Darren Rowse

As a followup to our post yesterday on the PayPerPost buying Performancing story – it seems that I was right in saying that the sale (or intended sale as it’s still yet to be finalized) was only for part of Performancing. Nick explains it in his post Performancing and PayPerPost ...more

While i spent the day in the sun at the cricket watching Australia totally decimate England a storm has been brewing in the blogosphere over Microsoft giving away Ferrari Acer laptops loaded with Vista to bloggers to review – and if they want, to keep. Interestingly – I received an ...more

Techcrunch is reporting that PayPerPost is buying Performancing and will make the announcement today sometime. They say that the reason for the purchase is to give PPP access to Performancing’s 28,000 users. I will be interested to read the official announcements later today as I’d heard previously that a sale ...more

How do you build a ‘Digg Culture’ and get repeatedly on the front page of Digg over time? In this post I’ll share 10 ways that top bloggers do it. Last week on a post that Tony wrote about Digg Fraud one of those who left a comment wrote: “I ...more

Well the five things meme has circulated backwards and forwards through the blogosphere and I thought I’d escaped it as it does seem to be whimpering out – however Chris Garrett posted today that I was the only slack one in his list of tagees not to respond which alerted ...more

Well today’s the last working day before Christmas here and while a lot of my friends are out at office parties this work at home single person business guy is kicking back having my own little ProBlogger office party. I’m toying with the idea of photocopying my bum and/or making ...more

Now that the final submissions are all in for the Reviews and Predictions Group Writing Project it’s time to announce the prizes from our wonderful and generous sponsors who in total gave $2500 USD in gifts as incentives to participate. The following 10 winners were selected randomly (using a random ...more

The final day of the Reviews and Predictions Group Writing Project has arrived and as with each of the previous times we’ve done it I find myself with a mixture of feelings including being over stimulated (when you read 292 blog posts on such a wide array of topics it ...more

Penelope Trunk has a helpful post on how to get your blog mentioned in Print. She writes some good tips in each of the following areas: Don’t pitch yourself, pitch an idea. Pitch an idea with the print audience in mind. Tailor the idea to the journalist. Sign up for ...more