Written on March 29th, 2006 at 10:03 pm by Darren Rowse

Fastclick = ValueClick Media

Advertising 3 comments

Today the integration of Fastclick (and impression based ad system that some bloggers use - my review of it is here) and ValueClick Media was completed. If you go to the Fastclick site you’ll now be forwarded to VC’s site instead where you can log in using the same login details that you previously did.
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Written on March 29th, 2006 at 06:03 pm by Darren Rowse

Story Submissions Closed

ProBlogger Site News 3 comments

Wow - I just came home after a few hours out to find that the last couple of hours before the deadline for stories to be submitted for next week’s stories series were certainly busy hours. In the last couple of hours alone there were 15 new stories submitted - bringing it to a total […]

Written on March 29th, 2006 at 03:03 pm by Darren Rowse

Das offizielle deutsche AdSense-Blog

Adsense 9 comments

German speaking AdSense publishers might be interested to find that the official AdSense blog now has a German sister site called Das offizielle deutsche AdSense-Blog.
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Written on March 29th, 2006 at 01:03 pm by Darren Rowse

Google Deletes Their Own Blog

Blogging Tools and Services 19 comments

The Official Google Blog was unavailable a couple of days back. This sent loads of rumors around that perhaps Blogger.com had been hacked. The real story was that they deleted their own blog.

If Google can do it - anyone can.

Do you have a blog backup strategy?

Update - Dave Walker put together a cartoon to commemorate […]

Written on March 29th, 2006 at 09:03 am by Darren Rowse

Ignore it and it’ll Go Away? - Responding to Criticism Part 2

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 12 comments

Late last night I wrote a post on responding to criticism that has had some good discussion. One of the things that a number of those leaving comments suggested is that sometimes when someone attacks you it is better to ignore them.

I’d agree that ignoring can be a good strategy at times - however I […]

Written on March 29th, 2006 at 12:03 am by Darren Rowse

Responding to Criticism

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 20 comments

From time to time in blogging you come across someone who is writing things about you that you don’t particularly agree with. Sometimes they write about you in a constructively critical way and on other occasions they do so in a fairly destructive manner.

If this hasn’t happened to you yet - it will if you […]

Written on March 28th, 2006 at 04:03 pm by Darren Rowse

Ask a Blogging Question and/or Tell your Blogging Story

ProBlogger Site News 4 comments

Just a quick note to say that there have been some great stories submitted in response to my request for blogging stories to be featured on ProBlogger over the first two weeks of April. The deadline for submissions lasts for another 20 hours so there’s still time to get yours in - just keep in […]

Written on March 28th, 2006 at 09:03 am by Darren Rowse

How to Write for Busy People

Writing Content 14 comments

Ben at Inside Firefox has written a great little post on how to write for Busy People (and lets face - most of us fit the category).

I think the six points they make are great advice for bloggers also. Of course that doesn’t mean you can’t break the ‘rules’ and still have a worthwhile blog […]

Written on March 27th, 2006 at 11:03 am by Darren Rowse

How to Create a Blog Theme from Scratch

Blog Design 2 comments

ProBlogger.net’s blog designer Rachel Cunliffe has started a series of posts that I’m sure many of you who love to play around with your blog’s templates will enjoy. In her post Creating a blog theme from scratch she outlines where she’d headed with it. Her 7 steps are:

Consulting with the client
Constructing a wire frame
Constructing […]