Dipping into the Blogpond

Sad news today that rocker Billy (“Thorpie”) Thorpe has died in Sydney from a heart attack at the age of 60. I remember reading his books about ten years ago – from memory “Most People I Know” and “Sex, Thugs and Rock and Roll”, and found them most entertaining. We’re in the process of creating […]

Due to popular demand, dLook today has reinstated free business directory listings for Australian businesses. So if you currently operate a business in Australia, mosey on over to our sign up page and if you decide that a premium listing isn’t for you, you can click the drop down box, select “free listing”, and add […]

I’m really cranky with myself. EVERY time, I tell myself I’ll be more organised, stay on top of things. But no – BAS deadline is Wednesday. I’ve got 4 to do. Wouldn’t be so bad if I hadn’t fallen behind on the bookkeeping. And I misplaced a statement from four months ago, which kind of […]

Cameron Reilly had a brief mention of an article in yesterday’s Australian Financial Review by Foad Fadaghi. The full article (update: now requires payment) can be referenced at the Australian online issue of the BRW magazine and is an incredibly in-depth analysis of online advertising in Australia. Some points from the article are below. Online […]

An interesting article by Ben Woodhead at Australian IT today entitled Funds Find $150m for Local Talent. An exerpt from the article; TECHNOLOGY venture capitalists are gearing up to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in fresh funding as they chase investment opportunities in Australia’s growing pool of entrepreneurial talent. Venture firms are looking to […]

It seems some unscrupulous operators are adding unsuspecting authors to their communities on mybloglog – presumably to boost exposure for their blogs. If you find you are suddenly authoring a site that you don’t in fact author here’s what you do. 1. Go to “my home” 2. Click on Edit Settings in the site you […]

This is very unusual. Listed on the hot communities on is a community that was titled “Blogmemes Belgium“. It has 145 unsuspecting members and what looked to be more authors than members. As I was scratching my head over the number of authors, the “screenshot” changed, as did the community title to “Blog f*%k Belge”. […]

In a recent post about Australian blog hosts and blog search, I mentioned Australianblogs which was redirecting to Buggerall. Well, Buggerall have released their latest concept in Australian community search – a place where users can add not only blogs and websites, but an assortment of classifieds notices, such as an event, personals, for sale, […]

I read with interest that Clarke Scott has recently released another website called Blogarate.com, which allows visitors to rate your blog posts. As the blogging community is buzzing about how Yahoo! ripped off Digg, this service quietly appears as another voting alternative, albeit with a difference. Blogarate is groovy in a couple of ways. Firstly, […]

For all the “Alexaholics” out there, I noticed that Alexa have made some great changes. What is of great value is that it reports your traffic rank in different countries. So for dLook, for instance, whilst our Alexa rank is 25,388 it actually shows that we rank 176 in Australia! It will be a much […]