Darren Rowse
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Darren Rowse, born April 27, 1972, is a full-time blogger, co-founder of LivingRoom, co-founder and vice-president of b5media, co-founder of the Six Figure Blogging course, speaker, blog consultant, and founder of ProBlogger[1].
Rowse currently lives and works in his Melbourne, Australia home, is married to "V" and has one male child.[2]
In November 2002, while working as a part-time minister; working for an online department store; and being a casual laborer[3], Rowse started his first blog, LivingRoom. He blogged about living in Australia, religion (mainly the emerging church movement), politics, and other topics that he found interesting.[4]
In March 2003, Rowse co-founded with six other people an emerging church, LivingRoom. LivingRoom is a small community who live nearby each other who follow Jesus in "postmodern Melbourne."[5] LivingRoom soon became very well known to followers of emerging church.[4]
Darren Rowse maintains up to 20 different blogs, including topic specific blogs such as the Athens Olympics and the Michael Jackson court case he runs with other bloggers[6]. His personal blogs are Digital Photography Blog with reviews on digital cameras as no-one viewed his posted photographs[7], and blogging tips on ProBlogger, which get around 15,000-20,000 page views a day.[8][3]As of January 30, 2007, ProBlogger is number seven on Technorati's most favorited blogs list[9] and number 48 on the most linked to blog[10]. Rowse attempts to write about 25 blog posts everyday across his many blogs.[7] From all those blogs, Rowse earns around $15,000 a month from affiliate programs[8] with Kodak on his digital photography site, and an Amazon.com partnership[11], Google, and Chitika ads are also placed on his website which earns him revenue. Rowse said in an interview: "There is a growing number of people who are making a good living off it."[12] In 2006, Darren Rowse was awared the Best Web Development Weblog Bloggie in 2006 for ProBlogger.[13]
Rowse co-founded Canadian-based, United States-hosted blog network, b5media with Jeremy Wright, president/CEO; Shai Coggins, vice president of community services; and Duncan Riley (now left) in September 2005. Rowse is the vice-president of training and development at b5media. B5media merged with About Weblogs, which was run by Shai Coggins[14]. B5media hosts around 170 blogs and has claimed that it is one of the largest new media networks in the world.[15] It reached around 1 million page views a day in 2006.
[edit] References
- ^ About Darren
- ^ About Darren
- ^ a b Becoming a ProBlogger - A story in Many Parts
- ^ a b Wendy Boswell: Interview with Darren Rowse of ProBlogger
- ^ LivingRoom About
- ^ Sam Varghese: Living high on the blog Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ a b Susannah Gardner: Interview with ProBlogger Darren Rowse
- ^ a b Jason Hill: A blog's life Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Popular Blogs Most Favorited Technorati
- ^ Popular Blogs Most Linked To Technorati
- ^ Rowse Ad-ministers a one-man media empire The Age
- ^ David Adams: Why bloggers blog The Age
- ^ Congratulations Problogger - Bloggie Winner cre8d design
- ^ Nick Douglas: b5media merges with About Weblogs Blogebrity
- ^ b5media: About Us
