Darren Rowse

James has a good post with some Arguments for getting rid of comments (he’s going to do another balancing one tomorrow on why comments are essential features for blogs). I’ve heard each of them before except for this one: ‘The more comments you have the less links you’ll get – ...more

Two weeks ago I started a series on Building Blogging Relationships with Blogging in Formation and a post on Attitude – this week I’m going to pick up and finish the series with a few more posts. I was talking with a friend a few weeks ago about relationships – ...more

Do you remember Michael Buffington who back in Febuary started a grand experiment in blogging for dollars by starting the Asbestos Blog – a blog designed for the one intention of making money from a blog with a topic which is always touted as attracting high paying Adsense Ads? Stephen ...more

Paul Chaney asks if Categories are important to a blog? ‘How important are categories when it comes to blogging? For example, popular blog platform Blogger doesn’t even offer them, something I think is a flaw in their design. In my opinion, categories are very important and for a number of ...more

Discussion forums around the web today are buzzing with talk of major problems (or are they just changes) at Google. Earlier in the day Google’s cache server was down and more recently people have started noticing Page Rank has disappeared on many sites – including Google itself. Of course this ...more

I’ve been quiet today here at ProBlogger because I’ve spent the day getting my blogs ready for me not being around for 4 weeks in June. As I mentioned a week or so back – I am attempting to put at least one guest blogger on each of my blogs ...more

Business Week reports that Volvo are buying into a $60,000 sponsorship with Weblogs Inc’s new Autoblog podcast. This sponsorship will be for the first six months of this new podcast and is the biggest podcast sponsorship that I’ve noticed so far.

The debate continues over full feeds or excerpt feeds. Robert Scoble is de-listing Chris Pirillo and Chris Pirillo tells him (in an indirect way – along with everyone else who has de-listed him) to kiss his ASCII. I run 20 blogs which between then have thousands of RSS subscribers – ...more

It looks like Google are testing on a wider level the features I noticed back in October on one of their test bed sites. 1871 Media has noticed ads that allow readers of your blog to change the ads viewed to ones of a new topic. It’s surprising on some ...more