Got a spare hour (55.24 minutes to be exact)? No me either – but if you want something to listen to today while you blog you might like to listen to a podcast interview that Chris Garrett did with me a couple of days back – The Story of the ProBlogger – Darren Rowse. Towards the end of it I even announce a small new ‘project’ that I’ve been working on for the last five months that is going to be ‘released’ at the start of June.
About Darren Rowse
Darren Rowse is the founder and editor of ProBlogger Blog Tips and Digital Photography School. Learn more about him here and connect with him on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
well..dont have time for it..can you post the transcript..or excerpts..
sorry but at this point I don’t think Performancing have plans for transcripts or excerpts.
What about a downloadable version – to listen to on the road?
Or making it available through iTunes?
A podcast might be a good idea.
Smaller, bite size bits.
http://necrofiles.blogspot.com
Look, I don’t have the time to read long posts, can someone make a podcast out of this – err, wait…
Thanks for the link. But I agree it would be good to be able to download this so I can stick it on while im driving. I dont really like listening to things while im trying to work.
Would be great if you did a podcast of it then i could listen when i go for my jog.
Tim, Crazykinux, Garg, Thomas – these are all great questions and ones that I would encourage you to ask Performancing (the site who interviewed me). This is a little like saying to someone who was interviewed in a newspaper that the photo in it should have been color or that it should be have spread over numerous articles – I just answered the questions and left the rest to those presenting the interview!
Giving it a listen now. It has been pretty informative so far.
Very interesting interview, Darren. I listened to it yesterday at Performancing.
Performancing and ProBlogger are my number one source. ;-)
@Darren: if it’s not available as a podcast, why call it a “podcast interview” in the introduction? That created a false expectation, so some commenters are understandably unhappy, including me. I can’t download that interview to my podcast player, as far as I can tell.
Also, I can’t see any comment form on the performancing.com page, or any way to “listen to the interview”. I guess performancing.com is a badly-made web site and I suspect that’s why negative comments are being left on the better-made, easier-to-use problogger site, instead of performancing.com. Give the interview if you want (and mention it in a links round-up), but, rightly or wrongly, I feel that good sites like problogger have some responsibility not to promote dross with a full post of their own.
The comments on this post are hilarious and made great reading while I started listening to this great interview. Some people have no idea.
Dang, anyone have a transcript?
My brow is still furrowed from the comments above which left me somewhat stupefied…
But it was an interesting interview, Darren, and big congratulations on your “new project”! :)
OK, after two silly comments above, I went digging in the source code of the performancing page. It’s a ShockWaveF’d page with a subtle error in the scripts, so it doesn’t display properly on some browsers, or if some ad-blockers are installed.
However, it seems you can download the 50Mb MP3 file http://performancing.com/podcasts/DarrenRowseCGInterview.mp3 directly.
Hope that helps.
The download URL is – http://performancing.com/podcasts/DarrenRowseCGInterview.mp3
Darren, I stumbled upon your project. Mind if I blog about it?
There is a download link up there now. I did consider having a transcript (my wife is a VA) but I thought against it so as not to spoil the surprise :)
Hey Darren, thanks for mentioning the interview. As always, everyone at Performancing thinks the world of you.
Thanks for setting such a positive precedent in the blogging world.
Congratulations on the “project” Darren.
Actually, it was great to hear both Chris G’s and Darren’s take on some stuff. And may I also add my congrats to the “big project,” although I’m also directing it to your wife and son. :)
Oh, and for those that can’t find a comment form at Perfomancing, you need to register if you want to see it.
I wish there was a transcript so I could read it on the subway (Toronto) on the way home!
My fellow on Facebook shared this link and I’m not dissapointed at all that I came here.