Darren Rowse

One of my favorite Pro Bloggers is Manolo of Manolo’s Shoe Blog (I interviewed him here). Manolo just emailed me to let me know that he’s looking for a blogger to help out with some blogging on Men’s fashion which will release him to start working his new blog on ...more

Seth writes a good post on what he calls The noisy tragedy of the blog commons. He observes the high posting frequency of the top blogs going around and writes: Just like the marketers of Oreo (now in 19 flavors of cookies) we’re dealing with clutter by making more clutter. ...more

After posting yesterday a basic Introduction to Blog networks I now want to turn my attention to some of the positives about joining a blog network as a blogger (the negatives will come in the next post in the series). Please note that I’m not writing about the benefits of ...more

The team behind the popular memeorandum and tech.memeorandum have announced a new site ‘WeSmirch‘ which takes the format of their other popular sites and applies it to tracking gossip and celebrity blogs. I know lots of bloggers who will be doing their best to to get picked up by this ...more

I’m told that the Performaning Metrics blog statistics package that I reviewed earlier in the week will be going into a public beta test in the coming hours. Press Releases are circulating on the web and the invitation to officially give it a go is imminent from what I’m told. ...more

Just stumbled upon this interesting service called Gabbly that allows you to add a chat room to any page. I’m going to hang out in one for ProBlogger for the next little while. Come chat with me at http://gabbly.com/problogger.net update: having used it now for a few hours my initial ...more

There’s news over at the Site Meter blog today that the free website statistics package has added tracking of outbound links to it’s offering. The free version of their service will now track the last 100 URLs that your readers leave your blog to visit if you have the javascript ...more

I’ve done a little study in the past few years on ‘movements’ as part of my interest in emerging forms of spirituality and one of the things that I’ve come to know a little about is how new movements often start as fairly chaotic and disconnected entities but generally over ...more

Thanks to everyone who voted for me in the Sixth Annual Weblog Awards. I was surprised to be nominated in the ‘best web development weblog’ as I focus upon such a small niche within that overall category and even more surprised to find that I’d taken out the category when ...more