Comments on: Reflections from an ‘unlikely media magnate’

By: Ron Wilson

Ron Wilson — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:40:48 +0000

I saw that in 2003, Gartner stated online shopping was a 12 billion dollar business. I imagine it has grown since then….

By: Laughing Machine

Laughing Machine — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:26:21 +0000

Great Its Nearly Impossible For Some Peoples Round Here

By: Cameron Reilly

Cameron Reilly — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:04:33 +0000

Congrats buddy! Even though I spent two hours with Tom as well, I don’t begrudge you the publicity. If anyone deserves it, it’s you! Love the above photo too. Nicely done!

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:54:08 +0000

Paul – very very true.

By: Chris Ramsey

Chris Ramsey — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:26:50 +0000

Web 2.0 , you mentioned that in this post. Just out of curiosity, do you support this regime?

By: Paul Montgomery

Paul Montgomery — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:08:57 +0000

Like jim, I find that the main effect of things like this is to please one’s relatives. You can yap at them until you’re blue in the face about how you’re subverting paradigms and innovating business models, but get your mug in the paper and that is all they understand.

By: jim

jim — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:37:38 +0000

Congrats again, that’s awesome. My parents got a huge kick when I appeared in the NY Times.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:06:14 +0000

Congrats Darren, good to see that there can be positive publicity in the mainstream media.

By: » More on the SMH article duncanriley.com

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By: Blog Network Watch

Blog Network Watch — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:23:47 +0000

Sydney Morning Herald profiles Bloggers

The Sydney Morning Herald published a story yesterday highlighting several bloggers, including Darren Rowse, Duncan Riley, and others at b5mediaRowse started blogging in late 2002 as a way of communicating with fellow believers from his experimental Ba…

By: ShaiCoggins.com

ShaiCoggins.com — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:32:57 +0000

b5media on The Sydney Morning Herald

'Just found out that b5media (the blogging network I run with 3 fab guys) --- has been featured in today's issue of The Sydney Morning Herald. The article, Online buying frenzy as big business swoops on sites by Tom Burton looks a…

By: DaEMoN

DaEMoN — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:01:10 +0000

Congratulations, Darren!
Now it would be interesting if you posted the increase of Australian visitors to your site.
It would allow to calculate how much a third page exposure in mainstream media actually does affect traffic :)

By: Bubble Flashbacks (SMH reports “Online buying frenzy”) at disambiguity

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:32:17 +0000

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By: Asian Playboy

Asian Playboy — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:30:32 +0000

Congrats Darren!

I’m going to be very curious as to how I’m going to be received when I’m profiled in my city’s magazine. It has a circulation of 700K, but unlike you, I prefer to remain anonymous (thus the use of nicknames and the like). We’ll see how it ends up in the summer.

Again congrats.

Anyways, also wanted to post about something I just stumbled across. Maybe you already know about, maybe ya don’t, but I just found The Greatest Thing Since… uh, Scrambled Eggs? The Crazy Egg Heat Map!

Anyways… It’s a REALLY sweet heatmap software (still in beta) that I just stumbled upon. I suppose it’s similar to Google Analytics, but since I don’t have it I have nothing to compare it to.

It creates a heat map using Javascript by where your visitors click, similar to the eyetracking study that was posted (except, uh, different with clicks vs eyeballs):
http://www.poynterextra.org/eyetrack…dvertising.htm

It’s like stat counter on steroids because now you know exactly where your users are clicking, can define those SWEET spots on your page, as well as the odd trouble area.

Board I saw it on:
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=356793

Someone’s blog on it:
http://mashable.com/2006/03/10/crazy…azy-delicious/

Their home page:
http://www.crazyegg.com/

I’m already a bit compulsive with my stats, but this is going to send me straight over the edge!

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:23:34 +0000

brem – it’s fretwork. The house is a Victorian style (100 years old) – it’s sort of a wooden lacework sort of thing…. hard to describe but it’s purely decoration – part of the ‘ye oldie charm’ of the place – or so my more interior designing educted friends say.

By: brem

brem — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:51:12 +0000

What’s those web thingies hanging in the hallway?!

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:39:03 +0000

Josue – it’s always difficult to tell what exposure like this does as it seems to be different every time. I try to take the attitude of ‘come what may’ and try to ride whatever waves that come in.

My suspicion is that it doesn’t bring in a lot of new readers but is good for profile. It’s also just good for the industry as a whole here in Australia (something I’m passionate about supporting). The more people talking about blogging and new media the better in my books – we’ll all win when that happens.

I’ve also seen a little consulting and speaking work come in as a result of these types of things in the past – and have found that it can help with networking with other bloggers.

So yeah – it’s affirming but also a bit of fun. I’m making the most of it while it lasts and trying to build something that can get me through the down times that could lay ahead one day (ever the realist and conservative planner).

By: Josue

Josue — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:13:49 +0000

Yahoooooo!! =) Good for ya, Darren!

Tell us, how do you feel about it? Do you see it just from a busniess perspective? Do you feel affirmed?

Where do you think this is going to have more impact in you? In your business (all tech blogs you have) or in your capacity as a problogger guru?

By: Andy Wibbels

Andy Wibbels — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:40:55 +0000

ROCK OUT!

By: Mini Guerrilla

Mini Guerrilla — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 04:38:50 +0000

Pro Blogger Blogger in the News

If you haven’t heard all ready. Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.Net got written about in the Sydney Morning Herald.It is nice to see a cross over between the online and offline world. Especially in the media. I think that will be more of a crossover in the…