Darren Rowse

Common Craft shares some of the behind the scenes story of how they make their great videos – they’ve been producing some great work lately and it’s great to see how they’re doing it. Dean starts a series today on Buzz and Viral Marketing. Read Write Web has been hot ...more

It looks like ReviewMe is adding another product to their range – this time it’s Advertorials. On their Advertisers page they share what they are: You can browse our marketplace of top blogs and choose the blogs to run your message which you remain in full control over. Advertorials also ...more

I just logged into my Amazon Associates account and they’ve done an update to their user interface. There’s nothing particularly new to what they’ve done that isn’t cosmetic – but it is nice and will make checking daily stats a lot easier. For starters you now don’t need to scroll ...more

Last week I was saying to myself that I needed to get a testimonials page together for the ProBlogger Job Board. It’s on my to-do list (along with 60 or so other things) but today Michael Gray over at GrayWolf posted a post that I think will make a great ...more

I’ve never really been a big domain name collector – but in the last few weeks I’ve enjoyed seeing what names are out there and even picking up a few for a rainy day (for the distant future as I have no time for new ventures at the moment). I’ve ...more

One of the popular stories going around today is that of Nielsen/NetRatings (an online measurement service) scrapping the basing of their ratings being based upon page views and moving to tracking how long people spend on a site. This is as a result of the increased use of video and ...more

Last weekend I asked bloggers to share the lessons that they’ve learned about blogging that they wish they knew when first starting out. The resulting comment thread is so rich with ideas, experiences and lessons that it’s too good to leave languishing in a comment thread. As I read through ...more

I just had a rather disturbing email from a company advertising a new service called Buy Blog Comments (no follow tags used) promoting a new service offering to leave comment spam on blogs for those wanting to increase their SEO ranking. The service offers to leave spam comments at a ...more

Richard MacManus reflects today upon an article that appeared in a local site which featured his story of turning blogging from a hobby into a Career. Richard says some very worthwhile stuff about the keys to his success – particularly the amount of work and time that’s gone into building ...more