Darren Rowse is considered the Godfather of blogging by many bloggers. He is a phenomenal person, which many bloggers are eager to follow this success figure’s track. He is the one who introduces blogging for money, successfully practice it, and set himself as a good example.
Darren was born 27 April 1972. Now he is a blogger, speaker, consultant and founder of several blogs and blog networks, including b5media and ProBlogger.net . He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
In November 2002, while working as a part-time minister, for an online department store, and as a casual laborer, Rowse started LivingRoom.org.au, a blog about living in Australia, religion (mainly the emerging church movement), politics and other topics that he found interesting.
Rowse contributes to around 20 different blogs, although he is only actively blogging on two, - including topic specific blogs such as the Athens Olympics and the Michael Jackson court case - he runs with other bloggers.
His two personal blogs are Digital Photography Blog with reviews on digital cameras due to lack of views of his own photography, 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. Rowse attempts to contribute around 25 blog posts a month.
As of 30 January 2007, ProBlogger was listed as number seven on Technorati's most favorited blogs list and number 48 on the most linked to blog.
In 2006, Rowse was awarded the Best Web Development Weblog blog award in 2006 for ProBlogger.
Rowse is currently the vice president of training and development for b5media, the blog network he founded in September 2005 with fellow bloggers Jeremy Wright, Shai Coggins and Duncan Riley. 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.
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