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gyrovague.com

vaguely heretical musings on travel and technology

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45 from 8 Sep 2011 to 24 Jun 2026
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2026 2

  1. archive.yesterday: an empirical study of the Streisand effect
  2. archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog

2025 1

  1. Anatomy of a boarding pass: how to detect fake flight tickets by scammers

2023 1

  1. archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet

2021 3

  1. Mars the Arrival: an ode to the slowest game in the world
  2. Disconnect@Changi: How Singapore’s business bubble hotel quietly deflated
  3. 38 per hour? Predicting daily COVID cases from press release delays in Singapore

2020 3

  1. Predicting Singapore’s next travel bubble
  2. COVID theater: the upcoming gauntlet of dubious air travel safety measures
  3. Islands in the sea: A simple model of a world with endemic coronavirus

2018 2

  1. Mofobikalypse: Mobike is Sydney’s last bike share still standing
  2. Mofobike: A personal comparison of Sydney’s bikeshare programs and why they’re all doomed

2017 2

  1. The rich get richer: Loonie swaps and altcoin airdrops
  2. Monaco: Doing the math on an ICO where the house always wins

2015 2

  1. The last subway line in Japan
  2. Crashes only on Wednesdays

2014 3

  1. The Opal or Not Report: The hidden $98 (or $54) million fare hike
  2. How SMS set back the mobile internet by ten years
  3. Sydney’s screwed-up smartcard, or why I wrote “Opal or Not”

2013 8

  1. Half the Donut: Why an entrepreneur earning $100k gets to keep over $99k in Singapore but under $57k in San Francisco
  2. Lonely Planet: This is Not the End
  3. Time is money: How Clash of Clans earns $500,000 a day with in-app purchases
  4. Down, down, down: Books, e-books and apps all trending to zero
  5. Farewell Lonely Planet Melbourne, hello Google Sydney
  6. Guest post on O’Reilly TOC: The publishing industry has a problem, and EPUB is not the solution
  7. Dorky is OK: Google Glass does not have to be the next iPhone to win
  8. Free travel guide Wikivoyage comes out of beta and is already kicking ass

2012 14

  1. Wikitravel Press: Seven lessons from a startup that failed
  2. Wikivoyage name confirmed, Internet Brands contests SLAPP but drops one charge
  3. Internet Brands get anti-SLAPPed
  4. No cheeseburger for you: A look at the Internet Brands v. Wikitravel volunteers lawsuit
  5. Wikimedia confirms creation of travel wiki, sues Internet Brands to end legal threats against volunteers
  6. Drinking from the travel literature firehose and choking on my last gulp
  7. Why Google will most likely kill Frommer’s, and why that’s probably a mistake
  8. Notarizing your fingerprints for fun and profit
  9. Wikitravel editors abandon Internet Brands, join up with Wikipedia
  10. Why the Web will gut paid e-books and apps, and why free can pay for authors and publishers
  11. Eat yourself or be eaten: a tale of two travel publishers
  12. Why e-books will soon be obsolete (and no, it’s not just because of DRM)
  13. Designing the Travel Guide of the Future, Augmented Reality Edition
  14. Designing the Travel Guide of the Future

2011 4

  1. Slicing the fruitcake of atomic content
  2. The chimera of social travel
  3. User-generated content: what went wrong and why it still matters
  4. Welcome