Archive for Blog News
Written on July 11th, 2005 at 02:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Helping Nellie
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
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 [...]
Written on June 25th, 2005 at 04:06 am by Tris Hussey
Big news from Gnomedex
Probably lots of the guest bloggers are going to write more and better about this, but the big news from Microsoft today is that RSS will be natively supported in Longhorn. We also got the first public preview of IE 7 here at Gnomedex. And the API and information will be released under a Creative Commons [...]
Written on June 20th, 2005 at 12:06 pm by JimKukral
Looking For Online Revenue Bloggers – ReveNews
ReveNews is a trusted, unbiased source focusing on Internet related industries such as online marketing, SEM, affiliate marketing, retail (e-commerce), analytics, spyware, blogging and much more. ReveNews authors consist of highly respected thinkers, commentators and business people who have real experience and insight. ReveNews readers include industry gurus, top-level executives and CEO’s, plus many of [...]
Written on June 6th, 2005 at 01:06 pm by JimKukral
Blogging Data We Can All Learn From
The BlogKits 2005 Blogging & Advertising Survey is about to close up. Here’s the best part. I’m going to release the raw data from this study on ProBlogger.net next week for anyone to download and analyze as they see fit. So if you haven’t taken the short survey yet, please do, it will benefit us [...]
Written on June 5th, 2005 at 02:06 pm by Tris Hussey
Blog Business Summit II Aug 17-19, San Francisco
Just announced today the Blog Business Summit will be August 17-19 in San Francisco. I’m not sure if I will be attending–I will be at Gnomedex later this month though–but it was a great time in January. BBS was the break out conference for me and Susie. BBS was where both of [...]
Written on May 27th, 2005 at 11:05 am by Darren Rowse
Blogging and podcasting in Australia
Just yesterday I was looking at domain names for a blog about Australian Blogging – I was toying with the idea of inviting a few prominent Australian bloggers together in a group blog to help raise the profile of blogging in Australia (as well as our own).
Today Trevor Cook emails me to tell me about [...]
Written on May 16th, 2005 at 11:05 am by Darren Rowse
Bloggers Under Attack from German Spammers?
I’m glad to see I’m not the only one getting hundreds of German spam emails at the moment. Steve thinks there might be a blog link to the issue – or maybe its just that bloggers are talking about it more than others because they have the vehicle (their blogs) to do so.
Update: The Australian [...]
Written on March 21st, 2005 at 10:03 am by Darren Rowse
Yahoo buys Flickr – Confirmed
FlickrBlog confirms the rumors that everyone has been talking about recently – Yahoo! has bought Flickr:
‘Holy smokes, SOMEBODY out there is bad at keeping secrets!! Yes! We can finally confirm that Yahoo has made a definitive agreement to acquire Flickr and us, Ludicorp. Smack the tattlers and pop the champagne corks!
Woohoo! What does this [...]


