Written on July 27th, 2006 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse

If I had to Start My Blog Again - Reader Submissions Part 2

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It’s day two of our ‘if I had to start my blog again group writing project’ and here’s the submissions from the last day which will also be added to the central submissions page.

Look more forward than back, two million in the distance by TDavid
An Even Bigger Chorizo by Matthew
If I could turn back time, […]

Written on July 26th, 2006 at 08:07 pm by Darren Rowse

Apple Bluetooth Wireless Mighty Mouse

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Ooh - looks like Apple have just announced a new Bluetooth Wireless Mighty Mouse.

I’ve been waiting for this one for a while to add to my blogging head quarters.
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Written on July 26th, 2006 at 11:07 am by Darren Rowse

Tax Time

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I hate tax time (in Australia we operate on a July to June financial year) - not just because I have to give my government almost half of what I earn (I see this as a responsibility to give something back to the land I live in) but because of the paperwork and because it […]

Written on July 26th, 2006 at 02:07 am by Darren Rowse

How I’d Optimize PerezHilton for Advertising - Case Study

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A few days back the Blogging Times reported that celebrity blog PerezHilton reached 1 million readers in a day this month.

That’s some serious traffic and would be a pretty amazing blog to monetize.

Mario Lavandeira is the blogger behind PerezHilton and by the looks of things his income streams seem to be:

AdSense - PerezHilton has AdSense […]

Written on July 26th, 2006 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse

If I had to Start My Blog Again - Reader Submissions Part 1

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There’s been a great initial response from readers in the new Group Writing Project on the topic of ‘if I had to start my blog again’. I’ll be accepting submissions until Thursday so follow the process outlined here and be included in the list central list of submissions.

Here are the first 25 submissions (I’ll post […]

Written on July 25th, 2006 at 04:07 pm by Darren Rowse

Did I mention I’m Back?

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For those of you who didn’t realize - I’m back from my paternity leave.

I’ve been slowly getting back up to speed over the last three or four days and am getting to the point of catching up on a couple of weeks of unread emails and RSS feeds.

A big thanks to Aaron (who has a […]

Written on July 25th, 2006 at 01:07 pm by Darren Rowse

AdSense Updates Forums Help Pages

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AdSense have updated their advice for publishers using their ads on Forums in their Help Center.

Their update is pretty small - the changes in the heat maps from last time to this time are negligable (see below - the old version is on the left and the new one on the right).

Their main advice really […]

Written on July 25th, 2006 at 10:07 am by Darren Rowse

What do you think of Technorati’s Upgrade?

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What do you think of Technorati’s upgrade?

My first impressions were not that great but it’s growing on me. Their challenge is that they are now tracking a lot of information and a lot of blogs and to present it all in a useful and uncluttered way is always going to be difficult - particularly because […]

Written on July 25th, 2006 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse

If I had to Start My Blog Again - Group Writing Project

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Over the past two weeks I’ve asked 14 of my favorite bloggers what they’d do differently if they were starting their blog again today. Their responses were varied and left us with plenty of food for thought (see their responses here).

As I’ve been posting their responses I’ve noticed quite a few ProBlogger readers have been […]