Darren Rowse

John Battelle also has a great column over at Technology Review that puts forward an idea called Publisher Driven Advertising (PDA). It is an alternative to the traditional approach to advertising where advertisers hold much of the power in the relationship between audience, publisher and advertiser. John argues that with ...more

Some of the predictions for 2005 in John Battelle’s Searchblog are worth a read for pro blogging types looking into the crystal ball. Here is a taste of the first three: ‘1….We’ll all work on figuring out ways to stick to our principles and get paid at the same time, ...more

Online Business Opportunity is predicting profits will result for Adsense users after the 60 Minutes show on Google tonight in the States. They say watch out for a rise in earnings due to: ‘- The price per click will rise across all products and services – AdSense advertisers will be ...more

The Multi Lingual Blog (Blogos) has an interesting post examinging Translation in the Blogosphere. ‘Now that millions of individuals around the world are being empowered, if that’s the right expression, by blog software to file reports from sites that the news media cannot always reach, or expose and share their ...more

Blog for Fun and Profit (who has posted some good articles over the past month or so) has a good post on 5 Important Reasons Why Blogs Can Boost Your Business here is Reason 1: ‘Your Markets Are Getting Smarter, Faster, And More Organized With all the attention blogs and ...more

The Pew Internet and American Life Project have announced study results into the state of American Blogging. Get the full PDF study here. Some of their results include: – 8 million American adults say they have created blogs (around 7% of the population); – blog readership jumped 58% in 2004 ...more

The BBC announces that Blogs are taking on the mainstream – ‘Web logs or blogs are everywhere, with at least an estimated five million on the web and that number is set to grow…. But this year the focus has been on blogs which cast a critical eye over news ...more

As we predicted a couple of weeks ago – it seems that Google is now doing a PageRank Update. As with the back link update a week or two back this will take a few days (a week or more some suggest) to settle down. Google have chosen to do ...more

The Blog Herald have just predicted their Predictions for blogging in 2005 which make interesting reading (although the first three they admit they’ve been predicting for a couple of years now). Anyway – some of the predictions are quite relevant for those wanting to make money from blogging so they ...more