Darren Rowse

I never thought I’d quote Kenny Rogers on this blog but here’s something he said to a contestant on American Idol this series: “the first word that comes out of your mouth helps people to decide whether to listen to the next word, which in turn helps them work out ...more

Tubetorial does it again with another helpful video tutorial – Back Up Your Blog or Risk Losing It All Yaro asks is Professional Blogging a Sustainable Business Model? – I think so, but not for everyone. The Diva Marketing Blog has a fun (and useful) posts – 22 Blogging Tips. ...more

103 bees has added a very useful tool to their search terms analysis system. Previously they enabled users to track what keywords people were using to arrive at your blog but now they’ve added questions analysis. They’ve worked out a way to tell if a search term is a question ...more

The Australian Financial Review has a short piece on me and the computer that Microsoft sent me this week. The article also features a comment from Trevor Cook. AFR’s website is a little bizarre so I’m not sure how long the article will be up and I can’t copy and ...more

If you’re a WordPress blogger you’ll want to take a look at this post over at WP’s Development blog announcing an upgrade to WordPress 2.0.6. It’s a security upgrade and therefore something to pay attention to. They also note that this is the last update before the release of WP ...more

The Wall Street Journal had a nice piece on Gina Trapani’s Lifehacker yesterday at Lifehacker Draws Visitors With Time-Saving Tech Tips. Lifehacker is a standout blog in my opinion and a prime example of how blogs can be more than just creating noise and clutter on the web by actually ...more

Aaron has started a series of posts titled Podcasting Essentials where he’s going to be unpacking some of the lessons from starting his own podcast. Do you have a Bad Back or Sore neck from all those hours in front of the computer? Web Worker Daily has some exercises that ...more

The Seventh Annual Weblog Awards is now open for nominations for it’s 2007 awards. This is one of the bigger annual blog awards with a fairly broad selection of categories so head over and start nominating – but before you do – how about taking a few minutes to run ...more

I’m looking for a new email newsletter solution – does anyone have any recommendations? I’m looking for a service that will handle multiple newsletters with 15,000 or more subscribers on a weekly basis, that will be reliable, that’s not too expensive (I don’t mind paying something), that is easy to ...more