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Author: Aaron Brazell

  • Leadership Lessons: When the CEO is synonymous with the brand

    There are different types of CEO’s out there. Some are the operational types who crunch the numbers, those who are sales people at heart, those who are visionaries who guide a company in new directions and many more variations of these major archetypes. Then there are what I call “luminaries”. Luminaries are those leaders that…

  • What George Orwell Can Teach Us About Digg

    In George Orwell’s legendary political satire, Animal Farm (aff) the story is portrayed that the farmhouse animals band together under the leadership of Snowball and Napoleon, the pigs, who become dangerously socialistic

  • Do You Have Questions for Rick Klau of FeedBurner

    Tomorrow afternoon, I’m interviewing Rick Klau of FeedBurner on a podcast that will be aired on Monday morning. This is your opportunity to go straight to the source. If you’ve got comments or questions for Rick about FeedBurner or… whatever… send me an email at aaron@b5media.com and I’ll get your question on the air. Last…

  • Habari Gani?

    I lived in Africa for some portion of my childhood, so when I heard of Habari my mind kicked back into Swahili in which the phrase, “Habari Gani?” is a greeting akin to “How’s it going?” or more literally “What’s the News?”. As I flirt with treason, I look at the Habari Project – unreleased…

  • HP Victory: One Small Step for Bloggers, One Giant Leap for the Blogosphere

    The other day I posted about a friend, Thomas, who was caught in a customer service nightmare with HP. I won’t rehash the story as it was told here. In fact, I can tell you that much information was omitted (mostly inadvertently) and I don’t regret the story going to the front page of Digg…

  • The Digg Bury Effect

    If you’ve got praise for Microsoft. If you endorse Republican policies. If you believe in helping people optimize their website using SEO. If you have anything positive to say about Netscape, Reddit or Yahoo! Suggestions – it’s time to stop relying on Digg for traffic. Digg has come under increasing fire as they continue to…

  • Puerto Rican Statehood

    DCist points to the fighting chance that Puerto Rico might finally become a U.S. State. I support the addition of states to the Union. Puerto Rico is one. The District of Columbia is another complicated story being populated by U.S. citizens not having a vote in Congress. New York City skews the politics of the…

  • WordPress Custom Fields Contest Extended

    I know there’s some last minute interest in the contest I announced on February 1st and to give everyone a fair shake, the contest is being extended 1 month to March 30th. Remember, the rules state that the project must be new in the Feb 1 to March 30 timeframe. Older projects are not allowed.…

  • BlogNetworkCamp SXSW

    Because we like camelcasing things, I’d like to extend an invite to anyone who plans to be at SXSWi to join b5media, 451Press, Random Shapes and (add other blog networks) to BlogNetworkCamp. Jeremy has kicked things off with a little background and I’ve posted the event at Upcoming.org where you can RSVP. Potential Topics to…

  • An Entrepreneur's View: 5 Things Digg needs to do or it will die in 2008

    I was guest blogging for my friend Aaron Brazell who writes Technosailor. We live near each other and run into each other at Starbucks living the Bedoin lifestyle. We talk alot about the techology scene and I made the comment that Digg would be dead or made irrelevant by next year. So he challenged me…