Darren Rowse

Voting for this year’s Bloggies Annual Weblog Awards is open. Check out the best web development weblog section for some great blogs – including a little one called ProBlogger. Of course 50% of you detest blog awards so you’re excused from voting ;-)

The last few years have seen quite a few blog conferences but here’s one with a twist – Blogonomics – the world’s first floating blog conference! I’ve been hearing about this one for a little while now and it’s just gone public – they’re actually running a Blog Cruise which ...more

Top Personal Finance Bloggers Unite to Launch MoneyBlogNetwork I’ve just received the following press release announcing that 5 personal finance blogs have just banded together in a new blog network – the MoneyBlogNetwork. The five blogs forming the new network are: * JLP of AllThingsFinancial * Jim of Blueprint for ...more

I’ve been a little hesitant to talk about this on ProBlogger but in the last two hours I’ve had 30 emails about it so thought rather than responding to each one personally I should make a statement before things go much further. The story is that a blog called AmBlogger.net ...more

If you’re looking for a reasonably simple way to integrate the Amazon affiliate program into your blog you might like to check out MotionMall which is a service that is specifically for this purpose. MotionMall leads you through a four part process of designing your ad unit selecting the topic ...more

In mid December I switched the contextual ads showing at ProBlogger from AdSense to YPN to join the beta test (through b5media’s account which is based in the US). I did it largely as an experiment to see how this new ad network performed first hand. The results of the ...more

This week’s Poll is a simple one and asks ‘How Long Have you Been Blogging?’ Feel free to make a comment on this poll and your answer below if you so desire.

Last week’s ProBlogger poll took a tongue in cheek look at Blog Awards and asked readers to identify their favorite one. The results were overwhelming on two front. Firstly by the number of voters. While polls in previous weeks have had over 1000 respondents (sometimes in much shorter time periods) ...more

It looks like Chitika. have updated the design of their stats pages in the last 24 hours – adding a new menu bar. This is in addition to the new options to view your statistics for specific date ranges. Apart from this newer option to view stats by date range ...more