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Written on June 16th, 2009 at 04:06 pm by Darren Rowse
Speedlinking - Discount Deal, Jobs, Blogger Group, Free Reports and Interview
Time for a little speed-linking. This time there’s a deal, reports, some jobs, an interview and a new group for professional bloggers.
Professional Bloggers Group on LinkedIn - for people who are or who are becoming Pro bloggers (i’ll let you decide whether that’s you or not).
Blog World Expo is on again mid October - I’ll [...]
Written on April 19th, 2007 at 12:04 pm by Darren Rowse
More on Top Aussie Blogs
Welcome to readers of Melbourne newspaper, The Age, from today’s article on the Top 100 Australian blogs that I mentioned yesterday (the print version also was accompanied by the Top 10 blogs on the list).
A few readers have asked me whether I’m upset by the final paragraph that reads:
“One blogger, who did not want to [...]
Written on December 6th, 2006 at 05:12 pm by Darren Rowse
Online Consumers Spending Up these Holidays - How are Your Earnings?
Clickz reports on the latest stats of online spending this holiday season.
Spending online is up 24% (with last month totaling $11.75 billion) on last year and traffic is up 13% (it seems people are buying more per visit this year).
Obviously those taking the majority of this income are the big online retailers - but I’m [...]
Written on July 13th, 2006 at 11:07 am by
YouTube Comes of Age
We’ve recently been playing with video blogging more. Darren has done several in the past weeks and I’ve got a couple buried around too. The most popular video hosting service around, YouTube, has come under fire recently for performance and availability reasons. It’s a big service. They have done a reasonable job, in my [...]
Written on July 7th, 2006 at 02:07 am by
College-Startup for Sale!
College Startup is a wonderful little blog that I was turned onto some time ago by Darren. Since then, it has been a notable little item in my Bloglines account which was where today I found out that its owner, Ben Bleikamp, has decided to sell. The auction is being held over at the [...]
Written on May 1st, 2006 at 10:05 pm by Darren Rowse
Non English Posts make up over Two Thirds of Total Blog Posting
What is the most common language used by bloggers?
It might surprise some to know that it’s not English but Japanese according to David Sifry. English comes in second with Chinese third.
The interesting thing is that Japanese is on the rise in the last six or so months. In November 05 it made up 31% of [...]
Written on April 26th, 2006 at 08:04 am by Darren Rowse
BBC Continues to Explore New Media
The Guardian reports that the BBC is redeveloping their online presence to be much more new media focused:
‘The BBC today unveiled radical plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim of creating a public service version of MySpace.com.’
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Written on April 18th, 2006 at 10:04 pm by Darren Rowse
Cory Doctorow Speaks
Tonight I heard at the last minute about a lecture that Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing was giving here in Melbourne (thanks to a ProBlogger reader for letting me know about it)
His topic:
‘Offering a remarkable global perspective on the future, Cory will discuss his view that technologies which seek to restrict the copying and use [...]
Written on April 9th, 2006 at 10:04 am by
Mark Pilgrim Gets Back in the Game
Mark Pilgrim is back. Mark Pilgrim was actually one of the early shapers of my philosophy on blogging and left me somewhat disappointed when he left the game a few years ago. It looks like he’s back though, based on his entertaining (as a parent) entry on bath time with his child, one [...]
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