Today is a sad day in internet land: Yahoo has finally pulled the plug on GeoCities.
GeoCities was one of the first free, design-your-own-page website hosting services on the net, and was the place many of today’s web masters, bloggers and sundry other geeks popped their web design cherries.
Sure, most will remember it as a haven [...]
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A tribute to GeoCities
October 28, 2009 – 12:49 am
Hi, I’m First Dog on the Moon, but you can call me Penelope
October 14, 2009 – 9:41 am
During this morning’s editorial meeting we accidentally found out that had First Dog on The Moon been born a girl, his name would not, of course, be Handsome Mr Dog, it would be:
Penelope.
We also discovered he was a Catholic surprise baby.
This all turned into a fun game of:
What Would You Be Called If You Were [...]
Name that magazine
September 2, 2009 – 5:42 pm
Picking a publication name is perhaps one of the most delicious (great magazine name btw) of all the editorial tasks. Creative, best when caffeine-fuelled and much easier than writing the damn thing.
Crikey roadtest: New Vegemite
July 7, 2009 – 4:45 pm
So about a month ago, Kraft announced they were releasing a “new” Vegemite, which is patently absurd because there is nothing wrong with normal Vegemite.
But today a big box arrived at the Crikey office full of little snack pack samples of the stuff.
Each pack contained four slightly cheesy biscuits, and a little compartment of “new” [...]
Crikey work experience investigation: Have music stores moved Jackson merch?
June 26, 2009 – 11:56 am
The task: see whether music stores had already replaced Andre Rieu stands by pushing Michael Jackson merchandise to prime selling position — and if so, take a photo of the evidence.
Children in the Senate chamber: a Crikey cage match
June 19, 2009 – 1:10 pm
Bernard Keane reports in today’s Crikey Daily Mail email edition on the eviction last night of a toddler from the Senate chamber:
Sarah Hanson-Young is to be commended for having her child with her in the chamber yesterday. It was for a division, not a debate, and her daughter was about to leave to return to [...]
Welcome home snuggie
June 18, 2009 – 4:49 pm
Today, at approximately 10am Australian Eastern Standard time, the mail arrived at the Crikey office in Melbourne’s CBD. Normally The pile of letters and packages included a plastic express post parcel addressed simply to “Crikey“.
Contained within the package was a snuggie – and not just any snuggie – OUR snuggie. The original Crikey snuggie. Stinking [...]
Snuggie come home
June 16, 2009 – 3:44 pm
Over the weekend of June 13-14 the party of the century was held at Newman Street, Brunswick West, Melbourne. Though the dance floor was rocking and the conversation witty, the clear party favourite was a blue polar fleece blanket with sleeves — the snuggie.
For those of you who aren”t aware, the snuggie was mysteriously [...]
The battle for the Globe
June 12, 2009 – 4:46 pm
On the other side of the planet right now yet another American newspaper is struggling for survival in the Land of the Free.
The New York Times Company’s Boston Globe is one of that nation’s biggest and most respected and it’s sinking fast and loud, with media commentators the planet wide over analyzing every single tiny [...]
Crikey Roadtest: the Snuggie, the blanket with sleeves
June 11, 2009 – 4:19 pm
Here in the Crikey bunker we have Sky News on high rotation as we feverishly produce the daily Crikey email each day.
Maybe it’s the global financial crisis or maybe it’s a dream demographic match up but Sky News seems to be running a lot more ads from mail catalogue American companies in the Demtel mould [...]
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