Darren Rowse

I’ve had an increasing amount of readers writing to me over the past few weeks asking questions on the topic of how to develop a business blog as opposed to a commercial or entrepreneurial blog. Here’s one reader’s question to help flesh this out a little: “Hi Darren, can I ...more

I’ve had quite a few people asking me for my opinion on eBay announcing it’s intention to enter the contextual text link market. here are the basics of it as reported this week by Reuters… “The world’s largest e-commerce site said it plans to provide hundreds of thousands of eBay ...more

If you’re looking for experience working for an amazing blog researching Web 2.0 companies and products then you might like to head over to TechCrunch’s behind the scenes blogs CrunchNotes where they are advertising for a Research Analyst/Intern Position. This would be an amazing opportunity to learn from an experienced ...more

Last week I posted that a number of AdSense publishers noticed a new feature in their AdSense reports called Site Diagnostics’. This feature highlighted pages that AdSense was having problems running ads on and gave a reason for the problem. Within a few hours of my post on it the ...more

Do you have a Blog A List? There’s a lot of talk about ‘A-lists’ in blogging circles from time to time and I generally don’t get into the discussions about what makes a blogger an A-lister or not or how a blog makes it into any such list. To me ...more

I’ve been watching the news buzzing around the blogosphere of Robert Scoble leaving Microsoft to go to PodTech with fascination for the last few days. I’m not fascinated by it really for the news itself (although it’ll be interesting to see how Robert approaches the new roll and whether it ...more

I had an email yesterday from the developers of BloggerKit.com – a nice looking system that helps you to integrate Amazon affiliate ads into your blog in a semi automatic way. The system allows you to trigger relevant ads by simply adding a tag to the end of your blog ...more

A few people have asked me what I’ll be doing with ProBlogger in the days and weeks after the birth of Mini-Rowse. It seems that every time I go on holiday or take time off I do something different with my blog (here’s 7 things I’ve done with my blogs ...more

I’ve been wondering when this would happen but it seems that Digg is soon to widen it’s topic coverage from just technology related bookmarking to other arenas: ‘Digg, the collaborative tech news site, will soon branch out beyond geekdom. At a Web 2.0 panel at the eBay Developers Conference today, ...more