Darren Rowse

If you’re anything like me you’ve probably left your Christmas shopping to the last minute (as I write this post there are less than 3 hours left til the shops close here in Australia and I still need to get one more gift)! If you’re still searching for a great ...more

Yesterday I watched this mini disaster unfold before me between a couple exchanging Christmas gifts. As I watched the repercussions of the exchange of gifts (I’ll tell you what happened below) I found myself thinking about unmet expectations. Elliot Larson once said – “Anger always comes from frustrated expectations” – ...more

OK – last year I did an impromptu ProBlogger ‘Christmas office party’ on Christmas Eve. It basically involved me drinking beer and eating some chips sitting in front of a webcam while Twitter followers dropped by to say G’day. We did a bit of Q&A and had some fun for ...more

This is just a short note to update readers on ProBlogger.com – the ProBlogger Community area. In the last 24 hours I’ve added a new area to the forum area where I’ll be releasing monthly ‘featured content’. Each month I’ll be releasing a podcast interview with a successful blogger – ...more

As a quick update to my post over the weekend about Aweber’s system being compromised and spam emails being sent out to those that subscribe to Aweber lists – Aweber have today released a statement acknowledging the problem and talking about what they have done as a result of it. ...more

This morning I glanced down at the Alexa traffic indicator for ProBlogger in my Firefox browser and noticed that in the last week I’ve had a noticeable upswing in traffic to ProBlogger. At first I couldn’t think of why this might have been. In the last 7 days none of ...more

Guest Post by Katie Kimball from Kitchen Stewardship. I know how it feels to know absolutely nothing, and that’s actually a good place to be. When I hit the six-month mark with my blog, I took time to sit down and digest the experience, and I was pleasantly surprised at ...more

What are you doing with your blog over the holidays? As the end of the year draws nearer I’ve been pondering what to do with my blogs over the Christmas/New Years break. In the past I’ve done a number of things including: Blogging on as normal Getting a Guest in ...more

Updated: this post has been updated – twice. I don’t want to cause alarm on this but today I’ve had emails from 11 subscribers to two of my different email lists that I administrate at Aweber complaining that they’ve been inundated with pharmaceutical spam. In each case the subscribers have ...more