Darren Rowse

Mid December I posted that I’d be giving a special Christmas present to one lucky ProBlogger reader who left a comment here at ProBlogger between then and Christmas. Today I randomly chose the winner who will win a copy of each of the following 10 books that I rated as ...more

A couple of years ago I came across an enthusiastic blogger by the name of Andy Wibbels who was putting together a 4 week course called Easy Bake Weblogs (aff) – a course for those just starting out in blogging to help them work out how to start a blog. ...more

2006 was a massive year for me both on a personal level but also on a blogging front. I became a Dad in July, V and I took a couple of interstate trips, I travelled to Canada, I started a new blog and forum at Digital Photography School, b5media went ...more

Google sent their top earners digital picture frames, YPN sent sweatshirts and in the last few days Chitika publishers have started getting their gifts – ipod shuffles. Very cool idea and something practical that I’m sure will get a lot of use. I’m not sure what the cutoff point was ...more

What better way to end the year with a bit of fun by working out what super hero describes me best. Nothing too serious here – but it’d be interesting to see someone aggregate results from a range of bloggers to find out if any super hero dominates! Anyway – ...more

901am has interesting news today about the blog platform (Blogsmith) behind the Weblogs Inc blog network. David reports that Blogsmith to launch in early 2007 and become available for bloggers to use. I’ve not seen the backend of Blogsmith but it will be interesting to see how it compares to ...more

Des from Business and Blogging was asked a couple of weeks ago to describe his blog in 10 words or less. His description was: “How blogs work, or don’t, to support business goals.” I guess mine would be my catch cry – ‘helping bloggers earn money’. I think it’s a ...more

Have you ever wanted to be able to track your Amazon Associate program’s performance with channels (like you can with AdSense and Chitika)? I’ve heard a number of publishers complaining about this and even a few saying that they have multiple Amazon Associate accounts for this purpose. It seems that ...more

For those of you wanting to give Text Link Ads (aff) a go that are not on WordPress – you might be interested to know that they yesterday announced that they are compatible with Blogger Blogs. I hope you enjoy Text Link Ads for Blogger!