Darren Rowse

It seems that there is yet another contextual advertising system being launched that is specifically targetted at bloggers. It is called Chitika and promises to motetize your blogs and your feeds using contextual ads. They offer all the main formats of ads and seem pretty sstandard in terms of design ...more

Leave it Behind has 10 useful tips for building a better blog. Here are the titles of each section: 1. Use Categories 2. Use Titles 3. Publish During High Traffic Times 4. Syndicate Your Entire Post 5. Click Your Own Links 6. Develop an Authentic Voice 7. Tell Us Who ...more

I missed this snippet of a post by Bloglines CEO Mark Fletcher late last year where he talks about the business model (income stream) for Bloglines in the future: ‘Eric was interested in the business model behind Bloglines. Not accepting my usual stock answer of “Volume!”, I detailed that we ...more

‘Traffic to Blogger.com leaped 73 percent (to 1.3 million unique visitors) in the week after the tsunami hit Asia, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. ‘ Read more at CyberJournalist.net: Blogger traffic soars due to tsunami

I’m really pleased to announce a new blogging project that I’ve been working on for the past few days – Depression News – a blog that will report the latest news and information about the symptoms and treatment of Depression. It is still in beta but is at a stage ...more

Business Opportunities points to an article over at About.com on Passive Income that is worth a read. I think most of us would like to get to a situation where we could say our income earning is somewhat passive: ‘Passive income, on the other hand, is income that does not ...more

The Bloggers’ Rights Blog is compiling a list of companies that have fired, threatened, disciplined, fined or not hired people because of their blogs. I’m sure it is a list (currently of 28 companies) that will grow a little more in the years ahead.

I believe that Blogging can make a difference not only to the hip pockets of those doing the blogging but the wider community. This is your chance to join me in such a project. On Thursday 20 January I will be blogging for 24 hours straight with at least one ...more

Comment Spam is a terrible thing. I feel like I’m constantly fighting a battle against the slime that leave unsolicited, irrelevant and often degrading comments filled with links to disreputable sites on my blogs. It comes from the automated bot spammers but also from the small blogger who think that ...more