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I'm glad lots of you are visiting my site following this morning's article on why blogggers blog. I stopped posting on this site to focus on my main site Corporate Engagement. Unless you're going to work at blogging, and I do mean work, maintaining one blog in something like a healthy thriving state is probably not possible. In addition, there are now so many Australian blogs and podcasts and places to find them that I felt that the purpose of this site (to promote awareness) has been made pretty much redundant. Looking for more Australian blogs: try here and here...

So here's the problem - I'm overloaded. Too much information, too much blogging. It's been fun but not sustainable. Phase 1 of my 'simplify, simplify, simplify' strategy was to cancel ALL my paid online subscriptions. Those cancelled were New Matilda, FT.com, The New Republic, Audible.com basic listener package and my Avantgo power users account. These are all great services and the costs are very reasonable but I just don't have the time, and second if it doesn't appear in my Bloglines aggregator these days, I'm just not likely to read it anymore. What's more, there is so much great free...

ABC News Online. Music industry research suggests music fans downloaded 420 million songs legally over the Internet worldwide in 2005, a 20-fold increase from two years ago. Record labels reaped a $1.47 billion harvest from digital downloads, up from $508 million the previous year, with about 40 per cent of this revenue earned from music for mobile phones. The research, published by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, an industry-sponsored body, came a day after Apple Computer reported a 95 per cent rise in quarterly profits....

The Age Blogs: Razor / Sony BMG finally dances to iTunes Archives....

Sunday Herald - Technology. Sydneyanglicans.net, the website of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, has embraced the new technology as a way to spread the message to as many of the faithful as possible. Through the website visitors can download a host of sermons from different parishes or organisations in the diocese or meditations or preachings on various topics, including the Archbishop's Christmas message, Dean Jensen's Men's Sexuality Seminar, Bishop Rob Forsyth's address Continue To Walk In Christ, a preaching on The Judgement Of God and another on The Seven Deadly Sins....

Link: The Digital Media Winners of 2005. 2005 was a watershed year for the future of digital media. It was a year that saw the rise of podcasting and satellite radio. It was the year of the Supreme Court's Grokster decision and the KaZaa trial in Australia. It was the year that Sony placed malware on millions of music CDs, creating one of the loudest uproars on the Internet. It also was the year that witnessed the rise of the independent musician through entities like MySpace.com....

Link: 2005 review viewed from the land Downunder...kinda :: AO....

desparoz On The Go Number 15 is right already. Telstra said yesterday that they are delaying the deployment of their new digital fibre network until a government review is complete next year, and they are already falling behind on their ADSL2 schedule with even major Sydney exchanges not due no until the end of next year. Lucky we have other providers on the ball....

Technology - smh.com.au. Broadband is shaping up as the vital link for the telecomWell maybe; but I'm not convinced that Telstra is heading anywhere but downhill because it just doesn't have the capacity to win in a user-focused environment. They'll always be late to market with new stuff and always more expensive and their service is well, lamentable to put it politely....

Official Google Blog: New Firefox extensions. It wasn't that long ago that I was eating Vegemite on toast back in my homeland of Australia, idly wondering what my future employer Google might have in store for me. Now, five weeks after arriving in the country and being exposed to the Firefox codebase for the first time, and thanks to the array of geniuses sitting around me, it gives me great pleasure to announce the launch of my first project, Blogger Web Comments to Google Labs....