Innovation Nation – The changing business landscape

August 31, 2006

Here is my weekly column “Innovation Nation” syndicated from “The Deal Maker”. The original article can be found here.
· · · · ·
Innovation Nation: Nucleus for a new weekly column
By Steven Fisher
I would like to welcome you to this new column on “The Deal Maker” called Innovation Nation. So you know who this crazy guy [...]

Read the full article →

VentureFiles has returned from haitus

August 30, 2006

Well, it has been a long hiatus and we are back.
For those of you, my loyal readers who are still subscribed, we will be publishing again and looking to expand the scope of this blog.
We are thinking about moving the blog to a more formal home but for now we will be syndicating our column [...]

9 comments Read the full article →

Darren Looks So Good in that Shirt!

August 30, 2006

My good friend Darren is sporting a new Technosailor shirt! It looks a little bunched up on him in this picture but who could ask for a better model for the new Technosailor shirt than Darren?
You’ll remember a few weeks ago I announced their availability and a contest that I’m running. So far, the [...]

10 comments Read the full article →

A Series on Ego

August 30, 2006

I’m in the process of writing a series of articles that I will prepublish for next week. It’s a bit of a departure from the normal flow of writing I have, but it’s something I’m grappling with in my own life, work and blogging and it’s something I’m observing in the wider world around me. [...]

4 comments Read the full article →

Guest Bloggers Next Week

August 29, 2006

Saturday Morning, I’ll be on my way to Mexico to enjoy the things that people enjoy while in Cancun. In my stead, I’ve got three very capable people filling in throughout the week.
Darren McLaughlin
Darren is a frequent reader of this blog and hails from Blog Republic. I’ve always enjoyed Darren’s insightfullnes. He “gets” it, when [...]

20 comments Read the full article →

Feed Upheaval

August 28, 2006

Behind the scenes, we have been moving all the b5media blogs onto Feedburner to power our RSS feeds. Of course, I’ve been paying for Feedburner for a long time now and so I was a little iffy on the technicalities of moving my account under b5medias and preserving my historical data. Fortunately, it was not [...]

Read the full article →

The Changing Effect of Social Media

August 24, 2006

In life, there are certain needs and social laws that will always be true. For instance, in an economic recession, medical practitioners never will have to fear for their jobs. In any given genre of life, people are always looking to make as much money as possible with as little effort as possible. There [...]

4 comments Read the full article →

Blogging for Pay

August 23, 2006

In case you would like to get paid to blog (Who doesn’t?), Darren just launched a job board and as one of the job posters I can say I’ve gotten some pretty quality candidates already and will be hiring from among that lot.

Suggest to ?
[...]

6 comments Read the full article →

MySpace Blogs

August 23, 2006

Interestingly enough, in the world of blogging, MySpace has actually been a very beneficial thing. I’ve often ranted about MySpace and some of the quality of content produced there. I rail against the idea that people that use MySpace tend to call entries ‘blogs’ when in fact they are not. Example: “I just wanted to [...]

64 comments Read the full article →

The Katrina Photos – Life After the Storm

August 21, 2006

Earlier today I posted an entry calling for photos having to do with Katrina, both during and after. Since then I have setup the site after having a number of conversations with bloggers from the gulf area and others who I respect. More information can be found at the site.
For long time readers (like, really [...]

6 comments Read the full article →

Calling for Katrina Photos

August 21, 2006

We are coming up on the one year anniversary and I’m looking to put together a photo blog to commemorate the event. It will not be an ongoing blog, but it will go on as long as necessary. Basically, this is a way to pay tribute to New Orleans, Mississippi and Alabama.
This will not be [...]

2 comments Read the full article →