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I am not dead

By Ben Hourigan On 2008-08-26 · 2 Comments

Well, that’s the last time I go to Mount Gambier! I would link to this story, but that would push its Google PageRank even higher. As it is, I’ve already had my place as the #1 result for “Ben Hourigan” usurped. Given that I tell people “if you’re not the top hit for your own [...]

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No more email lists, please! Replace them with RSS!

By Ben Hourigan On 2006-01-24 · Leave a Comment

I implore the maintainers of event- and opportunity-related email lists to use RSS instead. Get a free blog at “Blogger”:http://www.blogger.com or “WordPress.com”:http://www.wordpress.com, post your notices there, and let the interested subscribe to or unsubscribe from the feed as they like. Keep the email lists for the RSS-illiterate if you must, but let the tech-savvy turf [...]

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iTunes Australia, where you pay more for less

By Ben Hourigan On 2005-10-30 · 1 Comment

iTunes Australia is finally out. But tracks are $1.69 each, and albums are at least $16.99. When I lived in Melbourne, I used to buy CDs from Dragonfly Discs. There, I could buy classic CDs like David Bowie’s Low for $15. On iTunes Australia, Low is $17.99. Now, why would I buy Low from iTunes [...]

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    Ben Hourigan is an indie novelist, the author of Kiss Me, Genius Boy (2011). He is also the manager of digital operations at a Melbourne design publisher, a freelance writer and editor, and the founder of ebook label hourigan.co.

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