Fitzroyalty is built using an self-hosted installation of the free open source blog platform from WordPress.org. WordPress.org recently stopped allowing WordPress users accessing the WordPress.com statistics engine via the established separate plugin, and now requires users who want to use WordPress.com statistics to install a new portfolio plugin called Jetpack, which incorporates several existing and new plugins into a single package.…
Monthly archives: August 2011
outsourcing responsibility
I’ve been working in the CBD for the first time for a few weeks now. Previously I’d worked mainly in the CBD fringe of Carlton and Docklands. Apart from the business jargon, which is giving me an existential rash, it’s fine except for one thing.…
it doesn’t belong to you Herald Scum
Never mind the differing opinions about the proposed development behind the Vegie Bar on Rose St, it was the Herald Scum’s theft and misappropriation of an image from the planning documents that astounded me. The image on the Herald Scum site is simply credited ‘Herald Sun’, but this is a lie.…
new Klara on Leicester St
Some new works by Klara appeared recently on Leicester St west of Brunswick St.
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empathy
A social street art experiment from SERI on Rose St.
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expelled
Over the weekend I got summarily ejected or deleted from the closed Facebook ‘Melbourne Food Bloggers’ group, despite previously being invited to join. The group was in the middle of a debate about the politics, economics and ethics of accepting payments for publishing commissioned infomercial or advertorial content.…
Grampians spam embarrassment
Oh dear. A regional tourism business has been using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk or something similar to hire illiterate spammers to comment on blogs about their business. Here’s a sample of the many that I have received recently. I encourage you not to stay with them.…
show me the menu
A few people have asked me if I have eaten at Eat Drink Man Woman on Brunswick St and, if so, why I have not reviewed it. I have not been and am not planning to go until I can read the menu.…
no more choc shock
The cafe with the least charisma in Fitzroy, Ta-co’s choc shock cafe, has closed after being open less than a year. Being the last to try cashing in on the chocolate cafe craze failed as it was obviously not expert in chocolate.…