Darren Rowse

In our current reader poll I’m asking readers to tell us how many posts they made on their main blog over the month of May. It’s only been 12 hours since I posted the poll so it’s early days – however so far category with the most responses so far ...more

Over at ScribeFire they’ve just published the 3rd part of my offline blog tips series (read part 1 and part 2). This one includes 7 tips from some of my Twitter buddies as well as four more of my own.

Over the last few weeks I’ve run a poll here at ProBlogger asking readers what they want to learn most about blogging. I’ve run this to help me put together my editorial calendar over the coming months. The results were fairly clear – just under a quarter of responses (1450 ...more

It’s time for another Reader Poll – this week I want to take a look at your posting frequency. How Many Posts Did You Publish On Your Main Blog in May? Pick your main blog and focus upon that. I responded for ProBlogger where I published 88 posts over May ...more

One of the keys to building a successful blog is to build something that is ‘interesting’. But how does one BE interesting? It’s probably a topic that deserve someone smarter than me to explore but it strikes me that one element of being an interesting blogger (or an interesting person ...more

Do you sometimes feel like you couldn’t possibly write another blog post, even if it was a case of life or death? Does the constant grind of writing to a schedule feel like it’s wearing you down? Take heart: it’s perfectly normal! It’s called a Dip. Many bloggers go through ...more

Here’s a question for the weekend that was submitted to me from Twitter friend philbaumann who asks: if you were permitted only 3 social sites to work with, which ones would you pick? So it’s over to you for your comments. Which would you choose (be it social bookmarking sites ...more

As a quick followup to my last post on my experimentation with Plurk I thought I’d do a quick analysis of the top 10 Plurk Users (as currently rated on the Interesting page). They are rated there on a basis of their ‘Karma’. There’s no explicit definition of the way ...more

If you are a FriendFeed user AND you like ProBlogger – you might want to check out a greasemonkey script for Firefox users that Duncan created that puts a ProBlogger tab to the top right hand corner of your FriendFeed page. It means you can view ProBlogger from within FriendFeed ...more