Written on January 30th, 2006 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse

Improving the Readability of Your Comments Section

Blog Design 5 comments

I love it when bloggers get on a ‘hot streak’ with their blogs and write multiple link worthy posts in a short period of time. Rachel’s blog is hot right now in my opinion (I seem to be linking to her a lot) and today she’s written an interesting post on Improving the readability of […]

Written on January 29th, 2006 at 11:01 pm by Darren Rowse

AdSense Revenue Sharing Sites

Adsense 52 comments

AdMoolah has put together a useful list of links if you’re looking for sites that allow you to contribute content in return for displaying AdSense ads with your publisher code imbedded into them.

Probably the most well known of these is Digital Point’s Forums which all participants can submit their AdSense publisher code to. The more […]

Written on January 28th, 2006 at 04:01 pm by Darren Rowse

AdSense Chinese New Year Ads Reported

Adsense 6 comments

Best HYIP Investment Program is seeing what could be Chinese New Year Year of the Dog images in their AdSense ads.

I wondering how many other seasonal AdSense ads publishers who have signed up for them will be sing in over the next year cycle. Has anyone else seen any? I’m yet to see them on […]

Written on January 28th, 2006 at 03:01 pm by Darren Rowse

Blogger Cruise Adds Speakers

Pro Blogging News 15 comments

I just checked out the Blog Cruise homepage again and noticed that there are new speakers in the list. Headlining it now is Robert Scoble. Also added since last time I looked are Toby Bloomberg, Dave Taylor and John Nardini. The full list is:

Robert Scoble
Toby Bloomberg
Dave Taylor
B.L. Ochman
Jeremy Wright
John Nardini
Jim Turner
Scott Goldblatt
Tris Hussey

A few readers […]

Written on January 28th, 2006 at 03:01 pm by Darren Rowse

AdSense Maintenance Underway

Adsense 5 comments

The AdSense login page has been out of action for most publishers for the last hour or so. Don’t panic - this happens from time to time and usually just means they are either doing maintenance or are upgrading some component of their system.

I seem to remember reading somewhere in the last 24 hours that […]

Written on January 28th, 2006 at 03:01 pm by Darren Rowse

Creating PDFs in OSX

Pro Blogging News 19 comments

If any Apple users have any experience with creating PDF files I’d love to hear from you.

I’ve tried creating them through Word vX and it does it fine but am having issues getting the PDF’s to pick up the hyperlinks as live links. All the other formatting seems to work out fine - it’s just […]

Written on January 28th, 2006 at 11:01 am by Darren Rowse

Put your Blog on a T-Shirt - SnapShirts

Pro Blogging News 4 comments

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 along the way to add or […]

Written on January 28th, 2006 at 10:01 am by Darren Rowse

Blog Design Solutions

Blog Design 7 comments

I’m quite excited to see that a team of talented blog designers (Phil Sherry, Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Michael Heilemann, Drew McLellan, David Powers, Chris J. Davis and John Oxton) have just announced their new book titled Blog Design Solutions.

I’m not familiar with all of the authors but those that I know have great blogs […]

Written on January 28th, 2006 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse

28 Million Blogs Given Pro Blogging Opportunities

Blogging Tools and Services 16 comments

28 million (or more) blogs are about to be given the opportunity to blog for money with the latest updates to MSN Spaces says eweek. The latest MSN Spaces update covers a number of areas as well as the option to run ads with Amazon and Kanoodle. That’s a lot of bloggers about to enter […]