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Written on July 24th, 2008 at 10:07 pm by Darren Rowse
TeachingSells to Close Doors 31 July
One of the best courses that I’ve personally participated in on the topic of teaching people how to make money online is TeachingSells – and it’s about to close it’s doors to new members (in just 7 days).
Every time I come to write about TeachingSells, its creators have added new courses/modules to it.
They’ve now completed [...]
Written on July 24th, 2008 at 12:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Google’s Knol – A Wikipedia Killer or a Blog Killer?
Is Google’s Knol an attack on Wikipedia or Could it hurt Smaller Publishers like bloggers more?
So today Google finally opened up and launched Launched Knol (it’s been coming for a while) a place where people can publish ‘authoritative articles about specific topics’. It’s like Wikipedia in that articles can be edited by others – but [...]
Written on July 21st, 2008 at 08:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Blogger Gives Up Medicine to Go Full Time as a Blogger
I always love hearing stories of bloggers who are able to go full time with their blogging so earlier today when I read in the NYT about the author of one of my favorite blogs (Mac Rumors) has traded in a career in Medicine for blogging it got my attention.
“Dr. Kim’s Web site now attracts [...]
Written on July 17th, 2008 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
Do Your Visitor Numbers Look Like This?
“Darren, I have been blogging for 6 months and have tried to build traffic through social media, networking and buying reviews. I have attached a screen capture of the last 2 months of traffic (above) where you will see I have some good days in traffic, but it always flat lines days later.
The spikes all [...]
Written on July 10th, 2008 at 01:07 pm by Darren Rowse
SparkplugU – Training for Work at Home Workers
Wendy at SparkPlugging (formally e-Moms At Home) is today launching a new learning area called SparkPlugU.
Drawing on the expert writers that write for the Sparkplugging blog network they have put together a variety of short courses on different aspects of working at home such as business and productivity.
Courses will be available in a variety [...]
Written on July 4th, 2008 at 06:07 am by Darren Rowse
I’m on BlogTalkRadio Today
At 5pm Pacific time today (10am Melbourne time) I’m being interviewed by Wayne Hurlbert (his blog) on Blog Talk Radio.
If you’re around and have the time it should be a fun interview. I’m told there will be downloadable recording of it in the coming days also and I’ll post the link to it as I [...]
Written on June 12th, 2008 at 02:06 pm by Darren Rowse
WidgetBucks Secures $10M Funding to Expand Ad Network
A quick congratulations to WidgetBucks ad network for announcing their VC funding today.
I’m looking forward to seeing how the injection of funds helps this already promising ad network to grow in what they offer publishers.
Disclaimer – WidgetBucks is a sponsor of ProBlogger.
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Written on June 11th, 2008 at 09:06 am by Darren Rowse
All You Can Eat Blogging and Social Media Posts
If you’ve got a little spare time today and are in the mood for learning about how to blog – you might want to check out Alltop’s Blogging Page. It lists the latest posts of 44 great blogs about blogging. Only thing I’d add to the page is the RSS feed of each blog (so [...]
Written on March 18th, 2008 at 02:03 pm by Darren Rowse
10 Random Reflections on SXSWi 2008
I’ve been back from South by South West Interactive for a few days now and am slowly recovering from the jet lag. All in all it was a pretty amazing experience to attend SXSW – I had a lot of fun and learned a lot. As I didn’t get to live blog during the event [...]


