Archive for: August, 2006
Written on August 31st, 2006 at 03:08 am by Darren Rowse
Speedlinking 31 August 2006
eMoms at Home writes Top 10 Blogging Lessons Learned on Traffic, Monetization and Life – it’s got some gems in it.
Chitika have a new feature called ‘Globe Trot’ that lets you see what people in different countries see of your Chitika eMiniMall ads when they view your blog.
Dane shares 6 tips for [...]
Written on August 31st, 2006 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
Random vs Planned Blogging
One of the things that I enjoy about blogs is how random they can be.
Within the blogging medium it’s quite acceptable to bring together a collection of seemingly unrelated ideas over the course of a week or more. I guess this comes partly out of the personal blogging scene where it’s not unusually to see [...]
Written on August 30th, 2006 at 08:08 pm by Darren Rowse
aStore: Get Link – Amazon.com Associates Central
Amazon have just emailed those testing their aStore to let them know of three ways to integrate it into their website.
1. Link to your aStore as a stand-alone store (this is what they were offering previously and is as simple as having a link (like this) to your aStore.
2. Embed your aStore using an inline [...]
Written on August 30th, 2006 at 02:08 pm by Darren Rowse
How to Eliminate the Echo Chamber and Add New Dimensions to Your Blog
One of the better posts I’ve seen recently is by Chris Pirillo writing about ways to eliminate the ‘echo chamber’. It’s a post that I’m sure many bloggers will find a challenge (I know I did). Here are his main points (in bold) with a few comments of my own (the non bolded stuff) on [...]
Written on August 30th, 2006 at 12:08 pm by Darren Rowse
Microsoft adCenter Start Inviting Advertisers to Join Pilot – Glimmer of Hope for Publishers
Jennifer has posted that Microsoft have just sent out invitations to selected advertisers for adCenter – their contextual advertising program’s pilot program in the coming months.
She notes that the invitation indicates that ads will be primarily places upon MSN sites but that in using that word there is a chance that they might make it [...]
Written on August 30th, 2006 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
How to Apply for a Blog Job
So you want a blog job……
Well some of you seem to if the amount of traffic and subscribers to the feed at the Job Boards are anything to go by.
I’ve just been chatting to a number of the advertisers who have listed jobs and there have been three resounding pieces of feedback:
They have had a [...]
Written on August 29th, 2006 at 05:08 pm by Darren Rowse
Chitika allow Embedding of ShopLinc via iFrames
Chitika have posted on their blog that their Shoplincs can now be embedded in iframes on your site (if you’ve been accepted into the program).
You can see their article on how to do it in their knowledge base.
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Written on August 29th, 2006 at 08:08 am by Darren Rowse
ProBlogger Hack Update
For an hour or two in the early hours of this morning (my time) the server that ProBlogger is hosted on was hacked by someone with a political message.
They targeted index pages on a number of sites including ProBlogger, ProBlogger’s Job Boards, Digital Photography Blog and a number of other blogs that I’m associated with.
Thank [...]
Written on August 29th, 2006 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
Using Stories in Blogging
Last week I spoke on the topic of Business Blogging at a Melbourne gathering of the Australian Interactive Media Association with Cameron and Ben.
I enjoyed the presentation times but particularly enjoyed a number of the interactions I had afterwards over drinks.
Three of those that I chatted to for a while were Gabrielle, Yamini and Lyn [...]
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