Expectations of a Professional Blogger
23rd of January 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Expectations of a Professional Blogger

I recently asked readers for questions for my upcoming interviews with Professional bloggers. Bobby Masteria asked: ‘Ask long time probloggers what have been their fears, hopes and expectations.’ It is certainly a question I will ask in the interviews I do – but I thought I’d also answer it here ...more
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Podcasting Consultants
23rd of January 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Podcasting Consultants

Last night I fell asleep thinking of Podcasting – ok I know that is a twisted and screwed up thing to admit but its true. I was pondering the podcasting business model question and starting wondering what business applications podcasting could have. When it comes to blogging the business blog ...more
Podcasting
Pro-Bloggers Website
23rd of January 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Pro-Bloggers Website

The Professional Bloggers Association has just put up their website. Great name – they’ve chosen Pro-Bloggers.
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PicturePhone.com For Sale – $1 Million Start Bid
23rd of January 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

PicturePhone.com For Sale – $1 Million Start Bid

Do you want to buy a domain name? Got a spare $1million dollars? Then PicturePhone.com might interest you! It isn’t a blog and therefore isn’t quite relevant here but I couldn’t resist linking up. You see PicturePhone.com will be auctioned off to the highest bigger on January 31 to the ...more
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Seeking a Podcasting Business Model
22nd of January 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Seeking a Podcasting Business Model

Listening to a good interview with Mick and Cameron from G’day World on a Podcast with the Blog Herald. Of particular interest to me was their comments about finding a business model for podcasting. I won’t quote them directly here (editing out the ‘vulgarities’ that some complain of..hehe) but they ...more
Podcasting
Weighing Up the “nofollow” Attack on Comment Spam
22nd of January 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Weighing Up the “nofollow” Attack on Comment Spam

Is Google’s latest attack on Comment Spam going to hurt Bloggers as much or even more than the Spammers themselves? As I mentioned a few days ago, Google have announced a strategy for eliminating comment spam on blogs by implementing a ‘rel=”nofollow”’ tag which would cause links using the attribute ...more
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Why Topical Feeds Are The Future of RSS
22nd of January 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Why Topical Feeds Are The Future of RSS

Read/Write Web has an interesting post predicting that the killer application for RSS will be to track Topic/Tag/Remix Feeds rather than to track individual blogs or news sources. ‘One of the reasons I think this may eventuate is that blogging is and always will be a minority sport (as I’ve ...more
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The Importance of Good Headlines for RSS
22nd of January 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

The Importance of Good Headlines for RSS

Poynter Online has a great post about the importance of having a good headline in your RSS feed. ‘But what do I do with headlines like “Dramatic change” (which turned out to be about a change in the government’s attitude toward immigrants) or “An unfinished story” (this deals with the ...more
Writing Content
Google to Revamp Adsense and Adwords Program
22nd of January 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Google to Revamp Adsense and Adwords Program

Silicon Valley Watcher writes that Google are getting ready to announce some big changes to their Adsense/Adwords program which will be of interest to many bloggers using the system. ‘As this is being writtten, about 1800 Google marketing people from its offices around the world are at an internal sales ...more
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