Darren Rowse

Time for a little weekend diversion…. Anyone who has started a WordPress blog will probably be familiar with Mr WordPress. He’s the guy who makes your first comment by default so that you know what a comment is. Very considerate of him really. His comment looks like this: Today I ...more

Many bloggers with Feedburner running their feeds noticed a bump in subscriber numbers over the last couple of days (my own jumped from 11,000 to 18,000 – partly as a result of two posts on Digg’s popular page). Does this mean we’ve all suddenly been inundated with new subscribers? I’m ...more

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been looking at building RSS feeds that POP. So far we’ve covered: Using Images and Video Scannable Content Titles with Bling Opening Lines Avoid Clutter How to Get More Subscribers to Your RSS Feed Today lets turn our attention to a question I’ve ...more

Yesterday when I called for reader submissions for a speedlinking post I had an inkling that I’d wake up to quite a few emails with links in them and my suspicions were correct – 47 in all. What has been submitted covers a broad spectrum of topics -some of it ...more

Over the last 12 hours there has been a lot said about the sale of Performancing to Splashpress. Some of it has been reported accurately – some of it seems to be contradictory to other reports. Performancing has been a major player in the blogging space and it’s sale impacts ...more

Earlier in the week I received an email from a blogger who had been the victim of a pretty vicious hate campaign against her from a number of other bloggers. She asked for advice on how to handle the situation. I gave her a number of pieces of advice (much ...more

More news today on the continuing sagas of Performancing. To say they’ve had some ups and downs of late would be an under statement – but today the news is breaking that Performancing Partners has been sold to Splashpress (owners of Blogherald and numerous other blogs) and will be managed ...more

Alex Iskold and Richard MacManus have put together a nice analytical post with some insights into how they determined which are the most popular posts on Read/WrightWeb based upon social bookmarking sites Digg and Delicious. I’ve seen people do this type of analysis of how their blog is going based ...more

Update: Time is Up – No More Submissions Please Don’t you hate it when you work on a post and then the blog gremlins come and eat it before you hit publish? I had a 8 point speedlinking post all set to go in ecto and it crashed…. grrrr…. So ...more