Darren Rowse

Solo Tees just published a 5 question interview with them – questioning me around the topic of Entrepreneurship and my blogging business. I hope you enjoy it.

It’s the wrong end of the day for me to be digesting much of this article but Is the bubble back in online media? looks like an interesting read over at Online Journalism Review. It’s got comments from a variety of ‘experts’ on some of the recent sales of new ...more

I’ve just started this week’s ‘poll of the week’ in the side bar. It asks: “If you could only use one Ad System which would it be?” I’ve given you 9 of the more popular options that I see many bloggers experimenting with. I know there are others that I’ve ...more

I’d like to take a few minutes just to talk about leaving comments on ProBlogger as the past week or so I’ve had a number of interactions with readers that have left me wondering if we’re all on the same page. I’m beginning to see that there is a real ...more

Blogs n Dogs not only wins the award for one of the quirkiest conference titles but also looks like it could be one well worth attending – with some interesting topics being covered: * Managing your public life online * Blogging and the arts: Web 2.0 independent music publishing, photographers ...more

Jeremy Zawodny has and interesting post where he analyses where his traffic is coming from (ie search engines, bloglines, rss etc). He then goes on to analyze which reader sources convert best for him in terms of his Adsense earnings. It turns out that while Google readers earn him most ...more

I’m feeling quite grown up today – I’ve recently hired an accountant and today we’re getting together to talk company structures, bookkeeping, tax and the like. One of the stressful parts of starting a blogging business has been getting the administrative side of things up and running. I’m not at ...more

Steve Rubel writes about the ‘secret sauce‘ for getting corporate blogs noticed in the midst of the millions of other blogs and corporate sites out there. His advice is: ‘The short answer is, your blog won’t get noticed unless you nurture it. This means – in an ideal situation – ...more

Being away all weekend I missed the Halloween themed Adsense ad units that were apparently going around. Luckily Jen was on the case and spotted a number of different types of them including this one. It looks like Adsense are experimenting with some ways of drawing readers eyes to their ...more