Written on June 10th, 2006 at 10:06 am by Darren Rowse
ProBlogger’s Baby Photos leaked to the internet
Meg at Celebrity Makeovers has an incredible scoop - she’s published the first pictures of my new baby boy!
This is quite incredibly as he’s yet to be born but paparazzi these days will go to any lengths!
Here’s Mini-Rowse himself:
Very amusing Meg!
Just a quick baby update for the many of you who have been asking.
He’s actually due in the last week of June. He and ‘V’ are doing well.
In terms of actual photos of ‘mini’ - I’ve decided not to sell them to Getty Images but will auction the rights to them in the comments of this post. What am I bid?
update: ok, I really need to make it clear when I’m joking. Having just received an email bid for $2000 USD for the photos and another telling me that I’m a bad father for doing so - I think I need to make it clear that I’m not serious about selling my child’s photos. This whole post was written in an attempt at humor friends - nothing more, nothing less.
32 Responses to “ProBlogger’s Baby Photos leaked to the internet”
Chris Howard
June 10th, 2006 10:46 am
Strewth, what a kid! In the days of cave dwelling, survival of the fittest (and best looking) would have dealt swiftly with that one. :D
Carl Johnson
June 10th, 2006 10:51 am
Cute! lol
Aaron Brazell
June 10th, 2006 11:04 am
Haha. That’s great. Already bought him glasses, huh? :)
katiebird
June 10th, 2006 11:25 am
Cuter than heck! But I’m glad you weren’t scooped on your own little one. Are you planning to post a photo after the birth day?
Darren Rowse
June 10th, 2006 11:36 am
not sure yet Katiebird. Probably will post something.
David Krug
June 10th, 2006 11:38 am
I will make the initial bid of 50 American Dollars for Global Internet Rights to the Images.
chris
June 10th, 2006 12:13 pm
I bid $50.01 for the global rights. lets all hope the kid looks like his mother, God knows there are enough bald men in the world. I can say that cause I am one! :-()
Stuart
June 10th, 2006 12:14 pm
“I will make the initial bid of 50 American Dollars for Global Internet Rights to the Images.”
Damn - big spending Americans - I was only going to bid 50 cents.
Dennis
June 10th, 2006 12:36 pm
Congradulatons. Our first baby is due in late October and things are starting to get interesting. I can only imagine what it will be like when we reach the due date month.
L
June 10th, 2006 1:58 pm
He he. Wow, that’s fantastic! I bid $50.02
Ted Demopoulos
June 10th, 2006 2:11 pm
I bid lots of good will, and I’ll pay for college if I’m stinking rich by then :)
juli
June 10th, 2006 2:38 pm
sorry, please removed the link ads, this is an automatic from my browser, thx
Jon
June 10th, 2006 3:08 pm
He’s got more hair that Dad :)
Trevor
June 10th, 2006 3:37 pm
I’m surprised that he hasn’t got his own laptop yet - and where’s the link to his blog??? Can I suggest the following domain name PreBlogger.com??
Kenny Allman
June 10th, 2006 5:08 pm
Congratulations Darren,
You must be beaming these days.
-Kenny
John Evans (Syntagma)
June 10th, 2006 6:34 pm
OK, $51, right across Syntagma Media, and a special feature for the sprog on Celebrity at Work. Brad and Angie eat your hearts out!
Darren McLaughlin
June 10th, 2006 8:14 pm
That’s a good looking baby there! Worth every penny you paid for those pics too.
Razib Ahmed
June 11th, 2006 12:42 am
Best wishes to you and your wife. Hopefully, everything goes fine with you. Try to give more time and support to your wife these days instead blogging so frequently. Who is taking care of her? Well, in South Asian culture, the female relatives especially mother and mother in laws support a lot during these days. I wish western people had the same style too.
Mike
June 11th, 2006 1:34 am
lol cute geeky baby
"Pink Eyed" Jim
June 11th, 2006 1:50 am
To the other Bald guy, you me and Darren should start a Bald Bloggers’ Coalition. ;-)
Good luck with the bundle of joy, Darren.
Lisa
June 11th, 2006 3:00 am
Ha ha ha ha, too cute! Hope all goes well with the REAL baby, if it’s anything like mine, you’d better sleep NOW because you never will again ;).
EDK
June 11th, 2006 4:58 am
Every well wish for a thriving baby, mother, dad etal. Small thanks for a great and helpful site!
David Krug
June 11th, 2006 7:45 am
I’m always losing auctions over pennies.
Leon
June 11th, 2006 8:37 am
Hope the bidding goes well, but since most bloggers are broke you probably won’t get much.
L
June 11th, 2006 9:07 am
$51.01
I say keep blogging, this line of work is fickle. You need to support your family. Just wait, your wife will at some point assume you being at home means you are “free” to take care of baby. Bah.
Meg
June 11th, 2006 11:01 am
Darren, thanks so much for this link! This is a new blog and the traffic it generated was a huge rush!
I was thinking about your suggestion that you might sell the first real baby photo to the highest bidder for online viewing.
Because we can also assume that you will link to the buyer’s photo, this could be an interesting experiment on what a link from a PR 7 site may be worth.
In our case, we received lots of visitors due to your post, but the big underlying bonus will be the fact that you linked to us - and you are a PR7 site. This will likely make the search engines sit up and notice us right away and to start to index us! It may even give us a PR rating very early in the game.
If people don’t know much about Google page rank, basically it’s based on a logarithmic scale (just like earthquakes), so a PR 7 site link is way more valuable than a PR 6 link.
There are only a handful of blogs that rank a PR 7 and ProBlogger is one of them. So the question is, what may a link from ProBlogger be worth for the person who bids highest for exclusive rights to the first photo of his baby?
Could it be the fastest and most inexpensive way to get a new site to start showing up big time in the search engines?
A very interesting experiment I think!
James Thoenes
June 11th, 2006 1:13 pm
He looks a lot like his father :)
pcunix
June 12th, 2006 10:09 am
eBay has taught us that people make frivolus bids that they have no intention of honoring. It is obvious that these stratospheric offers would never actually be contracted.
Legitimate bidders like me are disgusted by such nonsense. I will make a real bid for the rights: One Zillion Romulan Standard Zirconian Dollars.
I doubt anyone else can even approach my figure. If you are interested, have your people call my people and we’ll put it in ink.
apiwat
June 12th, 2006 5:07 pm
Hope the bidding goes well, but since most bloggers are broke you probably won’t get much
John Evans (Syntagma)
June 12th, 2006 6:53 pm
One billion Zimbabwean dollars and an all-expenses paid holiday in Bulawayo.
Centrerion Canadian Politics
June 13th, 2006 3:23 am
Problogger junior… I see the first post already: “Making money in your spare time: Huggies to Silk.”
I wish you and your wife a safe birth and a healthy baby.
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