Written on September 22nd, 2005 at 08:09 am by Darren Rowse

The Million Dollar Homepage

Blog News 166 comments

Want to see an enterprising online idea? The Million dollar Home Page is an attempt by one young business student to pay his university fees by selling advertising on a site - one pixel at a time. A pixel costs $1 and there are 1,000,000 of them up for grabs.

You have to buy them in […]

Written on September 22nd, 2005 at 08:09 am by Darren Rowse

Interview With Peter Rojas Of Engadget

Pro Blogger Interviews 2 comments

There’s a good interview over at PSFK with Engadgets editor, Peter Rojas. It gives a great insight into the inner workings of one of the biggest blogs going around. Here’s a couple of snippets that highlight the type of professionalism that gets a blog to the top of the pile:

‘I personally publish 5200 posts a […]

Written on September 22nd, 2005 at 08:09 am by Darren Rowse

Guide to leaving Weblog Comments

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 9 comments

Lifehacker has a good guide to weblog comments with the following tips:

Stay on topic.
Contribute new information to the discussion.
Don’t comment for the sake of commenting.
Know when to comment and when to e-mail.
Remember that nobody likes a know-it-all.
Make the tone of your message clear.
Own your comment.
Be succinct.
Cite your sources with links or inline quoting.
Be courteous.
Don’t post […]

Written on September 21st, 2005 at 05:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Blog Networks - A List

Blog Networks 7 comments

Duncan has Blog Networks on the brain and has posted a long List of Blog Networks which shows just how popular the practice of linking blogs together under one banner has become.

He’s got a list of 35 so far but I’m sure there are others!
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Written on September 21st, 2005 at 02:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Introducing b5media

Blog Networks, enternetusers Site News 39 comments

The worst kept secret in ProBlogging circles (thanks Jeremy) has officially gone live.

I’d like to introduce you to the project that has done the unthinkable and that has kept Jeremy, Duncan and Myself a little quieter on our blogs for the past few weeks.

Meet b5media

What is it you ask?

It’s a blogging network owned […]

Written on September 20th, 2005 at 09:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Food Blogs

Blog News 20 comments

I was chatting to a couple of people today about blogging (surprise surprise) and explaining to them that it’s getting to be that there is a blog now on almost every topic you can think of. One of the people I chatted with is a big foodie and asked about whether there are many food […]

Written on September 20th, 2005 at 12:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Top Ten Reasons why enternetusers has Slowed Down

enternetusers Site News 34 comments

A number of readers have noticed that my posting frequency has slowed here at enternetusers over the past couple of weeks and have asked if everything is ok.

Thanks for your concern - I appreciate it a lot but please don’t be worried. There are a number of reasons for the slowdown - some of them […]

Written on September 19th, 2005 at 08:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Partial Poll Results - Building Blog Readership Tips Wanted

enternetusers Site News 10 comments

The initial results of the poll that I have currently running in the sidebar which asks readers of this blog what topics they want advice on here at enternetusers are coming in and I am interested to see what seems to be emerging so far.
The runaway leader so far is a request for tips on […]

Written on September 19th, 2005 at 04:09 am by Darren Rowse

Blog Crushes Revealed - Round 2

enternetusers Site News, Blog Promotion 18 comments

Readers are submitting their Blog Crushes thick and fast now. In addition to Round 1’s submissions I have great pleasure in presenting 15 more lovebirds (or love-bloggers). If you want to join their ranks follow the instructions in this post. In the mean time - here are the latest crushes:

Colbert has a crush on Liewcf
Allan […]