Darren Rowse

We are right in the middle of the ‘silly season’ when it comes to shopping for Christmas and as a result as bloggers wanting to make a little extra money from our blogs at the moment we are presented with a unique time of the year – many of our ...more

A few links for you. WordPress 2.7 is out and available for download. AdSens have extended their domains program to anyone who wants to use their ads on their unused domains. Speaking of AdSense – if you’re expecting a Christmas gift from them in the mail this year (they have ...more

In this post Marko from How to Make My Blog takes a look at how to develop a Media Kit to attract advertisers to your blog. Having direct advertisers is a very lucrative way of monetizing your blog. Ads are one of the few ways in which a blogger can ...more

Writing technology, science and programming blogs, or simply writing for technology savvy readers can have unique challenges. They are often more critical, not as loyal to a single blog source, and are difficult to keep engaged. The ten tips I share here should help attract this finicky audience, and keep ...more

This is a guest post by Musing, cataloger of great blogger sayings My blog is nine months old. You’d think I wouldn’t have had time to make too many mistakes. Wrong. Though, overall, it’s been an awesome experience, if I could go back and do it again here are three ...more

Yaro and Gideon just sent me this video as a taster from their Become a Blogger Premium program. It’s on the topic of creating online audio content for your blog. This is a taster of the type of content that is a part of the Become a Blogger program which ...more

This makes a lot of sense to me – Blog World Expo and New Media Expo are merging into one mega conference in 2009 (New Media Expo has been sold to BWE). I remember thinking halfway through BWE this year that a lot of the content being covered wasn’t strictly ...more

Here’s the final part in a series of tips that I’ve been showing over the last couple of months from Blog World Expo where a number of bloggers share some quick blog tips. This video features Lee LeFever (Common Craft), Josh, Matt and Nate (UniqueBlogDesigns), Tim Flight (Shopzilla) and Rick ...more

Yesterday I wrote about my experience of launching a new blog and talked about some of the benefits of starting new blogs once you already have one going. Today I want to continue to reflect upon the launch of TwiTip and share four thoughts on adding new blogs to your ...more