Duncan Riley
Duncan Riley (born September 4, 1975) is a blogger and former Vice President of b5media which he founded along with Darren Rowse, Jeremy Wright and was later joined by Shai Coggins. He lives in Australind, Western Australia, Australia.
Biography
Born in Sydney, Australia, Riley is a pioneer in Australian politics on the internet writing for a branch of a political party in Australia in 1995, and going on later that year to write the now defunct Australian Conservative Politics portal, the first conservative aggregate political site in Australia.
In 1999, he authored the website Young Australians Against this Republic, in conjunction with a number of political and social groups within Australia.
In 2003, he launched The Blog Herald. In 2006, Duncan sold The Blog Herald to BlogMedia, Inc., which subsequently sold the site to Splashpress Media.
In 2005, he launched web log network Weblog Empire, which later was joined into blogging network b5media, a company found by Riley along with Pro Bloggers Darren Rowse and Jeremy Wright. In November 2006, Duncan left to b5media to pursue personal projects after a split occurred between the founders. Weblog Empire was later relaunched as a blog linking service. In April 2006, Weblog Empire was sold to an as-yet undisclosed buyer.
As of May 2007, Riley is a Contributor at TechCrunch.com and pursues a number of other activities via his web development company Nichenet Pty Ltd. Riley podcasts for The Podcast Network with a show On The Pod and is also preparing an internet radio station based on The Podcast Network content.