How Many Posts Did You Publish On Your Main Blog in May? [POLL]
10th of June 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How Many Posts Did You Publish On Your Main Blog in May? [POLL]

It’s time for another Reader Poll – this week I want to take a look at your posting frequency. How Many Posts Did You Publish On Your Main Blog in May? Pick your main blog and focus upon that. I responded for ProBlogger where I published 88 posts over May ...more
Reader Questions
How to Be an Interesting Blogger
9th of June 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Be an Interesting Blogger

One of the keys to building a successful blog is to build something that is ‘interesting’. But how does one BE interesting? It’s probably a topic that deserve someone smarter than me to explore but it strikes me that one element of being an interesting blogger (or an interesting person ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Leaning Into the Blogging Dip
8th of June 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Leaning Into the Blogging Dip

Do you sometimes feel like you couldn’t possibly write another blog post, even if it was a case of life or death? Does the constant grind of writing to a schedule feel like it’s wearing you down? Take heart: it’s perfectly normal! It’s called a Dip. Many bloggers go through ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Which Social Media Sites Would You Use if You Could Only use 3?
7th of June 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Which Social Media Sites Would You Use if You Could Only use 3?

Here’s a question for the weekend that was submitted to me from Twitter friend philbaumann who asks: if you were permitted only 3 social sites to work with, which ones would you pick? So it’s over to you for your comments. Which would you choose (be it social bookmarking sites ...more
Reader Questions
How Much Free Content Should I Put in My Blog?
7th of June 2008 Daniel Scocco 0 Comments

How Much Free Content Should I Put in My Blog?

In this article Daniel Scocco answers to a question by Jana: Where does a blogger draw the line between putting up free content versus releasing an eBook? I’m all about an informative blog with great articles…but an eBook seems to be a good revenue point. So, should an eBook have ...more
Blogging for Dollars
Top 10 Plurk Users Statistics – What’s the Karma Algorithm
6th of June 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Top 10 Plurk Users Statistics – What’s the Karma Algorithm

As a quick followup to my last post on my experimentation with Plurk I thought I’d do a quick analysis of the top 10 Plurk Users (as currently rated on the Interesting page). They are rated there on a basis of their ‘Karma’. There’s no explicit definition of the way ...more
Social Media
Add a ProBlogger Tab to Your FriendFeed
6th of June 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Add a ProBlogger Tab to Your FriendFeed

If you are a FriendFeed user AND you like ProBlogger – you might want to check out a greasemonkey script for Firefox users that Duncan created that puts a ProBlogger tab to the top right hand corner of your FriendFeed page. It means you can view ProBlogger from within FriendFeed ...more
Social Media
AdSense Announce Video Units for Australian and Japanese Publishers
6th of June 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

AdSense Announce Video Units for Australian and Japanese Publishers

If you live in Australia or Japan you’ll want to check out the AdSense blog today because they’ve just announced that Video Units are now available to you as a publisher. They also mention that you ‘may’ be able to now become a YouTube partner and make money off your ...more
Adsense
Playing with Plurk
6th of June 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Playing with Plurk

Just a very quick post to let readers know that I’m playing with Plurk (another micro blogging/life streaming tool that is a little like Twitter). At first I only intended to grab my names (problogger and darrenrowse) and use them as placeholders but I’m now starting to find it a ...more
Social Media