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By: Toby

Toby — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 04:21:08 +0000

Adding my Congrats!

By: jesse

jesse — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:38:29 +0000

Just watched it.

The shiny head was a bit distracting, but other than that it was good.

By: Benny

Benny — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:24:20 +0000

Looked great on tv. Couldn’t tell that it was so early in the morning. You handled yourself with great poise and was very articulate.

By: » Darren Rowse on the “Today Show” The Blog Herald: more blog news more often

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 02:22:30 +0000

[...] Duncan Riley> Darren Rowse from Problogger.net appeared on the Today Show here in Australia this morning, and whilst Darren did an excellent job in talking about blogs I couldn’t help but cringe, not because of Darren’s performance, but because I wanted to smack Tracy Grimshaw in the face every time she opened her mouth. According to Grimshaw, blogs are “online diaries”, “online journals” and for memory the words above the dual picture box which showed Darren and Grimshaw side by side read “INTERNET DIARY” in capitals as well. Darrens captions weren’t to bad however, Darren was labelled as a “Blogging Expert” and the follow up lower byline read “BLOGGING POWER”. Darren was then compared to Bruce Willis and Barbara Streisand, so he was in celebrity company, although I’d think that emphasising celebrity blogs demeans blogging in that the blogosphere is meant to be about everyone, not just celebrities. Oh well….given the ratings of the Today show this year I’d be surprised if they’ll be back next year, and now I can flick back to GWN to watch Koshie and Mel on Sunrise [...]

By: jesse

jesse — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 02:16:07 +0000

rediculous site. says I need flash player, IE 6 and WMP 10. I have all three but it still won’t let me watch the video

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 02:00:07 +0000

Well done, Darren!

By: Swade

Swade — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:19:56 +0000

Hey Darren,

Liked the interview, and the shirt.

Well done mate.

By: Toni

Toni — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:46:42 +0000

Darren,

I enjoyed watching your interview.

I especially liked the part where you emphasised the need for original copy along with reminding people that copyright applies to content that appears on blogs the same as it does with other content.

Oh and…. “and pay no attention to Stuart and Martin – you really did well” :)

By: jesse

jesse — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:17:22 +0000

a search for darren rowse gets ya 37000 results

By: ChrisH

ChrisH — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:09:15 +0000

ooops! I entered that wrong in Google! lol. He’s only drifted out to #2.

As Chen said E-V-E-R-Y-W-H-E-R-E

By: ChrisH

ChrisH — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:07:20 +0000

Chen said: “you know what Darren? you seem to be everywhere. I mean E-V-E-R-Y-W-H-E-R-E… i happened to be doing a search on google…”

Aint that the truth!!!! I searched last week for “Who came last in the Melbourne Cup” (it’s a horse race we Aussies get excited about on the first Tuesday of November). And guess what site came up #1?!!! Yep – one of Darren’s! (Tho it has drifted out to #10 this week). I guess that’s the power of a good page mojo

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:29:52 +0000

I enjoyed the interview. Well done, Darren!
Oh, right, Miles, I noticed the accent too. (I’m in Russia :-))

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:22:50 +0000

“The hair isn’t…..”

exactly ;)

By: Miles Baker

Miles Baker — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:11:08 +0000

Very well done! And Very well said. I guess I didn’t notice the hair or the shirt, but I did notice the accent. I’m in the USA. :)

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:08:24 +0000

In case you’re looking for the link? it helps if you just go to this URL and in the search field enter “blogging” …
http://ninemsn.video.msn.com/v/en-au/v.htm

By: Martin (HomeOfficeVoice)

Martin (HomeOfficeVoice) — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:06:50 +0000

You should have worn one of your Problogger t-shirts, maybe a cap with your url printed on it – now that would have been some guerrilla marketing and solved the shiny reflection :-)

When Tracy (the host) asked you about how you make money with blogs you could have said something like “at my blog http://www.problogger.net I discuss a myriad of ways bloggers are making money” and then gone on with the AdSense talk.

Gotta be a shameless promoter sometimes ;-)

By: Mark Lavercombe

Mark Lavercombe — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 21:57:11 +0000

Yeah, Bruce Willis’ blog took forever…

problogger.net looked good though, and chitika should be happy with the exposure the referral banner at the top of page got! ;-)

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 21:56:03 +0000

what’s wrong with my shirt? :-) It’s actually new!

The hair isn’t…..

pity they were not able to put a bit of dulling make up on my shiny noggin!

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 21:50:32 +0000

Martin – you noticed the shirt – I noticed the hair :)

I also thought that they were on a bit of a slow Internet connection – some of those blogs didn’t load all that fast.

By: Martin (HomeOfficeVoice)

Martin (HomeOfficeVoice) — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 21:43:31 +0000

Good job Darren,

You communicated and presented well – sounded like a seasoned television professional. Obviously (I knew this would come up) you had to field the normal teenage/diary type impressions of blogging.

Loved the full screen shot of your blog as they were going to break before your interview.

Just one thing …. that shirt ! ;-)