Darren Rowse

The following is an answer from Hugh MacLeod from Gaping Void responding to my one question interview question of what he’d do differently if he had to start his blog over again. OK, the question “What would I have done differently” is a toughie. I have found blogging a blast ...more

I’ve been interviewed on quite a few occasions by other bloggers and podcasters in the past 12 months and there is one question I get asked time and time again: ‘What would you do differently if you had to start your blog again?’ It’s actually a good question in my ...more

Just a short note on a quick dash home from the hospital to let readers know that ‘Mini-Rowse’ or ‘ProBlogger Junior’ as some are calling him came out of beta in the early hours of this morning. His name is Xavier and he and V are doing really well. Here’s ...more

Chris over at Performancing has a good post on the topic of Do You Have a Post View Problem? where he comments on the fact that many blogs have a fairly low page view count per visitor. He gives some reasons why this might be the case: “Homepage-centric navigation where ...more

A couple of weeks ago one of my fellow b5media directors or bloggers (I can’t remember which) sent me a link to a WP plugin that they thought looked pretty cool. I didn’t have time to really look into it at the time but today have decided to give it ...more

Some publishers using Google Pages have today received an email from AdSense telling them that they are now able to use AdSense in the pages that they create. Here’s the email those of us who got the email got: We’re happy to let you know that Google Page Creator is ...more

Nick Denton has a fascinating post regarding a restructuring of the Gawker blog network – it’s called Battening down and in it Nick outlines some of the changes Gawker is making (ending two blogs and reshuffling staff on four others. The reasons for the changes are five-fold: Decreases in Advertising ...more

In the last week I had a post which has been on a real journey. It’s a post on how to photograph fireworks that I’ve mentioned already when I spoke last week about Using Digg to Improve your Content but a post that since this time has continued to evolve. ...more

Yesterday I got a new toy – an iSight webcam.What follows is a little video I made with it describing ‘a day in the life of me’. It’s nothing to serious and not the best quality video I’ve ever made (it was a little dark in the room) – but ...more