Duncan Riley

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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.

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Born in Sydney, Australia, Riley is a pioneer in Australian politics on the internet writing what is regarded to be the first webpage 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 leading political and social groups within Australia, which became a leading source on information for the 1999 Australian Republic referendum.

In 2003 he launched The Blog Herald which went on to become a leading source of blogging news. In 2006, Duncan sold The Blog Herald to BlogMedia, Inc.

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. Weblog Empire was later relaunched as a blog linking service. In April 2006, Weblog Empire was sold to an as-yet undisclosed buyer.