Darren Rowse

Duncan has been invited to Alpha test WordPress.com and has been documenting his set up and initial impressions of it here. His actual testblog is over here (not much to see yet). I’ve been asked if I want an invitation and have replied in the affirmative and am awaiting the ...more

Sometimes it is really fun to be a small time blogger because it can free you up to do things that a lot of the bigger websites in your niche are unable to do. For example – my Digital Camera site is one of my bigger blogs – yet in ...more

Well we’ve finally made it to the end of the 31 day Project. What an amazing experience it’s been. Including tonight’s last group of submissions we’ve now got 179 blog tip posts on the central 31 day Project page in addition to my own 48 tip posts. That’s 227 blog ...more

Quite a few readers have asked how successful the T-Shirt competition has been. How many shirts have we sold? Is it worth it? I’m not going to go into specifics about which shirt sold how many or even what the total sales have been in the ProBlogger shop – but ...more

Rachel has an interesting post on Advertising on blogs where she compares how much advertising takes up on TV, in the Newspapers and on a pretty well known blog: ‘While online ads are on the increase, are we being bombarded by online ads like we are offline? I had a ...more

I think Robert Scoble is onto something when he says that having a single ‘top blog’ type list is pretty useless. He writes: ‘The whole concept of a single list is just stupid and doesn’t add any value. The thing is there isn’t a single blogosphere. There are thousands of ...more

On of the aspects of blogging that I love is the way in which a link can change a persons life in so many ways (some of them big, others small). This is illustrated pretty well over at Solution Watch which was the first blog mentioned at Blog Herald’s 100 ...more

This is the second last daily wrap up of the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project and readers are making the most of their last chances to be included in what is turning out to be a pretty good collection of Blog Tips. Chris submitted Overcoming Blogger’s Block ...more

It’s been such a long time since I started the ProBlogger T-Shirt Design competition that when it finally ended a few days back it had completely slipped my mind!!! Apologies to the finalists for not announcing this sooner but I’m getting a absent minded in my middle age. Anyway – ...more