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17th of November 2006 Darren Rowse

5 Essential OSX Blogging Tools

Glenn Wolsey, writer for Macguide Magazine and author of http://www.GlennWolsey.com expresses his views about the top applications for blogging on the Mac. – Thanks to Glenn for this guest post. Blogging can be a hugely rewarding and satisfying hobby, or in some cases job. But it does have it’s tough ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
26th of August 2006 Darren Rowse

Lists Group Writing Project – Categorized

During the Last Group Writing Project (on the topic of Lists) I was quite overwhelmed by the number of entries. The list that we ended up with had a total of 301 lists. The main problem with the final list of entries was that despite containing a lot of great ...more
General
17th of May 2006 Darren Rowse

Using Posting Schedules to Maintain Momentum

  Maintaining Momentum in Blogging Series Another strategy for planning ahead that many bloggers use is to create a postings schedule for themselves. This can happen on a range of levels (from informal to very structured) but is often a great way to give some level of structure and motivation ...more
Creating Content
7th of February 2006 Darren Rowse

Google GBuy to Rival PayPal

There is lots of news around today about Google’s upcoming launch of the so called ‘GBuy’ payment product and how it will rival eBay’s PayPal system. This has potential to impact Pro Bloggers – many of whom use PayPal in their day to day activities and many who would love ...more
Pro Blogging News
28th of January 2006 Darren Rowse

Put your Blog on a T-Shirt – SnapShirts

Here’s a fun service for bloggers who can’t bear to be without their blogs might like to use. SnapShirts is a T-Shirt company that can make a T-Shirt with a word cloud from your blog on it! They also can make them for different book authors. You have the option ...more
Pro Blogging News
18th of January 2006 Darren Rowse

Sub-Niche Blogging – Lesson’s from a Baker Named Tom

Warning: Tangent Ahead A few months ago ‘V’ and I took a some time off to go on a weekend road trip to a country town in the North East of our state called Beechworth. One of the interesting things about the lead up to the trip was the well ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
29th of November 2005 Darren Rowse

Blog Values – How Much is your Blog Worth?

Jeremy just emailed me a link to an interesting article by Om Malik at Business 2.0 exploring some of the recent sales of web publishers. Of particular interest to me is the analysis of what the acquisition price was on a per user of the sites sold (I’m presuming that ...more
Pro Blogging News
7th of October 2005 Darren Rowse

VeriSign buys Weblogs.com

Well there is plenty of money flowing around the blogging community today with VeriSign buying Weblogs.com for a rumored $2-$5 million. Weblogs.com is (or was) Dave Winer’s baby. VeriSign explain their intentions for Weblogs.com: “First, we want to see weblogs.com remain what it is, and maintain how it works for ...more
Pro Blogging News
5th of September 2005 Darren Rowse

Red Cross Donation Button

Quite a few people have asked how they can put a red cross donate now button on their blog like the one that I have in the upper right hand corner. You can simply do so by following the instructions on Brian Alvey’s Weblog. Found via Jason
Miscellaneous Blog Tips