Darren Rowse

Michael Moncur has written a thoughtful post asking Whatever happened to online etiquette? which bounces off (and largely rejects) the NYT piece by David Pogue of the same name. I think Michael makes some worthwhile points – particularly in his third point about Anonymity and fifth point about content inspiring ...more

Day 1 of the Reviews and Predictions Group Writing Project is over and 55 submissions have arrived in my inbox from readers who are competing for the $2500 in prizes. This round includes a few posts from our sponsors themselves (they’re not in the running for prizes but wanted to ...more

An Australian Blogging Conference looks like it will be held in Brisbane in March of next year according to Peter Black who is organizing it – via Des Walsh Josh Dorkin put together a useful post on copyright and what to do when someone steals your content Search Engine Journal ...more

Yesterday I went to my PO Box and was surprised to find four Christmas Cards and two Christmas Gifts from ProBlogger readers. Interestingly this is the third day in a row when I’ve had such surprises in my mail box – something different for me as last year I think ...more

The AdSense team have finally come out and publicly written about their policy on images near their ads. This is long overdue as it has been almost a year since I’ve had publishers asking me about the topic and have seen publisher experiment with the practice of putting ads above, ...more

It’s time for another ProBlogger Group Writing Project – and this time we’ve got 10 prizes worth between $2000 to $2500 USD! PLEASE READ ALL OF THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE SUBMITTING. Particularly pay attention to the instruction to submit NEW posts not previously written ones. Old posts (written before today) won’t ...more

Poet Robert Bruce recently put together a poetic video for everyone’s favorite Copy Writing Blogger and I have to say I was a little jealous – to my knowledge no one’s ever written a poem or made a video for me before. But I lived in hope! :-) Today Robert ...more

Aaron just IM’d me to let me know that my post on TIME being linkbaiter of the year has climbed up to #3 on Techmeme (actually it got to #2). The irony is that my in jest (attempted humor) accusation that TIME have pulled off the most successful linkbaiting of ...more

Epiar Market Research Blog has put together an interesting list that tracks what ‘Christmas’ things people are searching for online this year. Here are the first 8 items on the list. They are estimated searches as measured across all search engines. See the full list at Christmas Wishes Expressed in ...more