Written on January 25th, 2008 at 03:01 pm by Darren Rowse

The 2008 Bloggies - a couple of Familiar Names

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The Eighth Annual Weblog Awards (the Bloggies) are on and ProBlogger has been nominated in the ‘Best Topical Weblog’ category. The competition is HOT. Oh for the days when they had a ‘best web dev’ award which I did ok in!

Also - congratulations to Skellie for her nomination in the Best Australian and NZ category […]

Written on January 20th, 2008 at 11:01 am by Darren Rowse

14 Blogger Jobs That You Can Apply for Today

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If blogging is something that you’re looking to earn an income from in 2008 here are 14 jobs that have been posted on the ProBlogger Job boards so far in 2008.

Small Business/Entrepreneurship Blogger
Couple of Mobile Bloggers
MacBlogger
Passionate technology and photography bloggers wanted
Company rumors & news writer
Parenting Bloggers
Pleo Blogger
TV Show Bloggers
3 Blog Editors
Interest Group Leaders
Science TV […]

Written on January 18th, 2008 at 07:01 pm by Darren Rowse

The Day Feedburner Stats Went Crazy

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Lots of bloggers are jumping around with excitement today at the rise of the Feedburner counters. ProBlogger leapt from around 39,000 subscribers a few days back to 41,000 yesterday and 100,000 today.
Alas - it’s a bug and it seems that a lot of bloggers are seeing their stats are up. There is some discussion on […]

Written on January 16th, 2008 at 02:01 pm by Darren Rowse

Help a Blogger in Need

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Regular ProBlogger readers might be familiar with the comments of RT Cunningham. Richar is a regular around many blogs in this niche and blogs at Untiwisted Vortex. Unfortunately his wife has been quite unwell and he’s facing something of an uphill battle at the moment to get through the next few months.

Richard’s readers got on […]

Written on January 16th, 2008 at 03:01 am by Darren Rowse

Blogging On Expo - a Virtual Blog Conference

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Just a short post to point to an online blog conference that is happening today - Blog On Expo. It is running over 3 days with some pretty good names as ’speakers’. I’m featured with an interview on Day 1 (here). See the rest of the first day’s sessions here.
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Written on January 15th, 2008 at 03:01 am by Darren Rowse

Elite Retreat Adds Brian Clark to Speaker Lineup

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I just heard that Elite Retreat has added another quality speaker to it’s lineup (previously written up here).

The new speaker is Brian Clark from CopyBlogger.

Now I’m really wishing I could extend my stay in the US after SXSW!
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Written on January 11th, 2008 at 04:01 pm by Darren Rowse

Skellie Launches Anywired

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I don’t announce the launch of too many blogs (I like to see the runs on the board first) but today a blogger who is very dear to ProBlogger launched her second blog.

Yes Skellie (ProBlogger’s first staff writer) has just launched Anywired.

It’s a blog with the tagline - ‘work online, work anywhere, live free’ and […]

Written on January 11th, 2008 at 12:01 pm by Darren Rowse

When Good Bloggers Go Bad?

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Gizmodo has come in for quite a bit of criticism on their own blog today with a post Confessions: The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES where they posted a video of how they caused havoc at CES by switching many TV’s on and off using an IR clicker.

The prank was done and posted in […]

Written on January 9th, 2008 at 12:01 pm by Darren Rowse

Elite Retreat San Francisco

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I rarely promote conferences that I’m not attending - but in the case of Elite Retreat I make an exception because it’s a concept that I believe in strongly and it’s something that I’ve been a part of previously.

Last year I was a speaker on their last San Francisco Retreat and it was an amazing […]