Darren Rowse

Ten Grammar Errors that Could be Haunting Your Blog
Do you ever get the feeling that a blog post is written directly for you? While I’m not sure this one is written with me in mind – it could well be! Top Ten Grammar Errors that Haunt Web Pages it’s = it is Web site (or page) vs. web ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

moo offers 10 Free Skype Calling Cards
moo printing have done it again. Last time they offered 10 free minicards in conjunction with Flickr – this time they’re doing it with Skype. Get in quick to be part of their 10,000 free 10 pack give away. I just ordered mine (it says ‘Call Me’) on the front ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Chitika ShopCloud$
Chitika have announced a new product today – ShopCloud$ You can see an example of it below – but basically it is a tag cloud that highlights ‘hot products’ as well as a search box with an AJAX option that suggests products as people add letters into the search field. ...more
General

Speedlinking 25 October 2006
A List Apart has a good tutorial on creating Print friendly versions of your pages Loren has decided to use Google’s new Custom Search to power the Blog Search Engine – submit your blogs to it today. Brian writes a great post on using Bullet Points in your posts Aviva ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

WordPress MU 1.0 Launches
WordPress MU 1.0 has been launched today. This is a ‘Multi User’ blog platform (it’s what is behind WordPress.com) and is designed to run many blogs on the one install rather than just one – something I know many bloggers will be interested in. It does sound like it is ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

Introduction to WordPress Resources
I’m sure I’ve seen some good resources on this previously – but has anyone written (or seen anyone else write) a good free and easy to comprehend Introduction to Using WordPress that talks beginners through the basics of things like: Posting Uploading Photos Creating Categories Making Drafts Changing Timestamps Moderating ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

RSS News Reader Reviews
I missed this earlier in the month but CNET put together a review of some of the more popular RSS readers at Make your own headlines. They looked at Bloglines (rated 7.7), Rojo (rated 6.7), Google Reader (no rating given), FeedDemon 2 (rated 8.0) and Newsagator Inbox 2.6 (rated 7.5). ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

ProBlogger Community Search Engine – Submit Your Sites
So Google’s Custom Search Engine service is now live and I thought I’d give it a go to see how it works and have a bit of fun. I’ve created a ProBlogger Search Engine which you as ProBlogger readers are welcome to contribute sites to. There’s a link on that ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

Google to launch Custom Search Engine
Loren posts that Google will tomorrow launch a Custom Search Engine which will allow publishers to create their own specialized Google Search Indexes made up of specific sites. This will include a revenue sharing model that is similar to what AdSense offers through it’s search box. Loren quotes a Financial ...more
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