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Welcome to the world little Nikola Barac. My wife and I have just had another little boy, Jack being our first, and the proud father that I am I had to put them into a post.

Macquarie Radio Network has just launched a new site to take on the big Australian news portals such as Sydney Morning Herald, MSN and The Australian. The site is pretty nifty with quick links to audio and video streams but it’s big differentiators are the strong focus on user comments and links back to sites like Digg and Delicious and the fact that much of the content seems to arrive directly from MRNs radio network so stories should break sooner than on sites using only syndicated content.

It’s good to see someone take an approach that, while not utilising user generated content, does try to invlove it’s readers more and gives their comments front page exposure. There is something pretty cool about seeing your name and opinion on the front page of anything like this.

I do wonder how it will fair against established players but I beleive that if the site manages to focus more on this key difference that it will eek out a solid niche audience that will grow over time.

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Chitika, who stirred up the web advertising pool some time ago, have just launched a referral program for Facebook users. Basically anybvody who signs up with Chitika, it’s free btw, get $1.00 for each referral they can net.

They have also launched a new banner for the iBought application (see below) and a bunch of other stuff too including the “eMiniMalls for Facebook” application:

You know that sinking feeling when you get from holidays and you have some crazy number of emails to go through? Well I got back to the office after the weekend and had 581 bloody emails in my inbox.

Here’s the breakdown:

1. 111 Server related updates, reports and warnings
2. 23 Internal “FunStuff” emails
3. 389 emails from clients

This is why I don’t blog much

Imagine my suprise when I logged into Digg this morning to have a look at a post that I put up for a Simpsons avatars group on Flickr to discover Google ads for “Simpsons Fucking”. How awesome…

I don’t really have any issue with porn as long as its consenting adults and no-one is being forced to do what they don’t want to do, but the Simpsons is a family based show with a new movie that will be viewed by adults and children alike. I don’t exactly want to have my kids viewing ads for sites like these.

C’mon Google. How about policing adwords a little better?