Darren Rowse

Recently at a family dinner I heard ‘V’ (my wife) raving about how much she loves her pillow (I don’t know how that came up). Since she bought us new pillows (Denton pillows) she says she’s not had a bad night’s sleep. I chuckled to myself as I heard her ...more

Some links from my feed reader: Bobs Brain Dump has a useful post – Social Networking Tips and Business Plan. Thanks to JeffRoyce on Twitter for the tip. Blog Bloke has been documenting his migration from Blogger to WordPress platforms. If you’re looking to make the change this will help ...more

Today i came across a great post written by Rocai from Blogging Mix – Why it is Better to Network with Non ProBloggers. One might think that from a title like that I’d avoid it (and to be honest it’s a difficult post to read on some levels as it ...more

Today Wendy Piersall from eMoms at Home shares how she improved her blog in 2007 by shedding some light on the process of shifting her blog from just being a blog into being a network/magazine-style site. The “one” thing I did to improve my blog was a huge undertaking :: ...more

Earlier in the week it was revealed that AdSense had made a mistake in calculating payments to some non US publishers. It seems that the problem was localized here in Australia and New Zealand and that Google inverted the exchange rate that they used to calculate how much publishers would ...more

Today Collis Ta’eed from FreelanceSwitch has answered my question about how he improved his blog in 2007 by continuing to explore the topic of how to add new bloggers to a blog (similar to Andy’s previous post on the topic). There are as many types of bloggers as there are ...more

One compositional technique that I teach in Digital Photography is to give your portrait subject space to look into when framing your shot. You can see it in the image below – but the basic principle is that if your subject is looking to one side of the frame – ...more

One of the areas that many bloggers want to see improvement in when it comes to making more money from their blogs is in the area of RSS Advertising. Today Bidvertiser started experimenting with just this. I’m yet to try it for myself and there’s a distinct lack of information ...more

It’s always interesting to see how different blog networks pay their bloggers. Valleywag today has a post on Gawker’s new blogger pay structure – they’re moving to a system where their bloggers are paid based upon traffic levels. It’s a smart way to go – we’ve been doing a similar ...more