Darren Rowse

I’ve been pondering a feature that Yahoo have added to their Yahoo News pages at some point in the last few months. The feature I’m talking about is Y!Q – an in content link that appears on keywords in News articles that looks like this: If you click this link ...more

I’d like to see some discussion around the topic of transparency in using affiliate programs. When you link to one do you indicate that you are benefiting from the link in some way? I’ll kick us off here and say that I do – and I don’t. I probably need ...more

A common problem that many bloggers face is having to work out what to do with a blog that is trapped on a domain that they wish they’d never started it on. An example of this is starting out of a Blogspot or hosted TypePad blog and then realizing that ...more

Steve Pavlina has taken the step of closing down his blog’s comments system because they were more trouble than they were worth. He writes: ‘The main factor in making this decision was the time and energy freed up by not having to deal with comments. No blog comments means no ...more

Steve Rubel announces that AOL are continuing their foray into Blogging by getting ready to announce a deal betweeen them and Intelliseek – the people behind BlogPulse. ‘AOL and Intelliseek on Monday plan to unveil a blog content deal. Sue MacDonald at Intelliseek confirmed that the deal – set to ...more

Macworld reports that Apple have called another press conference for 19 October: ‘Apple doesn’t say exactly what the press conference will be about, but the invitation sent to MacCentral asks to join them as “we unveil Apple’s latest pro innovations.”’ Sounds promising for a PowerUpgrade – I Can’t Wait!

blogging.wurk has a post that compares Typepad and WordPress from a blog network’s point of view. No real surprises with the findings but for TypePad users it might be an interesting comparison: So last week I gave WordPress a try. Fair enough, each blog currently needs its own install of ...more

Congratulations to Mick and Cameron over at The Podcast Network for securing a three month sponsorship from Motorola ‘Motorola Mobile Devices, a global leader in wireless communications, today announced that it has entered into a three-month strategic marketing partnership with The Podcast Network (TPN), the world’s first commercial podcast network. ...more

I’ve been having a few problems with my server the past few days – and one of them seems to have been an issue with getting my last ProBlogger Newsletter out. If you didn’t get it feel free to download it (as a word document) via: Problogger Newsletter 14:10:05-2.doc