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John Lampard
disassociated (usually all lowercase, sometimes all uppercase) sates a 1997 high-school like fascination with web design, and, for better or worse, has been transmitting from the east coast of Australia ever since. On and off, and in different formats, but it all kicked off in 1997.
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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the internet, writing for The Guardian: I gave the world wide web away for free because I thought that it would only work if it worked for everyone. Today, I believe that to be truer than ever. Regulation and...
A binary stellar system consisting of a Wolf–Rayet (WR) star, and a larger main sequence star, known as V Sagittae, are predicted to erupt in a massive explosion, possibly before the end of the century*. Presently the WR body is...
On Friday 27 September 2013, I posted a link to a short film I saw that day. The story still holds up twelve years on. Directed by Rod Blackhurst, Time Alone is about a young woman, Ann, portrayed by Rose Hemingway, who spends a weekend...
David Uzondu, writing for Neowin: Microsoft is reportedly discussing with select US publishers a pilot program for its so-called Publisher Content Marketplace, a system that pays publishers for their content when it gets used by AI...
Press Gazette: The biggest year-on-year declines were at Forbes (down 53% to 85.5 million visits — the steepest decline year on year for the second month in a row), Huffington Post (down 45% to 41.3 million), Business Insider (down 44%...
Phil Gifford, who gave us ooh.directory, has published a method for downloading a TypePad blog, and uploading the files to a another server, should you so wish, so your TypePad blog can live on under a new guise. Don’t forget, TypePad...
In an ideal world subscribing to a website/blog’s RSS feed should be as simple as following a page on the socials. Simply click the follow button, and that’s it. In the case of, say, Instagram all future posts of whoever you started...
Running since 2020 I believe, this year’s Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival is on from Friday 3 October until Sunday 5 October 2025, at Event Cinemas, on George Street, in Sydney’s CBD. Eleven features will be screened, with many...
Fiverr plans to layoff one third of its workforce in a bid to become an AI-first enterprise, says CEO Micha Kaufman. By swapping out people for AI technologies, the company will become leaner and faster, according to Kaufman. Time will...
The Australian government has issued guidelines regarding proposed age verification regulations that come into effect this December. While social networks will be required to “detect and deactivate or remove” the accounts of members...
James O’Sullivan, writing for Noema: While content proliferates, engagement is evaporating. Average interaction rates across major platforms are declining fast: Facebook and X posts now scrape an average 0.15% engagement, while Instagram...
Like many online-publishers/bloggers, I’ve experienced significant surges of traffic caused by AI bots indexing — or whatever they do — thousands of pages at a time on my website. I’m in two minds as to whether or not to block this...
Tom Saunders, writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Thanks to climate change and a rapid warming trend in our oceans, the historical record and current analysis of the two Pacific phases has become contaminated. El Niño,...
The fellowship was created in 2011 to honour the memory of late Australian writer and biographer Hazel Rowley, who died in the same year. Past recipients of the fellowship, which supports the work of Australian biography writers, include...