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Written on December 9th, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
Huffington Post Releases Complete Guide to Blogging Book
In the last few days a new book about blogging has been released – this time by the editorial team of one of the biggest blogs in the world – The Huffington Post.
The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging was released on 2 December so I’m yet to see it (I’ve just treated myself to [...]
Written on October 10th, 2008 at 03:10 pm by Darren Rowse
How Much Do Bloggers Earn? [Survey Results]
Read Write Web today published the results of some research that they’ve done with Top Tier Tech Bloggers and Social Media Consultants regarding how much they earn in that work.
To get the information they approached 20 top-tier tech bloggers and social media consultants, half of them responded (so this isn’t a massive sample).
While the sample [...]
Written on October 2nd, 2008 at 09:10 pm by Darren Rowse
1 Man Blog Sells for $15 Million Dollars
I’ve had four people email me this news in the last 10 minutes. PaidContent is reporting that a WP blog by the name of Bankaholic has just been acquired by BankRate For Up To $15 Million.
Bankaholic has a staff of 1 (Johns Wu) who will remain on at the blog.
If this price is true it’s [...]
Written on September 17th, 2008 at 07:09 am by Darren Rowse
Speedlinking – 17 September 2008
Here are a few links that caught my eye over the last week. I hope something in them inspires, teaches, motivates, informs or connect with you:
Scott Karp writes a fascinating post on how Drudge Report (a site that links out a lot) has a higher reader engagement level than other sites who link out less.
Shoemoney [...]
Written on September 7th, 2008 at 06:09 am by Darren Rowse
What do you get if you put Shoemoney, CopyBlogger, Chow, Johnson, Kukral and ProBlogger in the same Room?
OK – that heading sounds like a bad joke (and it could be) but I had confirmation this week that Jeremy from ShoeMoney is joining our ‘make money online with a blog‘ panel at Blog World Expo.
This makes the lineup – Brian Clark from CopyBlogger, John Chow, Zac Johnson, Jim Kukral, ShoeMoney and myself. It’s [...]
Written on August 28th, 2008 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
b5 Blogger Summit at Blog World Expo – Free Extra Day of Training for BWE Attendees
If you’re going to Blog World Expo and can be there the day before the official program starts – b5media is running a training day for our bloggers that we are opening up to any BWE registrants that would like to attend.
It is running on 19 September at the Las Vegas Convention center and all [...]
Written on August 23rd, 2008 at 05:08 am by Darren Rowse
11 SpeedLinks for Professional Bloggers and Web Workers
I’ve been doing most of my ’speed linking’ on Twitter lately – but here’s a collection of links from around the web for bloggers and web workers that got my attention today:
Screen Casts Rock – Here’s Who’s Rocking Them Now – RRW showcases great Screen Casters
7 Tips for New Twitter Users – From Shel (don’t [...]
Written on August 18th, 2008 at 10:08 pm by Darren Rowse
Join me in Blog Action Day – 15 October 2008
Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.
I hope you’ll consider joining me in this year’s Blog Action Day – The topic This year is Poverty.
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Written on August 5th, 2008 at 10:08 pm by Darren Rowse
How to Get 2500 New ‘Subscribers’ to Your Blog Overnight (and Why I Don’t Really Care)
Every 2nd blog about blogging today seems to be writing about a video showing how to get 2500 subscribers overnight using a Netvibes accounts and an OPML file with thousands of copies of your own feed in it.
I’ve had a lot of people email me to ask what I think about the technique. My response:
1. [...]
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