Darren Rowse

Quite a few people have asked how they can put a red cross donate now button on their blog like the one that I have in the upper right hand corner. You can simply do so by following the instructions on Brian Alvey’s Weblog. Found via Jason

Ok – I’d like to start an ‘open mike’ discussion in the comments of this post on a topic that I’ve been wondering how to raise for a while now. I’d honestly like your opinion on this (I’ll keep it as a ‘hypothetical’): If (hypothetically) you started a blog on ...more

TECH has a WordPress.com Review – written on an actual wordpress.com blog. I’ve been invited into the alpha testing also and from what I’ve seen so far it’s shaping up to be a great system. I’m looking forward to seeing what features they add as it moves towards a beta ...more

‘V’ and I returned last night from our mini-break – three days of touring wineries, eating at some amazing restaurants, sitting in front of cosy fires, reading intriguing books and enjoying some sunshine and beautiful countryside. There was no blogging, no email, no spam comments, no trolls, no earnings updates, ...more

Peter has continued his thinking about the Blog Manager concept: ‘Instead of trying to market myself, I’d try to form an alliance with a brand name blogger. Someone who’s doing well, who people know. Someone with a demonstrated history of generating a buck from his or her blog. How would ...more

Cash Keywords has a good reminder that Adsense has a feature that allows you to Create Rotating Adsense Ad Colours which is one technique that can help overcome ad blindness. I think this is a particularly helpful tool for those blogs and websites with a lot of repeat readers. For ...more

Nick Denton has posted the Gawker Blog Network’s traffic statistics for the past 12 months. Warning – these are serious numbers!

Every time I talk about the potential for blogs to earn money I generally get a lot of feedback from readers. Much of it is pretty balanced but there are two other types of responses that within hours of my most recent announcement I had in my inbox: readers telling ...more

One of the most common questions I get asked when people hear about my blogging earnings is ‘how long has it taken’ to get as far as I have? The short answer is that it’s taken a considerable amount of time. I’ve been blogging since November 2002 and started to ...more