Darren Rowse

Also from Feedburner today – the announcement of a new service called FeedBurner Email which allows you to provide a way for your readers to subscribe to your blog via email. It’s not a particularly new service (others have offered a variety of options to do it previously) but if ...more

I’ve just been accepted into the Feedburner Ad Network (FAN) program as a publisher. With my moving to publishing full feeds you’ll now also see an ad at the bottom of each post in my RSS feed. These are CPM ads (ie I get paid per thousand impressions) and not ...more

I’m still wading through my unread RSS feeds (5000 unread items to go). Here are a few more links to things from the last week or so: Mark Jones posts about how Australian TV channels have discovered citizen journalism and are exploiting it for all it’s worth – proving in ...more

As I mentioned buried away in my last post – I’ve just started a trial of publishing full feeds here at ProBlogger. I’m not going to rehash my reasons for doing so but wanted to announce it in a post of it’s own so that everyone is on the same ...more

Another thing that Cory Doctrow talked about last night that I’ve been pondering ever since is how he releases his novels for free online as well as in hard copy. He spoke how this has worked really well for him and is probably the reason that he’s sold so many ...more

Nice post over at Seth Godin’s on “Landing pages” which coincidentally was something I was working a little on this afternoon on one of my blogs. I’ll let Seth say it because he’s the master of this kind of thing: ‘A landing page is the first page a visitor to ...more

Tonight I heard at the last minute about a lecture that Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing was giving here in Melbourne (thanks to a ProBlogger reader for letting me know about it) His topic: ‘Offering a remarkable global perspective on the future, Cory will discuss his view that technologies which ...more

Last week I posted that AdSense had made available Direct Debit Payments to Australian Publishers – I was so excited about it that I actually posted about it from the road on my holiday after finding it in my inbox (I only checked twice while away). I confirmed it was ...more

While I’ve been away the Pro Blogging scene has been as busy as usual (in fact I’m sure it gets busier when I’m away). I’m slowly working through my RSS feeds but here are some of the stories that broke and posts that interest me from the last couple of ...more