Darren Rowse

Steve Rubel has started a link blog. I’ve been wondering about doing something similar as there are so many stories that I see each day that I’d love to link to but don’t – for fear of cluttering things up too much here. Any thoughts friends? Would you prefer it ...more

Cameron Reilly and I have had a couple of breakfasts recently and both times we’ve talked about having a Melbourne bloggers get together. Of course with the busyness of life I’ve not done anything about it – but today Cameron has by posting a survey for Melbourne bloggers to respond ...more

I’ve been watchign the Blogebrity Blog with interest this week – it’s been quite an amusing read and a great example of how a blog can get some big inbound links and a lot of buzz from the blogosphere with a little controversy, humor and by listing some big blogs ...more

Has anyone else noticed that their Adsense Competitive Ad Filter no longer has any URLs in it? When I last checked there were at least 15 URLs on it – but today I noticed there were none. Two readers have also notified me that they too have noticed this on ...more

Keith Robinson has a great post on how to Be A More Productive Blogger. He lists 13 (unlucky for some) points that he has found helpful in successfully creating content. It’s a quality list which I think would be helpful for bloggers big and small. Whilst there isn’t heaps of ...more

Tristan Louis at TNL.net does an interesting post today which analyses 5 top blogs (Boing Boing, InstaPundit, Daily Kos, Gizmodo and Engadget) and how frequent and long their posts are. ‘The data became clearer. On that particular day, the top five bloggers created an average of 30 entries, with each ...more

Interesting interview in Business week with Jeff Jarvis this week which examines his move to About.com and how he sees his work there unfolding: ‘Jarvis explained that about 50% of his time will be spent as a consultant on content development at About.com, the service that the New York Times ...more

Vaspers the Grate has an interesting experiment going looking at the last 5 titles on a variety of his favorite blogs. Steven writes: ‘I’m of the opinion that the title of your post is the most important text of the post. If the post title is not good, many potential ...more

The team at Adsense have been busy (as one can tell by my last few posts) – in addition to the icon and combination ads Blog Herald has notice a newly designed ‘Ad Settings’ page. In actual fact a little more digging reveals that they’ve redesigned most of their pages ...more