Written on March 18th, 2006 at 12:03 am by Darren Rowse

A Negative Blogosphere?

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Fascinating post over at Scobleizer on The new A list - some reflections by Robert on how he sees the the new breed of bloggers coming through treating his mate Dave Winer who recently announced he’s looking at stepping away from blogging. He describes this new ‘A-list’ of bloggers as a lynch mob.

“No one kept […]

Written on March 14th, 2006 at 11:03 pm by Darren Rowse

WeSmirch launched by Memeorandum

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The team behind the popular memeorandum and tech.memeorandum have announced a new site ‘WeSmirch‘ which takes the format of their other popular sites and applies it to tracking gossip and celebrity blogs. I know lots of bloggers who will be doing their best to to get picked up by this one.
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Written on December 5th, 2005 at 03:12 pm by Darren Rowse

The 2005 Weblog Awards Finalists Announced

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The Weblog Awards for 2005 have posted nominations and voting will start sometime in the next 24 hours. Congrats to all the nominations (there’s a lot to wade through).

There’s a lot of quality blogs in the list as usual, I always enjoy these awards for finding new blogs that I’d not stumbled upon before.

Diverting to […]

Written on September 22nd, 2005 at 08:09 am by Darren Rowse

The Million Dollar Homepage

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Want to see an enterprising online idea? The Million dollar Home Page is an attempt by one young business student to pay his university fees by selling advertising on a site - one pixel at a time. A pixel costs $1 and there are 1,000,000 of them up for grabs.

You have to buy them in […]

Written on September 20th, 2005 at 09:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Food Blogs

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I was chatting to a couple of people today about blogging (surprise surprise) and explaining to them that it’s getting to be that there is a blog now on almost every topic you can think of. One of the people I chatted with is a big foodie and asked about whether there are many food […]

Written on September 8th, 2005 at 11:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Travelator Blogging

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Warning - Tangent Ahead
The Travelator is a wonderful invention. There is nothing better than rushing for a flight at an airport and seeing that the long walk to the departure gate is going to be cut down by jumping upon one of these moving sidewalks.

On a recent trip overseas we were lucky enough to find […]

Written on August 11th, 2005 at 09:08 am by Darren Rowse

Blogging that Gives Hope

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I just stumbled (via Linkfilter) upon a blog over at MSN Spaces called typical guy, atypical situation - a blog written by a guy named Kenny who is a quadriplegic that is getting massive attention at the moment through his blog. He was featured on MSN Space’s main page and had 80,000 visitors in a […]

Written on July 11th, 2005 at 02:07 pm by Darren Rowse

Helping Nellie

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I don’t usually do this type of thing (although it’s sort of the second time this week), but a very good friend has pointed me to the blog of a young New Zealand person (Nellie) who has started a fundraising blog to help her get back into high-school so that she can enter university to […]

Written on July 8th, 2005 at 07:07 pm by Darren Rowse

When Blogging Means More than Money

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I emailed Cary Miller this morning to ask how hi Cancer NewsWatch blog is going (you might remember I mentioned it a while ago - Cary’s wife Lori is battling cancer and he started the blog (I think after a conversation we had) to do something positive in the midst of a pretty terrible situation.

Cary […]