Darren Rowse

The Amazon associates program is changing it’s payment system to be every month instead of once a quarter. So instead of getting 4 cheques (or gift certificates) per year you’ll get 12. The payment terms will be 60 days (ie you get your cheque or certificate 60 days after the ...more

Day 3 of the Reviews and Predictions Group Writing Project has seen yet another solid round of submissions – 74 in all today (which brings the total so far to 208 – see them all here). While numbers are slightly down on last time I’m excited by the quality of ...more

Blogger Beta came out of beta a couple of days back. So I’d be interested in hearing Blogger user’s reviews. Do tell! WSJ has published an opinion piece on bloggers and how we’re a mob. The irony is that bloggers everywhere are joining together to storm the paper’s website like ...more

Blog desktop editor ecto for Windows 2.2 has been released. New features include: Added Flickr Search support for image upload. Added more robust data saving to guard against OS crashing. Added support for CSS style/class for image upload. Added support for generic tag format (e.g. Ultimate Tag Warrior) Added GoDaddy.com’s ...more

If you’ve ever wondered what Google does and doesn’t clasify as ‘duplicate content’ then you might find this explanation of it on their official Webmaster blog. A few snippets: “What is duplicate content? Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match ...more

Eric Giguere asks an interesting question over at his blog – Do you have an “AdSense Will”? It is actually a question V (my wife) and I have talked about and made plans for over the past year or so. It became more serious for us to talk about when ...more

It’s day 2 of the ‘Reviews and Predictions‘ group writing project and I really enjoyed reading this next batch of entries. In fact I spent way to much time reading blogs today and not enough time posting! It just amazes me every day what a massive variety of blog topics ...more

Lifehacker: the book has now started shipping through Amazon. I’ve ordered mine. Another example of leveraging a blog to make money. Aviva Directory has a list of 99 tips to do branding on the cheap. It’s written for Web Startups but a lot of it could apply to bloggers. Are ...more

Two weeks ago it was Yahoo sharing the most searched for terms in it’s engine – today Google shares theirs with their annual Zeitgeist Report. Google’s top searches for the year: 1. bebo 2. myspace 3. world cup 4. metacafe 5. radioblog 6. wikipedia 7. video 8. rebelde 9. mininova ...more