Darren Rowse

Just a quick note to remind those who are thinking of submitting a T-Shirt design to the competition I’m running that you are about to run out of time as entries close on 31 July – details of prizes and guidelines are here. I’ve had more submissions than what has ...more

Taughnee Stone writes that she’s starting a new Pro Blog – the Alaska Blog and writes an interesting post about the first four days blogging and the response that she’s had so far. At the bottom of her post are some good reflections of what she’s learned from the experience ...more

Digital Point’s forums has an interesting post announcing an Adsense plugin for WordPress with the following features. * Define unlimited AdSense ad styles for use in your WordPress blog posts. * Use multiple, different AdSense blocks within a single post. * Enable/disable individual ad blocks with two clicks. * Enable/disable ...more

Just stumbled upon an article at awesomeblogs.com which looks at Why Blogs Have Become the Search Engine Optimization Equalizer. It’s one of those mass produced ‘free articles’ that I warn bloggers from using too much – but it does make a useful observation about some of the top sites on ...more

There’s an interesting report at Pew Internet on Teens and Technology which is the second this week that highlights the opportunities for tapping into the younger internet using market. Here’s a snippet of their introduction: ‘The number of teenagers using the internet has grown 24% in the past four years ...more

Cameron Reilly (from the Podcast Network) and I have a semi regular breakfast together and today he pulled out the microphone and interviewed me for his G’day World show podcast. Cameron may just have been desperate for an interview (or maybe he was impressed my deep thoughts on everything from ...more

I’ve been immortalized at in cartoon form at Comic Strip Blog. I’m not sure that I’m really in the league of Robert Scoble and Dave Winer or deserve the compliment of the strip – but it’s definitely a first – an a pretty good likeness at that! See the full ...more

I want to give a prize today to one of the most ugly yet useful sites I’ve seen for a while. I hope I don’t cause any offense by saying that – but the prize goes to Google Ranking Factors. Don’t let the ugliness factor put you off because if ...more

China Economic Net has an article on a Chinese Blogge, Fang Xingdong, who is looking at listing his blogging business on the NASDAQ. ‘One of China’s most well-known bloggers hopes to ride the current boom in personal online journals and transform his blog site into a U.S.-listed Internet giant. “We ...more