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Speedlinking 4 January 2008
4th of January 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Speedlinking 4 January 2008

Some links from my feed reader: Bobs Brain Dump has a useful post – Social Networking Tips and Business Plan. Thanks to JeffRoyce on Twitter for the tip. Blog Bloke has been documenting his migration from Blogger to WordPress platforms. If you’re looking to make the change this will help ...more
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Speedlinking 22 December 2007
22nd of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Speedlinking 22 December 2007

A few blogging links from the last couple of days. Enjoy I’ve recently been enjoying Pajama Professional – a blog by Sara Christensen. She’s been writing some nice posts including The Three Cs of Blogging. Daniel at Daily Blog Tips has written a helpful post outlining 7 Characteristics of Good ...more
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Speedlinking – Celebrity, Awards and Top Lists
19th of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Speedlinking – Celebrity, Awards and Top Lists

It’s that silly time of the year where lots of awards, ‘best of’ articles and ‘top 10…’ lists start appearing on blogs (and MSM sites). This morning I got an email about making the Forbes – Web Celeb 25 list. I scraped in at number 25 (warning – that page ...more
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Speedlinking – 12 December 2007
12th of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Speedlinking – 12 December 2007

A few quick links: Brian at Copyblogger asks Are You Someone’s User-Generated Content? and extends my recent post on blogging vs social media. AdSense have announced a few changes to their Manage Ads feature and hint at more to come. Stephen writes a post on making money online by leveraging ...more
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Work Life Balance – Interview
6th of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Work Life Balance – Interview

Derek Semmler over at Dad Balance has just published an interview with me where we talk a little about blogging, being a Dad and ‘Work Life Balance’. You can read the interview at Darren Rowse On Work Life Balance.
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New Job Board Model Launch at FreelanceSwitch
14th of November 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

New Job Board Model Launch at FreelanceSwitch

Job Boards have been appearing on a number of blogs lately (including ProBlogger’s blog job board of course) but most have had the same business model. That being that advertisers pay for the job listing. FreelanceSwitch is experimenting with a new business model for their job board and announced it ...more
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WordPress to Launch Theme Marketplace
2nd of November 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

WordPress to Launch Theme Marketplace

While in Argentina Matt from WordPress announced that there will soon be an official WordPress Premium Theme Marketplace launched where designers get 50% of any income brought in from a design sold. via FayerWayer (Spanish) and ReadWriteWeb. David at BlogHerald shares some concerns about this development and asks if Matt’s ...more
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PayPerPost Inc Changes It’s Name to IZEA
1st of November 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

PayPerPost Inc Changes It’s Name to IZEA

I just got my hands on a press release that announces that PayPerPost Inc is changing it’s name to IZEA. IZEA will be the parent company for the different services that PPP has been operating including PayPerPost.com, Zookoda.com, BloggersChoiceAwards.com, RockStartup.com, RSSBrief.com, URLBrief.com and BlogInSpace.com. PayPerPost will continue to run as ...more
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Teaching Sells – Introductory Price Offer Ends at Midnight Tonight
31st of October 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Teaching Sells – Introductory Price Offer Ends at Midnight Tonight

At midnight tonight (at that spooky time this Halloween) the introductory special price offer for the newly released Teaching Sells program ends. I’m not sure what the new price will be – but Brian Clark tells me that it is definitely going up to a new price at the deadline ...more
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