Darren Rowse

Gizmodo has come in for quite a bit of criticism on their own blog today with a post Confessions: The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES where they posted a video of how they caused havoc at CES by switching many TV’s on and off using an IR clicker. The ...more

A few weeks back I mentioned in passing that I’d show you my new office in a video. I never quite got around to that – so thought I’d show you today.

This is a guest post by Lea Woodward from modern nomad. Some people find blogging relaxing, a release and an outlet; many others don’t. It often depends upon your reason for blogging. I’m guessing that most of you who read ProBlogger do so because you’d like your blog to become ...more

Overnight I had an email from the team at MediaWhiz who have just announced that they have merged two of their ad networks together (AuctionAds and ShoppingAds) under the one name of ShoppingAds. What I like about the new look ShoppingAds is that it combines both CPA (cost per action) ...more

IZEA today have launched what it’s been promising for a while – IZEARanks.com where it measures ‘RealRank’ of blogs (their announcement is here). What is RealRank? – “a blog ranking system that uses real data to calculate which blogs are getting the most traffic and have the most influence on ...more

Entrecard is a blogging service that has quickly emerged (or exploded) onto the scene over the last couple of months. Entrecard widgets are popping up on thousands of blogs around the blogosphere – including here at ProBlogger since they became a ProBlogger sponsor. I get a lot of questions about ...more

I rarely promote conferences that I’m not attending – but in the case of Elite Retreat I make an exception because it’s a concept that I believe in strongly and it’s something that I’ve been a part of previously. Last year I was a speaker on their last San Francisco ...more

The AdSense blog has just announced changes to the AdSense referral program which I’m pretty disappointed in. In fact they anger me and leave me disillusioned with AdSense. There are two changes: 1. Changes to Payment System The ‘experimental’ payment system for publishers promoting AdSense is being changed back to ...more

Last week I was chatting to a new blogger and he asked me “how do you manage to keep coming up with post ideas for my blogs?” It’s a question I get a fair bit – and one I’ve struggled to answer… until recently. It sounds odd that I don’t ...more