Darren Rowse

I’ve had one of those hours that makes my normally calm demeanor disappear – in fact my blood’s close to boiling point tonight. Warning – this could get ugly…. It happened as a result of three online interactions in quick succession: 1. Pyramid Scheme Advertising – I was IM’d by ...more

The official AdSense blog has just pointed to their newly designed AdSense Help Center. It includes their demo section and a basic troubleshooting section. I’m not sure how much of it is new and how much is just redesigned – but it’s developing into a reasonably helpful resource for AdSense ...more

Regular readers will notice that my email subscription submission form at the top of my left hand menu has changed. This is because I’m beta testing a new email newsletter service called Zookoda which is designed specifically for bloggers wanting to offer their readers a way to subscribe to their ...more

There’s an Interesting post and comments thread over at Mobile Jones where Debbie Jones talks about another site that is republishing her RSS feed without permission and is running ads on the site with some fairly prominent advertisers. This is an increasingly common occurrence and one that I’m asked about ...more

Phil Sim has an interesting post about The little post that could… where he had an influx of traffic to his blog from his RSS subscribers the day he wrote a post that mentioned his new blog design. Getting RSS subscribers to visit a blog is a challenge that many ...more

Yet another place for Aussie bloggers to submit their URLs and RSS feeds to at the new Aussie Blog Search at Gnoos.

There’s an interesting story emerging on Digg with regards to Engadget and their acknowledging of sources of stories. The controversy is around this story at dapreview.net. Whether Engadget are at fault or not I’m not in a position to say – but the story is an important one for bloggers ...more

YPN have just emailed their beta publishers to notify them that their Terms and Conditions were ‘modified’ this past weekend (crazily the link to the TaC in their email didn’t work). Unfortunately they do not say how they have been modified so unless you have a copy of the old ...more

Tangent Time: Here in Melbourne the Commonwealth Games have been on for the last 5 or so days and I’ve been fortunate enough to get along to three sessions so far (Rugby 7s, Hockey and last night the Athletics). We’ll be heading to another Athletics session later in the week. ...more