Darren Rowse

In news that I suspect will please many Performancing users Nick Wilson is just about to announce that their deal to sell some of their assets to PayPerPost is off. Nick writes: “After much discussion, we’ve decided that the deal proposed by PayPerPost just isnt right for us or our ...more

I just saw the promo page of the new video solution/player that AdBrite are about to launch for bloggers and webmasters who want to use video on their sites and monetize it. It’s called ‘InVideo’ (beta) and it’s got some features that have me interested (if only I used video). ...more

I switched from Bloglines to Google Reader a month ago and I’ve not turned back. While it did take a little getting used to I quickly found a new rhythm of blogging and am not right at home with it. Today on the Google Reader blog they announced a new ...more

I love hearing stories of of young entrepreneurs and so today when I came across 12 year old ProBlogger David Wilkinson whose Web 2.0 blog is Techzi I was over the moon. Here’s a young guy who has recruited a couple of friends (one is 12, the other is 11) ...more

Brian at Caydel’s SEO Blog has written a post today revealing that Google AdSense is Beta-Testing Keyword-based Ad Filtering that allows publishers to nominate keywords that they don’t want ads about on their sites – a sort of ‘negative’ keyword targeting. This would help publishers who are getting mis-targeted and ...more

Interweb World posts a useful list that reflects upon some of the lessons that they learned in the recent re-launch of a forum that didn’t take off the first time but which did really well the second. Their lessons include inviting an audience, promotion, creating content, responding and killing trolls. ...more

LifeHack.org posts Six Improvements to Your Blog. Digital Inspiration has a useful post with a number of HTML tricks for Bloggers to give your blog posts a little style There’s a nice post over at Digital Point from a guy Burta who talks everyone through his journey of growing an ...more

I’ve been using my Digital Photography School as a case study over the past 9 months since it’s launch. I’ve previously talked about it (at launch in a vidcast, then giving a progress report and then talking about some of my goals for it) but it’s been almost six months ...more

Rachel’s put together a list of Useful resources for creating a WordPress theme which kicks a new series of posts for those wanting to create WordPress themes.