Written on April 30th, 2005 at 03:04 pm by Darren Rowse

A Blogging Perspective OS X Tiger

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Last night I was in town and treated myself to the new OSX - Tiger. This afternoon I’ve installed it and have been playing around with it - asking myself how it will improve my blogging.

Here are a few initial reflections:

Dashboard - one of the main things that Apple have been selling this upgrade with […]

Written on April 30th, 2005 at 09:04 am by Darren Rowse

Weblog Empire Network to Launch

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Word on the Street is that Duncan (from Blog Herald) new Blog network (mentioned previously here) will be called Weblog Empire - domain name is registered but not live yet.
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Written on April 30th, 2005 at 03:04 am by Darren Rowse

Evergreen versus Time Related Posts

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I finally got around to listening to the last third of the Business Blog Roundtable and was struck with one of the comments that Stephan Spencer (I think it was his voice) said about evergreen versus time related posts.

I’d not actually thought of my blogs and the posts in them in these terms before but […]

Written on April 30th, 2005 at 01:04 am by Darren Rowse

Wanted: Gadget/ tech geek blogger

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Duncan over at The Blog Herald has just posted that he’s looking for a Gadget/ tech geek blogger to work with him on a new gadget oriented blog. He’s offering a 60/40 split (with the author taking 60%). He’s also going to cover hosting fees out of his 40%. This is a pretty bold move […]

Written on April 30th, 2005 at 01:04 am by Darren Rowse

April - Record Blogging Earnings

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April has been a rather good month for my blogging business.

This graph plots my Adsense earnings (from all my blogs) since 1 January to today (without specific figures). As you’ll see, the last two days have been record breaking days. I’m not sure how long this growth can last - but April’s daily average is […]

Written on April 29th, 2005 at 05:04 pm by Darren Rowse

Pajamas Media - New Blog Advertising Network

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Roger L. Simon has just posted anOpen Letter to All Bloggers announcing that he and a couple of others are going to start a corporate advertising service which will sell ads to advertisers ‘en masse’ . There are not too many details but it sounds like an interesting project. He’s doing the project with Charles […]

Written on April 29th, 2005 at 04:04 pm by Darren Rowse

Fun Money Blog Interview

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Jacob, the author of Fun Money Blog and owner of numerous other online projects like cssvault has just posted an Interview with me (update: link removed as the interview is no longer there). In it he asks all kinds of questions including about:

how many people I think can make a living from blogging
what my daily […]

Written on April 29th, 2005 at 01:04 pm by Darren Rowse

Yahoo! testing Dynamic Image Ads

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In a big week of changes to contextual advertising Jen posts that Yahoo! are now adding dynamic image ads to their contextual advertising line (original source of information). Things are certainly hotting up in terms of competition between Yahoo and Google in advertising - hopefully publishers will be the winners).
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Written on April 29th, 2005 at 02:04 am by Darren Rowse

Adsense Workshop - Gizmodo

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A couple of days ago I looked at How the Most Highly Visited Blogs Earn Money and then yesterday I reflected upon why only 8 of the 30 I analysed use Adsense as an income stream.

Over the next few days I’m going to take a quick look at some of the 8 highly […]