discussion on that post), I thought it was time to follow-up how my blog was looking according to Google. It seems “supplemental results” are a concern – although the jury is out as to how much […]

Due to popular demand, I’ve created a few badges for Aussie Blogs. There are 48 in total, varying sizes for 6 main themes “Join an Aussie Blog Community”, which links to the Australian Blogs Community on Bumpzee “I’m an Aussie Blogger”, which doesn’t link anywhere “Blogged in Australia”, which doesn’t link anywhere “I’m a Top […]

There’s no denying it. I inherited my father’s sense of humour. My dad, Warren, who’s celebrating his birthday today, loves to use puns. He always manages to make me laugh, even if some of them are pretty sick. Any time someone in the family makes a play on words, we call it “doing a Warren”. […]

I suppose one of the more rewarding things about developing a product like dLook is when the website is recognised by media professionals with a certain amount of acclaim. Our first foray into the public relations arena was a year ago when Sydney radio personality Alan Jones interviewed Theo on air on radio 2GB. Then […]