Darren Rowse

Warning – Tangent Ahead The Travelator is a wonderful invention. There is nothing better than rushing for a flight at an airport and seeing that the long walk to the departure gate is going to be cut down by jumping upon one of these moving sidewalks. On a recent trip ...more

Duncan has just posted one of the most useful posts I’ve read anywhere for quite a while in his post Conclusions from tracking ads where he writes 7 great reflections on advertising on blogs which come after 4 weeks of tracking his ads using a couple of ad tracking systems. ...more

The official Adsense blog is advising Adsense publishers that Adsense stats will be down for six hours later tonight (Aussie time). This is the first time (in my memory) that I’ve ever seen Adsense give official warning of such maintenance – usually they just do it and discussion forums go ...more

Technorati has launched a new service – Blog Finder – a way of not only finding blog posts on particular topics but also blogs themselves. In effect this is a step towards the Niche Top Blog Lists that I mentioned a week or so back. Of course it won’t be ...more

Just a quick note to those logging into the Six Figure Blogging Preview call in 15 minutes. In the past 24 hours we’ve had an inundation of people signing up for this call – it’s been very popular. There is a small chance that we’ll not be able to fit ...more

Here’s another comparison (found at WMW) of Yahoo’s Publishing Network (YPN) and Adsense by someone rotating both on their site (ie every second impression would be getting one or the other ads): ‘I run Adsense and YPN on the homepage of my main site interchangeably to test which is better ...more

Chrispian at Web Dev Source has a good, simple tip on how to find private advertisers for your blog. Here’s the crux of it: ‘The bottom line is that people are out there advertising already, find them and get them to spend some of their advertising dollars with you! ‘ ...more

Dave Taylor has written an interesting piece today on story telling and blogs that has resonated with me. It’s at “Don’t sell me a product, tell me a story!”: ‘What stuck in my head, however, was that his background gave him a unique ability to tell an interesting story. After ...more

Here are a few take home quotes from Seth Godin’s “Who’s There?” Free e-book which I read this afternoon (and ask usual with Seth’s writing – enjoyed): ‘People have a choice (4.5 million choices, in fact) and nobody is going to read your blog, link to your blog or quote ...more