Month: May 2007

  • Lessons in Management: Let Go

    Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their result. ~ Gen. George Patton It has been 8 months since I was catapulted from a volunteer, giving of my time on evenings and weekends, and working a thankless desktop support job at a large company,…

  • 98% of WordPress Blogs Vulnerable

    Did that headline get your attention? It should because it’s true. It may or may not actually be 98% but it is high! Do me a favor and if you use WordPress, go check what version you are running. You can find it at the bottom of your WordPress admin screen. Now that you’ve done…

  • Open Letter to Google, Feedburner

    Dear Google Executives: I think it’s very interesting how you have chosen to acquire FeedBurner. I think it’s a wonderful investment for you as you can further solidify your offerings. For instance, you’ll have more reach into feeds to push your Google ads via the FeedBurner Ad Network. For you, this is a fantastic opportunity.…

  • Toronto for Mesh

    I”ve had a few people ask so I figured I’d answer here. Yes, I am going to be in Toronto for Mesh next week. Actually, I’m around all week. I get into town Saturday morning and return to Baltimore on Friday, June 1. Really looking to line some meetings up while I’m in TO, so…

  • Guide to Disaster: How The Tech Team Handled WordPress Security Flaw

    By now, the news has spread rapidly in security circles and on mailing lists about an exploit to the WordPress software less than or equal to version 2.1.3. To give you some background, we had held off on upgrading to version 2.2 that came out last week due to bugs in the software that we…

  • Technorati Authority the Authority?

    It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve logged into Technorati to examine what they think of this blog. To be honest, I’ve come close to giving up on Technorati. A few years ago I realized that their window into the blogosphere was schizophrenic at best. At the time, it revolved around scaling issues as Technorati…

  • Speedlinking: Monday, May 21st 2007

    Technosailor was ranked #1 in the DC area for New Media, PR and Marketing blogs thanks to Buzz Bin. Eric Skiff from Clipmarks points us to Clipiversity, a series of video podcasts that examines what people find interesting and are “clipping”. iTunes playlists is something I need to add to Technosailor (i.e. my playlist). For…

  • Three Years of Blogging

    Today is my three year blogging birthday. It’s been a wild ride. Who would have thought that when I started this blog as a subdomain of another website, using Textpattern, on a slow afternoon at work when I was trying to find something to do, that it would have evolved into the force that you…

  • YouTube Friday: Christian "The Nightmare" Okoye

  • 7 Traits of Highly Effective Bloggers

    This article was originally published on May 23, 2006 and is being republished as part of the Technosailor 3-year Blogiversary series. This was part of a Group Writing Project. As part of the ProBlogger writing project, Habits of highly effective bloggers, I thought I’d offer my own thoughts on the topic. Darren asked for Habits…