Darren Rowse

It’s just passed the half way point in the ProBlogger T-Shirt design competition and ask I mentioned in the original call for entries I’m today posting the entries submitted so far. Below you’ll see 16 26 entries (although one of them has 4 on it which we’ll separate later). Some ...more

Here’s a quote for the day from Dave Winer for us to ponder – I’m interested in your thoughts in comments below: ‘A blog without ads is itself an ad, interesting to a small number of people. Blogs with ads, like their print counterparts, strive to be as broad as ...more

If you notice your Adsense reports don’t update as normal today (July 22nd in the USA but 23rd here in Australia) it’s because there is an update scheduled according to the Adsense Rep at Webmaster World who writes: ‘I just wanted to let you know that tomorrow, July 22, 2005, ...more

Duncan has a good post over at Blog Herald about that talks about perseverance in building a blog. He writes: ‘Very few people find fame and fortune through launching a blog overnight, but over time most people can build a reasonable audience, or even more, based on perseverance at blogging, ...more

Just to keep things in perspective Jason Calacanis posts that Weblogs Inc is getting close to the number of dollars earned in a day that would take them to earning $1 million in a year. He reports that they broke their previous record for a day’s earnings with Adsense and ...more

Well after a couple of days away speaking on a conference (where I could only access the web via dial up for a few minutes per day) I’m back home to survey my blog’s status. I always seem to time my going away for a few days (or longer) to ...more

I’m really looking forward to trying out Blog Pulse’s new Profiles Tools which promise to: ‘allow users to find more information about a specific blog or blogger—who authors it, how active the blog is, how it ranks in comparison with other blogs, what it’s about, etc. Many people have questions ...more

I just stumbled upon PixelPass – a method of adding an income stream to your blog where your readers pay a small monthly fee to subscribe to your content. Subscriptions are never more than $2 per month and allow readers to access your whole blog. I’m not sure that a ...more

Is anyone else having problems accessing their feeds on bloglines today? I’ve been trying to log in (from a different computer to normal) and can’t see any of my feeds after it logs me in. Interested if this is an isolated issue or not?