Author: Aaron Brazell

  • 5 Things Digg needs to do or it will die in 2008

    The Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference this week and Kevin’s presentation “The Future of Crowd Generated Media” got me thinking about how long Digg might last or stay relevant. Granted, Jason Calcanis wrote a month ago about how Digg would “die a death of 1000 cuts”. He is right that they own the “Young…

  • The Digg Mob

    As demonstrated by the chaos that ensued on “the HP thread”, the Digg mob is essentially a classless, shameless group. I guess they have every right to be. But the reality is that people take on personalities and alter-egos far different than they most likely have in real life. This week is Digg week here…

  • HP Gives Consumer the Middle Finger

    Notice of Comment Moderation: If you are coming here from Digg and want to leave vile comments with nothing constructive to say, your comment will be immediately deleted. This is not Digg. This is Technosailor. Behave as you would in public. If you’re going to call someone an “asswipe”, have something to add to the…

  • Unsubscribe

    If you run a blog that is nothing but “speedlink” style posts, you will be removed from my feed reader shortly. Linkblogs are great when paired with real content. If you can’t generate any real content of your own, you’re wasting my bandwidth. Bye bye.

  • FOWA Presentation on Venture Capital

    I saw this presentation that Ben Holmes of Index Ventures gave at the FOWA Conference in London “Everything you need to know about Venture Capital“… He put his slides on slideshare so take a look. (BTW, Slideshare rocks) Here is an entrepreneur’s take on the slideshow: Think of this as liner notes if an entrepreneur…

  • If you want value, don't listen to dnScoop

    There’s an interesting new service out there that everybody’s talking about. Trouble is, Seth Godin is the only one call an apple an apple. The service is dnscoop and it’s respectable enough to be on a shared host that never seems to be up. When you can get to the website, the idea is yet…

  • Call For Help Video Submission

    Chris Pirillo is doing Call for Help again and he is requesting video questions. I just submitted this to him but thought I’d post it here in case anyone wants to respond directly to me:

  • Grokking What Makes People Tick via Skype

    Total fun for a Friday. I’ve just realized that I have to laugh at people (including myself) when it comes to Mood Messages in IM. So in the spirit of good natured fun, let’s see what people are about via my Skype contact list (people online right now): Arieanna Schweber is ummm… loving punctuation. Chris…

  • Is Your Marketing Premise Faulty?

    Yesterdays Feedburner report surrounding reader engagement has left me with a lot of questions about assumptions and premises that we take for granted. I blogged about the report, but let me take a few minutes to ask some deeper questions. To date, the assumption has been made that a site producing content is the nexus…

  • Media Appearances Through the Years

    I’m archiving all the media/press appearances or articles I’ve written over the years. I’ll probably move this to a separate page or something, but for now, you can suffer through my archiving. Older articles, particularly the SitePoint ones, could probably use a refresh. Keep in mind time frame.