Darren Rowse

I’m sure there are many people blogging live from the Business Blog Summit. Seeing as though those of us who are not there don’t seem to be able to participate in any other way (no feeds and the IRC channel is just full of people not there asking the two ...more

Is anyone else feeling they are missing something by not being able to get to the Blog Business Summit? One of the things I love so much about blogging is that it is such a global medium and so accessible to such a large proportion of the world*. This particularly ...more

One skill that I think is vitally important for Professional Bloggers is the ability to keep up to date with the latest trends. So much of blogging is being able observe and even anticipate what people are interested in or looking for and providing appropriate content to meet there needs ...more

I recently asked readers for questions for my upcoming interviews with Professional bloggers. Bobby Masteria asked: ‘Ask long time probloggers what have been their fears, hopes and expectations.’ It is certainly a question I will ask in the interviews I do – but I thought I’d also answer it here ...more

Last night I fell asleep thinking of Podcasting – ok I know that is a twisted and screwed up thing to admit but its true. I was pondering the podcasting business model question and starting wondering what business applications podcasting could have. When it comes to blogging the business blog ...more

The Professional Bloggers Association has just put up their website. Great name – they’ve chosen Pro-Bloggers.

Do you want to buy a domain name? Got a spare $1million dollars? Then PicturePhone.com might interest you! It isn’t a blog and therefore isn’t quite relevant here but I couldn’t resist linking up. You see PicturePhone.com will be auctioned off to the highest bigger on January 31 to the ...more

Listening to a good interview with Mick and Cameron from G’day World on a Podcast with the Blog Herald. Of particular interest to me was their comments about finding a business model for podcasting. I won’t quote them directly here (editing out the ‘vulgarities’ that some complain of..hehe) but they ...more

Is Google’s latest attack on Comment Spam going to hurt Bloggers as much or even more than the Spammers themselves? As I mentioned a few days ago, Google have announced a strategy for eliminating comment spam on blogs by implementing a ‘rel=”nofollow”’ tag which would cause links using the attribute ...more