UPDATE!!!! THIS POST WAS ONLY A JOKE.
Apparently someone posted it on Darren’s Wikipedia page, and all hell broke loose.
In order to keep seo continuity I won’t delete the post entirely – BUT I do want to let everyone know that it was just an April Fool’s day Joke. For all of those who say I was early. It was April Fool’s day in Australia at the time. Remember not everywhere in the world is sharing the same day / time that you are.
Apparently some have taken offense to this post, I do apologize to those, including Darren. I did not mean to defame your character or person. I hope this addendum to this post will prove that point.
Problogger is Bankrupt!
Darren Rowse, probably one of the most famous and talked about bloggers in the blogosphere is filing bankruptcy. Apparently, his blog has been a farce, and he was ‘faking it till making it’.
The truth is that he never was making it. The most he’s earned is $1000 in a month, which went to bandwidth fees, and server hosting. His wife is threatening divorce if he doesn’t call it quits.
He has spent his savings, and built up a lot in credit card debt, in order to be able to go to all the blogging conventions, and build up connections which he swore would make him rich, but never really delivered.
He states, that if I fail, then everyone does. Which makes sense since his blog is one of the most trafficked out there. He is the authority on making money blogging, and to find out the Authority is broke, is quite dis-heartening.
This truly is a sad day for blogging, as it – pretty much means that all of us trying to make money on this should give up and go home. Go back to school, or get a real job, at a factory or something.
Wait – why am I wasting my time writing this post then? I quit!
Good Blog. I will continue reading it in the future. Nice layout too.
Aaron Wakling
I hope this is an April Fools Joke or I might as well close down the shop when it comes to blogging.
I really hope this is just an April Fools joke because I’m counting on the stories of six figure bloggers to entice people to my site! This would be a big letdown.
I’ll let you know if it is – on April 2nd.. lol.
Oh. Umm. Really? I hope this is an April Fools… If so, then you really need to stop being an idiot; this post will make you legally liable for discrediting Darren, and you’re a day out.
Sorry, you lack humor – Darren himself has a sense of humor, and I’m sure he would say ‘Good one’, Perhaps you should join his Pay Per Tweet program. http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/04/01/problogger-launches-paypertweet/
Also just because it isn’t April 1, here in the USA, doesn’t mean it’s not in Australia.
Happy april fools to you too.
Patrick,
You are brilliant! I saw the headline on technorati and RACED over here. Then halfway through I realized…hey, isn’t it about…oh…April 1st-ish where Darren lives? Ha!
Also, I love stupid Americans who think that whatever time zone they are in is the “real time.” I liked your reply to Mr. Shamess, though: join pay-per-tweet. That’s effing awesome! LOL!
Thanks for a great laugh, Patrick. You have some seriously killer linkbait here. Congrats!
Sara
@Sara, thanks for the kind words- I’m glad you liked the post. Yeah – the funny thing is – being the money hungry blogger that I am – I tried to join Pay Per Tweet lmao. I can’t believe I fell for it!
Do you think anyone would buy “John Chow in Gay Love Triangle”? I’m pretty handy with photoshop. LOL!
Sara
P.S. For anyone else around here who might lack a sense of humor, I have nothing against gays. I am, in fact, a lesbian. I just think it would make great April Fools linkbait.
HAha – I was thinkin’ John Chow giving up his website – but the gay love triangle is even better. Maybe you could have his lover be that guest poster on his blog, that a lot of people don’t like.. lol
I’m a bit surprised you didn’t make this one about John Chow. Oh well. Nice blog
@jeremy I had one for johnchow – I just forgot to post it.
It was going to be about him giving his blog away – to the person with the best reason why they should receive it.
Well, Patrick, you may have picked up by now from Twitter that Darren is decidedly not amused. Are you following him there?
@Des Walsh – Yeah – I picked that up – but i think the fire has been controlled and put out – thanks for letting me know about it
You’re correct about time zones, but I (wrongly) assumed that most people set their article posting times to be in their local time zone.
It’s not that some people read the article on March 31st, but that your own post was dated incorrectly for your own time zone.
Still, you’re not the only one.
As a consumer bankruptcy attorney I would like to emphasize that we must have compassion for those who file bankruptcy. Darren’s filing if nothing else shows how volatile the online marketplace is. Anyone who depends on income from a good Google placement should consider that it could all change one day. From the other reports it appears that Darren was struggling for quiet some time. My experience as a bankruptcy attorney is that people only come to me once they have struggled for a while trying to turn around, but eventually having to give up. On the bright side for Darren perhaps it should be noted that if he used his credit cards for business expenses and those business debts constitute more than 50% of his total indebtedness then he is exempt from the Chapter 7 means test which makes it easier to file.
And the excerpt is still making the rounds out of context.I posted the correction, using this page link, on a forum .Tweet http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com/problogger-d…
And the excerpt is still making the rounds out of context.I posted the correction, using this page link, on a forum .Tweet http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com/problogger-d…
Hahahaha I just saw this and I couldn't resist commenting. That is such a great April Fool's joke, and it was made even better by the fact that people actually believed it! Sometimes people are so gullible!
My recent post Why Bankruptcies Continue to Skyrocket
Glad your still here and a very late happy April fools day to you. I love the range of emotions in the comments…some people need to learn to take a joke wow!
Just glad it is April fools, scared the s** out of me.