Darren Rowse

Nick Denton has announced that the content sharing partnership that Gawker had with Yahoo has ended. The reasons – it didn’t generate them much traffic, didn’t seem to convert them many new readers, the demographics of Gawker and Yahoo didn’t really match up and Valleywag’s coverage of Yahoo Media head ...more

A few weeks back I wrote a post titled No-one links to the linkers. It had quite a few comments left on it but one (it was one of the last ones left) caught my attention above the others and as I read it I knew instantly that I could ...more

Jason Calacanis has posted a post that could be the begin of professional social bookmarking (someone better register prosocialbookmarker.com). He’s offering to pay 12 or so top users from sites like digg, reddit, MySpace, Newsvine, Delicious and Flickr to submit posts to Netscape. Read about it at his post at ...more

I’m not back yet from my couple of weeks off (the interview series and guest blogging will continue) but have started wading through my bloglines account to see what I’ve been missing. Here are a few posts that have caught my eye from the last week or so so far: ...more

The following is an answer from Wendy Boswell from Lifehacker, Snarky Gossip and Stewies Playground (just three of her projects) responding to my one question interview question of what she’d do differently if he had to start her blog over again. I wouldn’t worry about being everything to everyone. I ...more

Digg is making it easier to add ‘digg this’ buttons on your blog. I’ve not worked out how to do it yet but apparently you can set it up so that the number of diggs an article has can be shown and people can digg an article directly from your ...more

The Podcast Network has taken an interesting step and is auctioning advertising in their G’day World podcast on ebay. Three ads are up for auction – get the details of how it works here.

The following is an answer from Mike Rundle from Business Logs and 9rules Network responding to my one question interview question of what he’d do differently if he had to start his blog over again. Well before I can really answer that question, I should probably talk about why I ...more

The following is an answer from Andy Wibbels from Six Figure Blogging and Blog Wild responding to my one question interview question of what he’d do differently if he had to start his blog over again. I would have been keen on keywords from the get-go. I sorta kinda knew ...more