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Re: Finance Blogs

Mike — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:40:39 -0000

I also thought I would start writing about investing this year. So far it has been a great help with getting my thinking straight.

Re: Prepare to Be Inspired: A Presentation by Dr John DeMartini

Mike — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:51:55 -0000

Possibly. It seems a little unnatural to have to scroll up again after reading the post.

Re: Prepare to Be Inspired: A Presentation by Dr John DeMartini

Mike — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:15:57 -0000

I am going to download this. Just a thought, why not move the comment link to the bottom of your post.

Re: Neural Reconditioning: My Commitment to Change

Mike — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:18:35 -0000

I remember I went through similar stages when I was about to quit my job. If you have clear goals what you want to do and have defined ways to meet them, you will be fine!

Looking forward to the challenge!

Re: Dreaming on.

Mike — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:40:37 -0000

That is a great picture and sure to keep anyone motivated. Just watch out for tsunamis!

Re: Use the web to get your 2008 Beijing Olympics fix

Mike — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:31:18 -0000

I am also in Beijing blogging the Olympics. I will check out the FriendFeed room.

Re: Hooters Beijing Opening: The world is NOT flat.

Mike — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:38:02 -0000

Nice video. Looking forward to visiting there myself :-)

Re: Beijing Olympics Advice from ex-CNN journalist

Mike — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:13:45 -0000

Wikipedia is accessible now in China.

Re: Chasing Viral Videos Is As Dumb As Chasing Web Traffic

Mike — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:48:17 -0000

I am enjoying your radio show and this is a good reply to that tech crunch article. I think it is the usual case of company marketing departments getting caught up in internet buzz words, without understanding the full consequences.

Re: Sharon Stone’s Too-Late Backpeddling

Mike — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:50:36 -0000

Tibet borders Sichuan so not surprising many Tibetans lost their lives in the quake. I hope this will teach Hollywood stars not to get involved in issues that they know nothing about.

Re: Chinese President Goes Online for Chat to Answer Two Questions

Mike — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:51:57 -0000

Why is the government making it difficult for foreigners during the Olympics, a time which China should be embracing foreigners visiting the country.

Re: The Quality Equation in Blogging 2.0

Mike — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:33:16 -0000

I agree totally. I have found the original content stories I have written on my Olympic site get the most links/comments. Posts that are a rehash of other news don't get links, but they do bring in traffic from keyword searches.

Re: Digg Moving Rapidly Toward News: Sign of an Acquisition?

Mike — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:53:53 -0000

If a news company buys them there has to be the temptation for them to favor their own stories. Even if they didn't people would question every story that made the front page. I couldn't see the current community hanging around.

Re: Cuil: Interesting, but not so cool for research

Mike — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:32:06 -0000

I am on the top page for "beijing olympics" and I see 14 referrals from cuil.com today

Re: Australian Government considering iPod searches

Mike — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:31:30 -0000

Crazy! Bringing back a case load of pirated DVDs from Bali is still ok though.

Re: Olypmic Internet Access will be unrestricted

Mike — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:43:50 -0000

Chinese act in very mysterious ways. I wonder why they just didn't give it to them in the first place. Take away a journalists complete access to the internet and you know what their first story is going to be about. An article did point out though, what are they doing in the office surfing the internet anyway. Shouldn't they be out and about writing stories that haven't appeared on the internet.

Re: Olypmic Internet Access will be unrestricted

Mike — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:52:11 -0000

"China will still be able to block sites it deems 'subversive or against the national interest', according to a statement by IOC Press Commission chairman Kevan Gosper."

Problem is they use different technologies to block sites. I have a regular travel site for example that is on a shared server, but is blocked in China. Feedburner is ok, but when you click on a link in your RSS reader to a blog that uses Feedburner links, the page comes up as not found.

I am pretty sure you won't hear the end of this.

Re: Melbourne Startup Camp: the good, the bad and the VC

Mike — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:37:34 -0000

I am sorry I missed it. Maybe next time.

Re: ZDNet is morally bankrupt

Mike — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:57:09 -0000

I think Crikey.com.au suffered from this for a long time until they got established. I now see Crikey getting quoted often now on media websites. Not that you don't have the credibility, but it takes time to build. The growth of Inquistr since its launch, I think you are on your way there.

Re: Memo to online companies: Please Stop Georedirecting

Mike — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:14:35 -0000

Totally agree with you on this. I am in Thailand now and it is frustrating seeing menus in Thai. Why can't there be an option in Google to only show stuff in English. Yahoo is also bad when signing up for accounts. Why can't they just add a link to the English version. Very frustrating.

Re: Slumdog Millionaire Wins Four Golden Globes

Mike — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:37:13 -0000

I just bought this book last night. It looks like an interesting story. The original title for the book was "Q and A".

Re: Riding high speed trains everywhere but in North America

Mike — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:18:44 -0000

Australia is up there with Canada and the US. People only think of flying or driving.

You should also take a look at what they are doing in China. I love traveling by train in China.

Re: We were wrong. Twitter took $35m, not $25m. What recession?

Mike — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:32:36 -0000

But, you could have said the same thing about Google when they were starting out. I thought twitter would never go mainstream, until I saw it mentioned on CNN not so long ago. Also the way they spoke about it, it was like everyone in the world knows what it is.

Re: Australian Minister confirms legal content may be blocked by Internet Censorship Regime

Mike — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:40:21 -0000

Is this heading to some kind of classification system on the Internet in Australia?

Re: Live Search rebranding – Kumo sneak peek

Mike — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:13:51 -0000

I have seen Danny Sullivan mention it a few times, why doesn't Microsoft just put a search box on microsoft.com

How many average internet users know that live.com is part of MS?

Re: Cameron Diaz is starting to look like Goldie Hawn, and that’s not a compliment

Mike — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:30:45 -0000

She looks ok to me. I think you are pretty harsh on her.

Re: UK Police Officer sues over beard discrimination….must stop laughing

Mike — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:43:41 -0000

It does look odd. I know you shouldn't laugh at people for their appearance, but how about just a little bit of a trim?

Re: Earthquake rattles Melbourne, Australia

Mike — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:14:10 -0000

If you live in Tokyo for long enough you get used to them, but I would still get freaked out occasionally especially at night. I am in North Sumatra now and yet to feel one here, so it is strange that Melbourne has had two in the past month.

Re: Fake Stephen Conroy sacked by Telstra

Mike — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:46:57 -0000

"Last night I said that Telstra hadn't shut down Leslie's Twitter account. This was based on the advice of my colleagues. It's factually correct, though it's also true that Leslie's senior managers independently told him last night to stop."

You can see how that guy got his job at Telstra.

Re: Love Facebook? Now you can get a Masters Degree in Social Networking

Mike — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:51:07 -0000

Problem is that these sites change so much. What works today is going to be out of date in a week.

Re: Australia commits AU$43 billion to broadband network that will be redundant before its finished

Mike — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:24:05 -0000

The government should really be looking at what Japan is doing now. Eight years is a long time to wait and there could be completely different technology by then.

Re: Yang Peiyi Olympic Ceremony Lip-Syncing Exposed (VIDEO)

Mike — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:45:15 -0000

This made the headlines during the Olympics. Strange that you are reporting it now.

Re: Dell might as well call all women dames and babes

Mike — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:38:58 -0000

The digital nomad site sounded interesting but I get this error:

You don't have permission to access /wordpress/ on this server

Re: The Future Summit: Australia’s future as a technological backwater

Mike — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:51:55 -0000

What do you expect from a government whose solution to the economic downturn is to give everyone in the country $900 cash to go out and spend on imported products. Imagine if they used the money in a tech start up fund. It seems like Australia never recovered from the 2000 dot com crash.

Re: Alec Baldwin Banned from the Philippines over Mailorder Bride remarks

Mike — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:53:43 -0000

You can't say anything without causing offense to someone these days. Maybe the word "mail-order" is out of date and he said "internet chat bride".

Re: Australian Government may backflip on compulsory internet censorship

Mike — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:28:34 -0000

I think you can be assured that not one ISP would implement filtering. The whole exercise has been a waste of time and money and I hope voters don't forget this at the next election.

Re: Sadly we bid a fond farewell to JR Raphael

Mike — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:58:54 -0000

I will be interested to see his new site. Good luck JR and i am sure Duncan will send you some traffic :)

Re: Mashable, John Reese and YOU

Mike — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:32:40 -0000

Your link to Mashable has an extra "http"

Re: Tlife Melbourne More Staff Than Customers…

Mike — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:21:48 -0000

We invite you to explore Telstra's crappy internet which is the slowest and most expensive in the world.

Re: What a surprise!

Mike — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:40:39 -0000

Here is the scene from Beijing:
http://2008gamesbeijing.com/apple-opens-first-s...

Re: My Awful Spelling…

Mike — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:39:48 -0000

I read the email, but didn't notice the spelling. I was think more about the content of the email to even notice the grammar/spelling.

If it was printed out, I probably would have noticed, but when it is in an email like this, I don't think people really notice that much.

Re: Living to Do What You Want to Do (or why b5media is the best funded company around)

Mike — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:09:19 -0000

That's great! I hope you get some nice stock options.

Re: Why Americans worry the rest of the world

Mike — Fri, 05 May 2006 10:35:00 -0000

Sometimes I wonder if this is just an American thing or if it is a problem world wide. My conclusion is that it is fairly common among young people world-wide, but America would probably come out worst.

Re: Surpass Hosting Sucks, or the problem with shared hosting

Mike — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:41:55 -0000

I am on Dreamhost with a number of low traffic sites, and they seem to be fine. I understand what you are saying about shared hosting being a scam, but if you think how little it costs and how much money you can make off your sites, it is all fairly cheap. Also think how much money it must cost to cover a techies wages for a month.

Re: Free Wireless for Americans

Mike — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:46:29 -0000

Telstra offering free wireless - can't see it ever happening in my lifetime! When I check the prices of broadband in Aust it makes me want to stay here in Japan.

Re: NAB Spams Blogs. Australian Blog Owners Need To Change Banks

Mike — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:19:23 -0000

LOL. I have had my travel blog spammed by Jetstar Airlines. As a long time NAB customer I could probably give you 101 reasons why you shouldn't bank with them.

Re: When I run out of quota, what then?

Mike — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:42:39 -0000

That is really crazy. You should move to China! I negotiated the internet into my rent. If I paid myself it would have cost about $15 a month. Speed is not bad and still better than Telstra. My rent on a fairly nice 1 bedroom place in Beijing is only $500 a month.

Re: iPhone 3G Unboxing

Mike — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:45:49 -0000

Looks like there might be a problem with the embed code. How much is it going for in OZ?

Re: Australian Government fails again on Internet Censorship

Mike — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:01:00 -0000

Sounds exactly what someone in the Chinese government would say.

Re: For love or money

Mike — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:46:36 -0000

Sounds like a bit of fun. Have you ever been to Pubcon? That's one conference I would like to go to.

Re: Top Gear Australia fails because it’s just a car show

Mike — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:23:05 -0000

Haven't seen the Aussie version, but I agree with you about the UK version of Top Gear. It's informative and entertaining at the same time.

Re: Just when I was beginning to warm to the PM

Mike — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:27:26 -0000

That's crazy. We know that executives are paid to much, but getting the government to regulate their pay?

Re: How Obama is to the right in an Australian sense

Mike — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:39:49 -0000

Pretty amazing the coverage it gets in Australia. Although with more people having business ties to the U.S., the result could have greater effect on their lives than a local election.

Re: Were F*cked

Mike — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:27:44 -0000

It's the correction we had to have. The economy was going out of control. There will be a few people who lose their jobs, but other than that will anyone feel a negative impact?

Re: Bailouts

Mike — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:41:54 -0000

The car industry in Australia and probably the US is dying a slow death. Sure it provides some employment, but it is only going to be lost to China and India. Why bother fighting it? Imagine if the government put money into internet startups instead.

Re: Hitler - Internet Censorship Australia

Mike — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:33:53 -0000

Nice one. "Even Deryn Hinch is against it". LOL. Curious if this is getting much media attention in Australia?

Re: On servers and MediaTemple

Mike — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:57:28 -0000

Sounds expensive, but if you had to hire someone to manage it for you, it could be double this. If you are just getting DB timeouts, rather than having problems with bandwidth, perhaps your WP install needs tweaking.

Re: Bleak Shopping Christmas

Mike — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:05:33 -0000

Can easily find parking at Chadstone? Times must be tough. Just discovered dstore.com.au accepts PP.

Re: Telstra’s up to its old tricks

Mike — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:06:10 -0000

Incredible, but somehow not surprising. I wish some academic would do an economic analysis of providing cheap/fast internet to all Australians.

And how about looking into Internet over power lines.

Re: Win

Mike — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:42:57 -0000

Good effort. Unfortunately I am not on list any longer. I like the name of the blog "the food pronographer"

Re: Some Australian PR Reps don’t get blogs

Mike — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:23:21 -0000

And probably in a couple of months the $10 balance will be in the red with the various bank charges and taxes.

Re: Inquisitr February 2009: and still the ad market bleeds

Mike — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:31:09 -0000

The traffic growth is impressive, but I think you are always going to struggle with advertising on an entertainment site. Maybe you could try some affiliate programs.

Re: Inquisitr looking for bloggers, and a note about the pay model

Mike — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:23:33 -0000

I imagine you will get plenty of applications, but might be hard to find the right people. I hope you post again the results of your trial. Maybe now that you have the links and traffic from the celebrity stuff, you need to do more "money" posts.

Re: Conroy’s internet filter ‘won’t stop child porn’

Mike — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:35:58 -0000

I think this happens all the time with politicians, the only thing now is that you are paying attention to this issue.

Re: Now I hate the Rudd Government even more

Mike — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:40:17 -0000

Seems crazy to me. The same with the bonuses they are handing out.

Re: Sorry Stilgherrian, you’re wrong on a key point

Mike — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:12:57 -0000

Creating a whole new entity sounds like a huge expense. The fibre optics are only going to be a small percentage of the total cost.

And who is going to work at this new company? Ex-Telstra employees of course, which means it will have the same culture and mindset of Telstra.

Re: NBN Numbers Part Two: why it may never cover its costs

Mike — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:40:23 -0000

Telstra will also lower their prices, so the take up rate could be slow.

Re: Holy Smokes Batman: Telstra might be broken up!

Mike — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:21:30 -0000

I wonder if the government really understands the ramifications of the new network. How fair can it be that the government sells off Telstra and then finances a whole new publicly financed company?

Re: Nine’s double edged sword

Mike — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:13:54 -0000

You can buy Underbelly in Indonesia for less than a dollar a disc. I thought it was interesting that they were selling Aussie shows. The show didn't leave a good impression of Australia with my Indonesian gf.

Re: Defeating Ruddonomics a pile of money at a time

Mike — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:08:51 -0000

Property prices are crazy in Australia. The pool likes nice. If it's shared by everyone at least you don't have to bother with the cleaning.

Re: Beijing Olympics: Tons of Resources to Enjoy the Olympic Extravaganza

Mike — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:44:01 -0000

Thanks for the link!

Re: Hooters Beijing Opening: The world is NOT flat.

Mike — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:38:02 -0000

Nice video. Looking forward to visiting there myself :-)

Re: Beijing Olympics Advice from ex-CNN journalist

Mike — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:13:45 -0000

Wikipedia is accessible now in China.

Re: Murphy’s Law Caught Us With Our Pants Down

Mike — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:06:15 -0000

I have to admit I am not a regular reader of your site, but it is a great story how you could make this site such a success.

I also read you are going to Australia. If you have any questions, please take a look at australiaforum.com

All the best with the sale and the move!

Re: Its Air Experiment Failing, Beijing Considers "Emergency" Plan

Mike — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:29:20 -0000

The air is a little clearer today and the rain should help ease the problem. Here are some pics from my apartment:

http://2008gamesbeijing.com/a-little-cooler-and-clearer-in-beijing-threat-of-rain/