Darren Rowse

Jensense reports that MSN’s contextual Advertising program will be called ContentAds. She also says that the beta launch of the program is likely to be in 2006 (although I wouldn’t expect that it’ll be live for everyone until at least next year).

The word over at the Blog Herald auction on SitePoint is that BlogHerald has sold (again). The original sale fell through but it looks like this time the deal is more solid from what I can tell reading between the lines. There’s no official word at BH yet but I’m ...more

Do you Want to Improve Your Blog? Subscribe to ProBlogger Today for Free. As I mentioned yesterday, it seems that a new blogging tool or service is being released every day to help bloggers add a new feature to their blog. It can become quite overwhelming to choose between them ...more

Search Engine Journal has a good interview with Patrick Gavin from TextLinkAds (aff), a way of selling text links on your site that I’ve been trying out over the past two week. They’ve been undergoing an expansion in marketing and growing their publisher list over the past month or so ...more

Yesterday I had an email from Jim Logan that contains a tip that I’m sure some will find helpful. Jim has kindly given me permission to publish it here: Hi Darren! I discovered something on my site that your readers may find of interest. Recently I changed the template of ...more

Warning: Mini Tangent Ahead Last night my wife came home with a book and started a conversation on a topic which I’d been dreading a little since the time we first found out that we were expecting a baby later in the year. The book was called something along the ...more

Squidoo has been live (still in beta) for over 2 months now so earlier in the week I decided to head back over to check out how it was going. As I surfed around I was drawn to their Top 100 Lens lists (they have a number of them, arranged ...more

It seems a new service is being launched every day being aimed at bloggers and today’s startup release is Stickam (not quite live yet but scheduled to launch today). Download Squad describe it as ‘a simple Flash tool for embedding video, pics, and audio in your website.’ They give up ...more

Speaking of Blog Platforms – Vanessa emailed me with this useful link for a page full of tutorials on using WordPress. It’s filled with all kinds of good tips and tutorials on many WP topics, from installing WordPress up, to explaining CSS, to thinking about making comments work well, to ...more