Technosailor.com

Thank you for your patience this past week as I’ve been busily “making things happen”. I’ll get into what those things are but thanks for being accommodating to Jesse and the others who have posted this past week. I’m really more excited than I ever have been in the life of this blog. Traffic is up. Revenue is up. Readership is up. Exposure is up. My fellow readers, the state of this blog is strong and getting stronger. :)

This week has been a busy one indeed. Let me sum it up, if I can.

• Monday morning conference call with SpiderWorks, the editors and publishers of You Can Blog. As a result of that conference call, Part I (Chapters 1-3) has been compiled, read through for flow and content one final time by both me and Jeremy and have been officially submitted to SpiderWorks. Part II (Chapters 4 and 5) has gone through the editorial process with me and await Jeremy’s final thumbs up on Monday. Then that will go the publisher as well, probably on Monday as well.
• Chapter 7 and 10 (both part of Part III) are nearing completion. I am writing Chapter 7 (on this blog, in fact) and Jeremy is wrapping up Chapter 10. That will complete the draft process as we go through the read, edit, flow routine before submitting III and IV as well. It’s a marathon.
• Though not officially announced over at b5media yet, I have been chosen as the new sports channel editor. My job in that role will be to build a channel of quality sports blogs. As an American, I admit this to be a small challenge on a personal level. Our existing bloggers come from so many international flavors, it’s going to be hard to get some good ol’ American sports lovin’. I’ll have to train myself that when one of the bloggers wants to start a “football” blog, it’ll have something to do with penalty shots and butterfly kicks, not a pigskin gridiron “Terrell Owns Rushed to the Hospital Unconscious because of a Brett Favre bullet pass to his face” type of blog. :)
  I can’t speak officially on what exactly is in the works, but you will find out soon and I can’t wait to see how these sports blogs develop. If you have an idea for a sports blog, email me at aaron@b5media.com.
• As mentioned earlier this week, my registration has been officially submitted for Blogonomics. Much more money is needed to make this a reality. Robert Scoble, Darren Rowse, Nick Wilson of Performancing fame…. many more people of whom the business of blogging is important will be there and I just can’t wait to be challenged and even taught. What good is being around these guys if I don’t learn from them. So help me out with a little pocket change or more. Make a small investment in the life of this blog… and this blogger. :) Thanks to the folks who have already sponsored the trip.
• Finally, I want to thank Andy Merrett and all the bloggers at the Bluefish Network for the past 4 or 5 months. Technosailor has been a member of the network there and I hope we’ve done a little something to help boost their profile as they have helped me boost mine. As a result of my increased role as a b5media blogger, and now a staff member, I felt it was really best if Technosailor withdrew from their network. Technosailor is an independent blog and prides itself as thus. It is not joining b5media despite my role there. At least I don’t think it is. The only b5 blog that I run is Emerging Earth.

I’ll be back in a more official capacity as the new week begins. As my blogging becomes increasinly large-scale, you can expect NO entries from me on Sundays and light blogging, if any, on Saturdays. I need to walk away from it on a regular basis. We all need a day off. Of course, guest bloggers may want to step in on weekends. That would be cool, eh?

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Written by Aaron Brazell on February 5, 2006

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