Darren Rowse

Today I had a nice surprise waiting for me in my inbox – an email from Tiago who had kindly taken it upon himself to design me a favicon for my blog in thanks for the advice I’d given him and others through this blog. For those not familiar with ...more

It’s time to reveal the first 11 Blog Crushes that readers have for other bloggers. Actionberg has a thing for True Hoop Bonnie loves Miss Snark the literary agent Chris Owen has been admiring ‘MrG’ from Genuine Blog Redd is going weak at the knees over Dooce HART loves Comic ...more

James at everyhuman emailed me to day to let me know about a thesis that he’s just published on Blogging. He describes his research as follows: To give a brief over view of the paper, it was written for people who have a basic understanding of Blogs. I looked at ...more

Today in the Six Figure Blogging call we talked a little about Blog Networks and took a look over a number of the bigger and emerging blog networks that are opening up around the wider blogging community and it was interesting to see not only the variety of blogs within ...more

I’ve had feedback recently from readers of ProBlogger that some of you are having trouble leaving comments due to my spam filter being too harsh on you. Please accept my apologies for this. I’ve been under a massive comment spam attack (thousands per day) for a couple of months now ...more

Jen has spotted what we’ve all been expecting to see – Yahoo Publisher Network RSS ads. She writes: ‘The ads are delivered as images and seem to have an autogenerated script of some sort as it contains start and end tags in the RSS code.’ She has screen caps of ...more

Here’s a tip for how to get people to link to your blog. Write lists! I’ve been reminded by this again today by seeing just how many people are linking up to Piaras Kelly’s list of Tips on writing content for your blog. I must have seen 10 or 15 ...more

Things have gotten a little heavy in some of the latest comment threads here at ProBlogger so I thought it might be time to put a little love in the air and have some fun. So I’m suggesting we make the next 7 days about naming our Blog Crushes. Do ...more

My initial reflections on Google’s Blog Search: the basic bones of the technology seem to be there. basically it seems to be using similar (or the same) technology as Google News. they seem to be indexing new posts very quickly which is great. the pool of blogs that they are ...more