Darren Rowse

Six Apart has put out a press release in the last few hours annoucing a new blogging platform that they are planning to release early in 2006. It’s code named Project Comet. They are selling it as featuring Community Aggregation, Multiple Streams and Privacy. They write: ‘Combining the weblog publishing ...more

Everyone’s favorite UK Blog Network, Shiny Media, has announced three new blogs. They describe them as follows: HDTV UK – High Definition TV will arrive in the UK next year and HDTV UK is the first website to deliver daily updates of the latest HD news, whether it be new ...more

Today ProBlogger turns 1 year old. Despite its 1465 posts it’s only a baby still. I thought I’d do the normal celebratory thing and post a list of the 20 most popular posts from the last year (in no particular order). Feel free to nominate your favorite ProBlogger moments/posts/series in ...more

Wired News has a post titled Can Bloggers Strike It Rich? today that is getting a bit of attention from bloggers around the web. To be honest I’m not sure why – the article doesn’t contain anything that I’ve not seen written many times in other articles – in fact ...more

One of my favorite blogs to show people when they ask to give examples of innovative ways to use blogs to earn an income is Monolo’s Shoeblog. If you haven’t seen it before you really must go have a look – it’s a blog written by ‘the Manolo’ about shoes ...more

Wow – I just got back some answers to an interview I have conducted with a ProBlogger and I’m really excited about publishing them. Why? Well while I know of a few bloggers making six figures directly from their blogging – I don’t know many who are willing to go ...more

Want to see an enterprising online idea? The Million dollar Home Page is an attempt by one young business student to pay his university fees by selling advertising on a site – one pixel at a time. A pixel costs $1 and there are 1,000,000 of them up for grabs. ...more

There’s a good interview over at PSFK with Engadgets editor, Peter Rojas. It gives a great insight into the inner workings of one of the biggest blogs going around. Here’s a couple of snippets that highlight the type of professionalism that gets a blog to the top of the pile: ...more

Lifehacker has a good guide to weblog comments with the following tips: Stay on topic. Contribute new information to the discussion. Don’t comment for the sake of commenting. Know when to comment and when to e-mail. Remember that nobody likes a know-it-all. Make the tone of your message clear. Own ...more