Telstra BigBlog
1st of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Telstra BigBlog

Australian Telecommunications giant Telstra seem to have just launched a new blogging service in the last day sometime (although I’m yet to see it mentioned in the media yet). It’s called Telstra BigBlog and they are promoting it as: ‘BigBlog lets you share your thoughts, comments, stories, interests and adventures ...more
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Journalists, Bloggers and the Australian Blogosphere
1st of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Journalists, Bloggers and the Australian Blogosphere

Well the MediaConnect conference (Kickstart 06) is over and I’m home again and am in catch up mode (I managed to keep the inbox down to 1200 unread emails over the three days). I found Kickstart to be a worthwhile experience overall. The highlights for me all revolved around the ...more
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ProBlogger Suffers DoS Attack
1st of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

ProBlogger Suffers DoS Attack

Apologies for the downtime here last night – we had a DoS attack aimed at ProBlogger. It’s nice to feel noticed :-)
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Blog Design for Beginners Part 2
1st of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blog Design for Beginners Part 2

The following post is part 2 (of 3) of a series of guest posts on the topic of Blog Design – written by blog designer, Peter Flaschner from Blog Studio. In my last post, I described the process we use at The Blog Studio to design a web site. Today, ...more
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Technorati adds ‘Most Favorited’ Top 100
1st of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Technorati adds ‘Most Favorited’ Top 100

Speaking of Technorati – they now have a ‘most Favorited’ Top100 list which is made up of the blogs that have the highest number of users adding the blog as a favorite. Looking at the numbers involved I’d say that the favorites feature is perhaps not the most used feature ...more
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Technorati Problems Resolved… For Me
1st of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Technorati Problems Resolved… For Me

Those readers who have been following my Technorati problems posts (here, here and here) might be interested to know that it seems that all of the problems that I’d mentioned have been resolved. After a fairly longish email discussion I seem to have convinced the ‘powers that be’ that my ...more
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New Feedburner Stats Will Help Track Content Thieves
28th of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

New Feedburner Stats Will Help Track Content Thieves

TechCrunch reports that Feedburner are about to roll out new statistics that will take their service into some interesting new directions. What interests me most about what they are doing is that they are adding a service that will identify where your feed is being used. This will help to ...more
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What’s Right with Blogging?
28th of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

What’s Right with Blogging?

Earlier in the month we had an ‘open mike’ discussion on the top of What’s Wrong with Blogging? which brought up some interesting things about blogging that perhaps we don’t talk about too much. At the time I’d planned on a second post on the topic of ‘What’s Right with ...more
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Speed Linking – 28 Feb 2006
28th of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Speed Linking – 28 Feb 2006

Sean has done some in depth analysis of his blog readership’s habits Richard writes a thoughtful post on Full Feeds (and I value his opinion as he’s someone who has a large feed readership if his feedburner button is anything to go by Aaron writes a clever Blogging Parable – ...more
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