Darren Rowse

Steve Rubel has written a couple of posts in the last two days reporting on how Google is integrating their blog search more and more into their Google News service. This gives bloggers even more incentive to use Google’s Blog Pinging Service (the main way that Google suggests you get ...more

Thanks to those readers in Canada who expressed interest in meeting up when I’m over there in November. There are a few who’ve said they’d like to catch up so we thought we’d do a ‘meet up’ as Duncan will be over there too. Rather than create our own even ...more

Bloggers – have you checked out ProBlogger’s Job Boards lately? As it currently stands there are 19 unfilled blogger jobs there ranging from Boxing and Wrestling bloggers to Celebrity Bloggers, to Insurance Bloggers and New Media Communications Specialists. Keep an eye on the jobs as they are listed via the ...more

ProBlogger reader (and a mate of mine) Matt Glover is having a Group Drawing Project over at his blog Chewing Pencils. In it he’s inviting bloggers to draw Christmas Cartoons. It’s a pretty similar format to my group writing projects – but Matt’s will actually have a winner – chosen ...more

I was just surfing over at Amazon tonight (I’m trying to spend a gift voucher – anyone got any recommendations for cool books/CDs on there?) and I came across a book being released this week – Frank Warren’s “My Secret: A PostSecret Book” (aff). Its a book bouncing off the ...more

Mark has an outline on the changes in soon to be released WordPress 2.0.5 (via David at Blogging Pro).

Over at b5media’s internal blogging forums there’s an interesting thread going on where the question was asked (by Jason) – ‘what do you do for a living?’ So far the answers show a real diversity of occupations – from business consultants to stay at home moms, to pro bloggers, to ...more

Today my laptop (a 15″ G4 Apple Powerbook) died. It’s survived being dropped (not by me) , it’s had coffee spilt on it (not by me), it’s been around Australia and overseas on numerous trips, it’s been used for tens of thousands of blog posts (it must be close to ...more

It has been around 18 months since I first saw an advertising network begin to offer RSS advertising (it was AdSense launching their beta testing program to a limited number of advertisers – which incidentally still in beta). When this program was announced it caused quite a large buzz around ...more