Darren Rowse

I’m seeing a bit of buzz around today about BlogBurst TechCrunch advises that BlogBurst officially launches today. BlogBurst is a service that syndicates blogger’s content to mainstream media. The publishers using the content pay a CPM based fee to BlogBurst for the content and the blogger gets free exposure and ...more

Philip Lenssen has put together an alternative Technorati Top 100 list, based upon Google Backlinks. The results are a significantly different for quite a few blogs with Instapundit climbing from 7th to 1st, Talking Points Memo by Joshua Micah Marshall climbing from 35th to 2nd and Daily Kos going up ...more

Paid Content had an interesting piece last week on a move by PBS to start running AdSense ads on 2% of the the pages on their site. It caused a bit of a stir in some circles about whether it was within their charter to run ads on their site ...more

What is the most common language used by bloggers? It might surprise some to know that it’s not English but Japanese according to David Sifry. English comes in second with Chinese third. The interesting thing is that Japanese is on the rise in the last six or so months. In ...more

I just saw my first animated AdSense ad on one of my blogs. I can’t get the ad to show again to show you screen caps but it was a rectangle sized ad that was a series of three images that rotated for the first 20 or so seconds that ...more

Just a quick note to say that I’ve added another 12 tools to the Blog Tools list. We’re up to 67 tools now. I’ve had to be a little selective with some of the suggestions people have made. Just a note – I’m not listing hosting services and am not ...more

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by ‘reading’? Sometimes I get to the end of a day and look at all the unread items in my life (email, RSS feeds, books, magazines, newspapers, articles) and feel quite ill. I have great intentions of reading them all but with only 24 hours ...more

Shai’s posted a series of posts over at About.com on Law and Ethics for Bloggers that cover some worthwhile topics for bloggers to explore on topics like copyright, creative commons licenses and blog etiquette.

There’s an interesting thread over at Webmaster World on whether the exchange rate that AdSense is using to convert income for it’s publishers is accurate or not when it comes to the Canadian dollar. I’m yet to really look into it as it applies to the Australian dollar but the ...more