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John Lampard

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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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• Fears the Artemis II heat shield may not be safe 2026-03-31 01:00pm
• Australia facing an AI led job ‘wipe out’ that no one is prepared for 2026-03-31 12:30pm
• Stephen Colbert overshadows The Lord of the Rings Shadow of the Past sequel 2026-03-30 01:00pm
• Over hiring, not AI, behind recent tech industry redundancies 2026-03-30 12:30pm
• US court finds Meta, Google, failed to warn users of the dangers of their platforms 2026-03-26 01:00pm
• Do you enjoy forty-nine megabytes of extraneous data with your news? 2026-03-25 01:00pm
• Talk the talk but cannot circle back and walk the walk 2026-03-25 12:30pm
• Twitter, the upstart social media platform that stunted the growth, and more, of the web 2026-03-23 01:00pm
• The 2026 Oscars: the end of Hollywood, and film, as we know them? 2026-03-19 01:00pm
• AI spam, the latter day internet, force digg.com offline for now 2026-03-18 01:00pm
• Has the true identity of British street artist Banksy been revealed or not? 2026-03-18 12:30pm
• Buzzfeed facing bankruptcy after AI gamble unravels 2026-03-18 12:00pm
• No sign of extraterrestrial life? Blame it on bad space weather 2026-03-17 01:00pm
• Font Awesome cans renaming plans for Eleventy static site generator 2026-03-16 01:00pm
• The longlist for the 2026 Stella Prize literary award 2026-03-13 01:00pm
• Get listed in the 2026 Internet Phone Book 2026-03-13 12:30pm
• If flip-phones can make a comeback, can Flash do the same? 2026-03-06 12:00pm
• Hell hath no fury like an AI agent scorned 2026-03-06 11:30am
• The Rot, by Evelyn Araluen, wins 2026 Victorian Prize for Literature 2026-03-01 12:00pm
• Climate change may render Iceland uninhabitable in a century 2026-03-01 11:30am
• AI to micromanage fast food restaurant workers 2026-02-28 12:00pm
• AI powered traffic cameras enforce road laws with an iron fist 2026-02-28 11:30am
• Toxic people, or hasslers, reduce life expectancy of those around them 2026-02-28 11:00am
• A day in the life of a world without an internet 2026-02-28 10:30am
• New AI tool intends to streamline using WordPress.com blogs 2026-02-24 12:00pm
• Problematic Instagram use: redefining the nature of addiction 2026-02-18 12:00pm
• Vision loss in some people is being attributed to their tattoos 2026-02-18 11:30am
• Meanjin magazine given reprieve by Queensland University of Technology 2026-02-13 12:00pm
• Linux Mint developers mull longer release cycles 2026-02-13 11:30am
• Those thinking AI will reduce their workloads might be mistaken 2026-02-10 12:00pm
• Elon Musk says a city-size Moon base could be built in ten years 2026-02-10 11:30am
• Creative Australia opens applications for a National Poet Laureate 2026-02-09 12:00pm
• Statcounter eliminates bot visits from their web analytics 2026-02-09 11:30am
• Artemis astronauts take smartphones to the Moon, Instagram goes interplanetary (sort of) 2026-02-06 12:00pm
• I, for one, welcome our new AI agent employer overlords 2026-02-06 11:30am
• Heatwaves impact daytime spending habits of Australian consumers 2026-02-05 12:00pm
• Mozilla is forming a ‘rebel alliance’ to take on the AI heavyweights 2026-02-05 11:30am
• The Devil Wears Prada 2 trailer, am I having a hallucination? 2026-02-02 12:00pm
• Substack reportedly asking Australian users to verify their age 2026-02-01 12:00pm
• Coming soon to Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp: subscription content 2026-01-30 12:00pm
• Hal had feelings in 2001: A Space Odyssey, does AI in 2026? 2026-01-27 12:00pm
• Influencers, content creators, taking centre court at Australian Open 2026-01-26 12:00pm
• Olivia Dean tops 2025 Triple J Hottest 100 countdown 2026-01-25 12:00pm
• Blogs are Back: easily follow website and blog RSS feeds with one-click 2026-01-25 11:30am
• OpenAI rolling out age prediction system, but how accurate is it? 2026-01-23 12:00pm
• Threads surges ahead of X/Twitter among mobile device users 2026-01-23 11:30am
• The highs and lows of publishing contributor dependent websites 2026-01-20 12:00pm
• Nearly five million Australian social media accounts deactivated after ban 2026-01-18 12:00pm
• digg.com two-point-zero officially relaunches 2026-01-15 12:00pm
• SXSW Sydney cancels 2026 event, leaves Australia 2026-01-14 12:00pm
• Adelaide Writers’ Week on the brink following author boycotts 2026-01-12 12:00pm
• Markdown does not belong to John Gruber, it belongs to everyone 2026-01-11 12:00pm
• Much of Australia presently in the grip of a heatwave 2026-01-07 12:00pm
• The more personal websites there are, the better the web will be 2026-01-05 12:00pm
• Large Language Models and Artificial Intelligence in 2025 2026-01-04 12:00pm
• Adam Mosseri: the old, personal, Instagram feed is dead 2026-01-04 11:30am
• Write more, about anything, on a personal website, not social media 2026-01-01 12:00pm
• Melbourne Ashes fourth test pitch judged unsatisfactory by ICC 2025-12-31 12:00pm
• Otroverts have websites called disassociated, are like Albert Einstein 2025-12-31 11:30am
• The COVID, AI, triggered cultural vibe shift we did not see coming 2025-12-29 12:00pm
• Are you a ‘small i’ indie web, or ‘capital I’ IndieWeb, publisher? 2025-12-29 11:30am
• Some Australian cafes adopt automatic tipping as costs keep rising 2025-12-23 12:00pm
• Hollywood creative group seeks responsible use of AI in filmmaking 2025-12-23 11:30am
• Jarrod Grech paints mural of Ahmed Al Ahmed, who disarmed a Bondi Beach shooter 2025-12-23 11:00am
• Firefox will give users the option to disable AI features 2025-12-21 12:00pm
• Users may have to pay to post links on Facebook pages. Time to get a website 2025-12-21 11:30am
• X moves to head-off claim on ‘abandoned’ Twitter branding 2025-12-19 12:00pm
• Former police officer warned of potential Bondi Beach mass shooting ten years ago 2025-12-19 11:30am
• Mastodon members prefer Linux operating systems 2025-12-16 12:00pm
• Copywriters who lost work to AI tell their stories 2025-12-16 11:30am
• Australian gun laws set to be tightened following Bondi Beach shooting 2025-12-15 12:00pm
• Reddit: the Australian social media ban is unconstitutional, in a way 2025-12-14 12:00pm
• EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, with 2001: A Space Odyssey vibes 2025-12-14 11:30am
• Numerous people killed in terrorist incident at Bondi Beach Australia 2025-12-14 03:36am
• X has abandoned the Twitter brand, Operation Bluebird wants to own it 2025-12-12 12:00pm
• Australian social media ban, day one: so far I have not been carded 2025-12-10 12:00pm
• The Australian social media ban is also a ban on education 2025-12-10 11:30am
• Rage bait named word of 2025 by Oxford University Press 2025-12-07 12:00pm
• The Australian social media ban may not achieve much 2025-12-07 11:30am
• What happened to Problogger and Darren Rowse? 2025-12-07 11:00am
• Spotify listeners shun Australian music says Wrapped 2025 2025-12-04 12:00pm
• Universe to astronomers: I am stranger than you imagine 2025-12-03 12:00pm
• Neocities, Nekoweb, bringing back the weird personal websites 2025-12-03 11:30am
• Bad design trends: hotel rooms without bathroom doors 2025-12-01 12:00pm
• Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from sale in UK bookshops 2025-12-01 11:30am
• Dave Winer: to comment on a blog you need to have a blog 2025-11-30 12:00pm
• Blogosphere sightings: handwritten content, ceaseless curiosity, and a niche blog 2025-11-28 12:00pm
• AI slop named word of 2025 by Macquarie Dictionary 2025-11-28 11:30am
• Linux distribution Zorin OS downloads surge as Windows 10 support ends 2025-11-26 12:00pm
• Sam Altman, Jony Ive, tease arrival of their AI device 2025-11-26 11:30am
• Feeds and algorithms have freed us from personal websites 2025-11-25 12:00pm
• Esoteric, speciality, niche blogs closing down, not being replaced 2025-11-21 12:00pm
• Niche blogs are just too weird, their presence cannot be tolerated 2025-11-21 11:30am
• Verify the age of adult websites users via their device operating system 2025-11-21 11:00am
• Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? 2025-11-19 12:00pm
• ChatGPT to remove em-dashes from AI generated output if asked 2025-11-16 12:00pm
• Read a chapter of a book daily in your RSS reader 2025-11-16 11:30am
• Children’s Booker Prize hopes to encourage younger people to read more books 2025-11-16 11:00am
• Twenty-five must visit cinemas across Australia 2025-11-14 12:00pm
• ‘AI Window’ lets Firefox users opt-in to Mozilla AI browser 2025-11-14 11:30am
• Curiosity-driven blogging: try doing that on TikTok or Instagram 2025-11-11 12:00pm
• Meta to phase out Share to, Like on, Facebook social plugins 2025-11-11 11:30am
• Two numerals, six seven, are the dictonary.com word of 2025 2025-11-10 12:00pm
• alive internet theory, bringing the dead internet back to life 2025-11-10 11:30am
• Star Trek reboot, Kelvin timeline, movie series cancelled 2025-11-09 12:00pm
• The Rot, new work by Evelyn Araluen, Australian poet 2025-11-04 12:00pm
• Non-existent but realistic looking Australian phone numbers for film and TV 2025-11-04 11:30am
• Too complicated for algorithms: the universe cannot be a simulation 2025-11-02 12:00pm
• Sydney’s Writers’ Walk to become longer, celebrate other artists 2025-11-02 11:30am
• Average at Best, a memoir by Astrid Jorgensen, Pub Choir founder 2025-10-28 01:00pm
• AI information summaries eating away at Wikipedia reader base 2025-10-28 12:30pm
• ChatGPT Atlas browser: the greatest thing since tabs in Firefox 2025-10-26 01:00pm
• Ethan Hawke discusses forty years of film work 2025-10-22 01:00pm
• Blogs, a lot of them, millions of them, as agents for change 2025-10-22 12:30pm
• The Transformations, a new novel by Australian author Andrew Pippos 2025-10-21 01:00pm
• Vale William Munro, AKA Billy Wiz, Bondi Junction personality 2025-10-21 12:30pm
• Authors claim Salesforce used their novels to train AI agents 2025-10-20 01:00pm
• Eight out of ten coffee drinkers prefer instant over drip 2025-10-20 12:30pm
• Tasma Walton, Robbie Arnott, jointly win ARA Historical Novel Prize 2025-10-16 01:00pm
• Every blog has a yelling dumbass reader 2025-10-15 01:00pm
• Socialising leads to longer life, but what about introverts? 2025-10-14 01:00pm
• Vale Diane Keaton, star of Annie Hall, First Wives Club, and many more 2025-10-14 12:30pm
• ISP customer hompages lists, the first web directories of the early web 2025-10-09 01:00pm
• Robotic self-driving vehicles a threat to gig-economy food delivery work 2025-10-08 01:00pm
• NASA plans to send four people around the Moon in 2026 2025-10-07 01:00pm
• In the end days of Windows 10, Windows 7 enjoys a resurgence 2025-10-07 12:30pm
• Vale Patricia Routledge: Mrs Bucket has left the building 2025-10-06 01:00pm
• Trailer for One More Shot, a time travel comedy by Nicholas Clifford, with Emily Browning 2025-10-06 12:30pm
• Michelle de Kretser, Rick Morton, among 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Award winners 2025-10-06 12:00pm
• Windows 10 support extended free for some users but only delays inevitable 2025-10-06 11:30am
• A loophole for surviving the heat-death of the universe, or a noose? 2025-10-02 02:00pm
• Genuine looking spam comments: a new AI generated assault on bloggers 2025-10-01 02:00pm
• Tim Berners-Lee: the web needs to return to its roots 2025-09-29 02:00pm
• V Sagittae nova might outshine Antares, Betelgeuse supernovas 2025-09-28 02:00pm
• Time Alone, a short horror film by Rod Blackhurst 2025-09-26 02:00pm
• Microsoft to pay some publishers for content used by AI agents 2025-09-26 01:30pm
• Answer engines: a new challenge for content writers, bloggers 2025-09-24 02:00pm
• Download your TypePad blog and post the content to a new website 2025-09-23 02:00pm
• Subscribe Openly, and (almost) one-click RSS feed subscriptions 2025-09-22 02:00pm
• The Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival, 3-5 October 2025 2025-09-19 02:00pm
• Online freelance marketplace Fiverr aspires to be an ‘AI-first’ company 2025-09-19 01:30pm
• Australian social media age verification laws: you might need to prove your age 2025-09-19 01:00pm
• The last days of social media, or wishful thinking? 2025-09-18 02:00pm
• Death by a thousand cuts: the AI scraper indexing one blog post at a time 2025-09-15 02:00pm
• Climate change making El Nino and La Nina harder to forecast 2025-09-15 01:30pm
• Entries for final Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship open October 2025 2025-09-14 02:00pm