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Written on March 8th, 2008 at 05:03 am by Darren Rowse
SXSW – Where I MIGHT Be
A few people have asked where I’ll be at SXSW this week. The following is a shortlist of sessions that I have on my ‘might go’ list. If you’re there and see me – do say G’day!
Friday, 7 March 2008
03:30PM How to Rawk SXSW: The Basics (18ABCD)
04:30PM Book Reading: Radically Transparent: Monitoring & Managing Reputations [...]
Written on March 8th, 2008 at 02:03 am by Darren Rowse
Elite Retreat adds Matt Mullenweg
Elite Retreat is almost sold out and the more I hear about this year’s event the more I like it. They’ve just added Matt Mullenweg to the already amazing line up – they’ve got limo pickups for attendees, have a top notch dinner for the first night and Jeremy says that they’re giving speakers Macbook [...]
Written on March 5th, 2008 at 08:03 am by Darren Rowse
Beware of possible ‘Nigerian*’ Online Advertising Fraud
Tony Hung has a post that is worth keeping in mind if you are approached by someone wanting to place display or text advertising on your blog – it looks like Nigerian Email Scammers are targeting site owners with offers to buy advertising. They send them a check (a bad one) as payment that is [...]
Written on January 25th, 2008 at 03:01 pm by Darren Rowse
The 2008 Bloggies – a couple of Familiar Names
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
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
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
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
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
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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