Darren Rowse

Shiny Media has landed a great ad deal with vacuum cleaner manufacturer Dyson who will be running an ad campaign at their blogs Shiny Shiny and Tech Digest for a new product. The ads look pretty cool too – based on the 70’s ‘computer/TV’ game ‘Pong’. Just another example of ...more

Dave Sifry writes about the increase in numbers of blogs over the past few months in State of The Blogosphere, March 2005, Part 1 and comments on a disturbing trend in the many new blogs that are starting – Spam Blogs. ‘There is a dark underbelly to these numbers, however: ...more

Wow – someone is actually reading what I write! Not only that – they are doing what I advise! Not only that – its paying off and they are getting RICH BEYOND THEIR WILDEST DREAMS!!!!! OK – I might be exaggerating slightly on the getting rich beyond their wildest dreams ...more

Check out this quote from the forums at Search Engine Watch ‘It seems that Google is researching into allowing Adsense publishers to block ads by keywords, categories, and/or concepts. Currently you can only block ads by specific URL. If they go through with this it could be a great improvement ...more

Trevor Cook is writing a fascinating conference paper titled Can blogging retain its revolutionary fervour? Trevor’s thesis is ‘that as the blogosphere matures it will increasingly come to resemble ‘traditional’ media.‘ Its an idea I’ve wondered about myself over the past few months. Some of Trevor’s observations are spot on ...more

In continuing my last post on the BlogAds survey – I thought I’d make a few other little observations – nothing too profound – just what stood out to me as I read through the result. Probably the more interesting responses for me in this survey were: – 92.1% of ...more

Just running out the door for the day (its a long weekend here) but saw that Blogads have released the results of their reader survey for blog advertising. Looking forward to having a look through their results tonight. Adrants summarizes it as follows: 75% are over 30 75% are men ...more

Is anyone else having issues with Bloglines today? I logged on this morning only to find that I could not access it at all. I thought maybe they were having issues and waited an hour or two only to find it still timing out. Now 10 hours later I’m still ...more

USA Today has an article on Adsense titled Google’s AdSense a bonanza for some Web sites which has a few interesting snippets that basically talk up the program. Here are a few grabs from it firstly on Chris Pirillo from Lockergnome: ‘Chris Pirillo, who has a following from his former ...more