[1] In November 2002, he worked as a part-time minister, a custodian for an online department store, and a casual laborer.

[2] 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.

These two blogs get around 85,000–100,000 page views a day and over $20,000 in total ad revenue a month.

[12] Rowse is a co-founder of b5media, the blog network he founded in September 2005 with fellow bloggers Jeremy Wright, Shai Coggins and Duncan Riley.

Rowse is co-founder of the Third Tribe and founder of the Problogger Paid community.