Gabbly Chat
14th of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Gabbly Chat

Just stumbled upon this interesting service called Gabbly that allows you to add a chat room to any page. I’m going to hang out in one for ProBlogger for the next little while. Come chat with me at http://gabbly.com/problogger.net update: having used it now for a few hours my initial ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Site Meter adds Outbound Clicks Tracking
14th of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Site Meter adds Outbound Clicks Tracking

There’s news over at the Site Meter blog today that the free website statistics package has added tracking of outbound links to it’s offering. The free version of their service will now track the last 100 URLs that your readers leave your blog to visit if you have the javascript ...more
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Introduction to Blog Networks
14th of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Introduction to Blog Networks

I’ve done a little study in the past few years on ‘movements’ as part of my interest in emerging forms of spirituality and one of the things that I’ve come to know a little about is how new movements often start as fairly chaotic and disconnected entities but generally over ...more
Blog Networks
ProBlogger Wins Bloggie
14th of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

ProBlogger Wins Bloggie

Thanks to everyone who voted for me in the Sixth Annual Weblog Awards. I was surprised to be nominated in the ‘best web development weblog’ as I focus upon such a small niche within that overall category and even more surprised to find that I’d taken out the category when ...more
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How to be Lucky
14th of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to be Lucky

A few posts back I introduced the concept of ‘luck’ as a principle of entrepreneurship but also reflected that in my experience that my own ‘luck’ as a blogger has in part arisen out of decisions I’ve made. I’m fascinated by the idea of people making their own luck – ...more
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Feed Subscriber counts – Ego badges or Useful?
13th of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Feed Subscriber counts – Ego badges or Useful?

There’s a couple of posts over at cre8d which caught my attention today. Firstly Rachel writes about Subscriber count buttons and ask if they are the ‘new hit counter?’ She writes: “On the other hand, some may find that displaying subscriber counts may come across as an ego badge, just ...more
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Welcome to Readers of The Age
13th of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Welcome to Readers of The Age

Welcome today to readers of The Age (a Melbourne newspaper) which today has the same article that SMH had a couple of days back on Online Ventures being bought up (update: it only seems to be in the Age’s online version – not their hardcopy). If you’re here from the ...more
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2Web Podcast
13th of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

2Web Podcast

I just listened to a good podcast at TPN by three of the guys (Nik, Ben and Cameron) from the new Aussie 2Web. The highlight for me was Nik’s description of Web 2.0 – I’m not sure I’ve heard it explained better.
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Be Lucky
12th of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Be Lucky

“Be Lucky” was advice I gave late last year in a post reflecting upon the lessons I’ve learnt as a blogger. “I’m increasingly becoming aware that despite the many hours of hard work that I’ve put into building up my business that many others work just as hard and are ...more
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