Darren Rowse

Breaking News!!! Your blog’s readers are people. Have you ever lost sight of that fact? If you have – you’re not alone. I suspect that most of us as bloggers forget it from time to time. In the busyness of life, in pressure we put on ourselves to post regularly, ...more

I had an email today from two different newbie bloggers who wanted me to pass their thanks onto contributors of the current Group Writing Project where bloggers of all levels of experience are sharing how they’d do things differently if they had to start their blogs again. Here’s a quote ...more

Dr Dave has written a warning for WordPress users regarding a possible security problem. He doesn’t go into details (probably a good thing) but warns people to turn off the ‘Anyone can Register’ option on your WP blog and delete any guests that you’re unsure of. He writes: “Leaving it ...more

Do you have a way for your blog readers to contact you? I’ve just spent a frustrating 15 minutes looking for a way to contact a write on CNET’s Alpha Blog and am left quite frustrated by the distance that they seem to have put between their bloggers and readers. ...more

It’s day two of our ‘if I had to start my blog again group writing project’ and here’s the submissions from the last day which will also be added to the central submissions page. Look more forward than back, two million in the distance by TDavid An Even Bigger Chorizo ...more

Ooh – looks like Apple have just announced a new Bluetooth Wireless Mighty Mouse. I’ve been waiting for this one for a while to add to my blogging head quarters.

I hate tax time (in Australia we operate on a July to June financial year) – not just because I have to give my government almost half of what I earn (I see this as a responsibility to give something back to the land I live in) but because of ...more

A few days back the Blogging Times reported that celebrity blog PerezHilton reached 1 million readers in a day this month. That’s some serious traffic and would be a pretty amazing blog to monetize. Mario Lavandeira is the blogger behind PerezHilton and by the looks of things his income streams ...more

There’s been a great initial response from readers in the new Group Writing Project on the topic of ‘if I had to start my blog again’. I’ll be accepting submissions until Thursday so follow the process outlined here and be included in the list central list of submissions. Here are ...more