Welcome Livewire Readers
11th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Welcome Livewire Readers

Welcome to readers of The Age (and Sydney Morning Herald aparently) who may have found themselves here after today’s LiveWire interview (no online version this time – but I’ve taken a photo of it to the left, click to enlarge and read if you’re interested). update: there is an online ...more
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Timing Your Blog Posts for Maximum Impact
11th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Timing Your Blog Posts for Maximum Impact

In the last two days I’ve been fortunate enough to have Lifehacker link to two posts (here and here) on my Digital Photography School blog. The results have been two wonderful days of traffic with not only links from Lifehacker but quite a few secondary links from other sites that ...more
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Making Money Blogging Without an Ad in Sight
11th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Making Money Blogging Without an Ad in Sight

One of the distinctions that I’ve made previously about blogging for money is that there are Direct Methods and Indirect Methods for doing so. Direct methods are where blogger makes money FROM their blog and Indirect methods are where a blogger makes money BECAUSE of their blog. ProBlogger.net tends to ...more
Blogging for Dollars
Alternablog: Mobile Blogging
10th of May 2006 Guest Blogger 0 Comments

Alternablog: Mobile Blogging

This post has been submitted by regular contributor – Aaron Brazell For the most part, when people talk about blogging they are talking about a very conventional style of communication which describes what most of us are used to – a top-down, linear mostly text medium. While this is the ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Some ProBlogger News
10th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Some ProBlogger News

Source via Steve Update: Ok, it’s been 45 minutes since posting this and it’s getting a little out of hand as I’ve had quite a few emails of congratulations, bloggers asking for interviews and a reporter (a Fairfax one oddly enough) call me to do a story already. If you ...more
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Link Lust
10th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Link Lust

Which 3 Blogs or Websites would you most love a link from? Why? I’d be interested to see a list of lusted after links to see what blogs are mentioned repeatedly. Share you top 3 in comments or write a post about it and leave a link to the post ...more
Pro Blogging News
8 Reasons Why New Media is Growing
10th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

8 Reasons Why New Media is Growing

“Why is New Media becoming popular?” After being introduced to a friend of a friend as a ‘full time blogger’ the other night at a pub I was asked the above question by the friend of a friend. He accepted that ‘New Media’ is popular – but was at a ...more
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Plagiarism and Blogging
9th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Plagiarism and Blogging

The Boston Globe has a piece today on plagiarism and blogs which points to a blog that I’ve been reading for some time now via RSS – Plagiarism Today. ”’A-list bloggers don’t see much copy-and-paste plagiarism because their popularity insulates them,” said Plagiarism Today’s Bailey. ”Unknown bloggers aren’t plagiarized much ...more
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Rebuilding Movable Type
9th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Rebuilding Movable Type

Mike’s post at Business Logs announcing their latest design project (a redesign of A Socialite’s Life) has an interesting commentary comparing Movable Type and WordPress – specifically with the dynamic nature of WP and the need to ‘rebuild’ MT. ‘I now realize why larger weblogs are switching to WordPress — ...more
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