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]. He lives with his wife and son in Melbourne, Australia.[2]

In November 2002, while working as a part-time minister, for an online department store, and as 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] LivingRoom is also the name of his Melbourne-based emerging church he co-founded with six others.[5]

Rowse contributes to around 20 different blogs, although he is only actively blogging on two[6], - including topic specific blogs such as the Athens Olympics and the Michael Jackson court case - he runs with other bloggers[7].

His two personal blogs are Digital Photography Blog with reviews on digital cameras due to lack of views of his own photography[8], and ProBlogger which features tips on blogging. These two blogs get around 15,000-20,000 page views a day and over $20,000 in total ad revenue a month.[9][10][3] Rowse attempts to contribute around 25 blog posts a month.[8]

As of January 30, 2007, ProBlogger is number seven on Technorati's most favorited blogs list[11] and number 48 on the most linked to blog[12].

In 2006, Darren Rowse was awarded the Best Web Development Weblog Bloggie in 2006 for ProBlogger.[13]

Rowse co-founded Canadian-based, United States-hosted blog network, b5media in September 2005 where he is the vice president of training and development. The other co-founders were president/CEO Jeremy Wright, vice president Shai Coggins and Duncan Riley (now left). The blog network claims to have over 200 blogs, and one of the largest new media networks in the world with one million page views a day in 2006.[14]

Darren Rowse is the co-author of ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income, along with Chris Garrett (ISBN: 978-0-470-24667-2)

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[edit] Controversy

Some people questioned some of his older blogs as splogs because they heavily quote and reference outside articles [15].

[edit] References

  1. ^ About Darren
  2. ^ About Darren
  3. ^ a b Becoming a ProBlogger - A story in Many Parts
  4. ^ Wendy Boswell: Interview with Darren Rowse of ProBlogger
  5. ^ LivingRoom About
  6. ^ Darren Rowse (2008). How Many Blogs Do You Write On? How Many Posts Per Day?. ProBlogger. Retrieved on 2008-04-26.
  7. ^ Sam Varghese: Living high on the blog Sydney Morning Herald
  8. ^ a b Susannah Gardner: Interview with ProBlogger Darren Rowse
  9. ^ Jason Hill: A blog's life Sydney Morning Herald
  10. ^ Rowse Ad-ministers a one-man media empire The Age
  11. ^ Popular Blogs Most Favorited Technorati
  12. ^ Popular Blogs Most Linked To Technorati
  13. ^ Congratulations Problogger - Bloggie Winner cre8d design
  14. ^ b5media: About Us
  15. ^ Google Whores And Problogger Splogging

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[edit] Bibliography