Author: Aaron Brazell

  • 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…

  • A Tale of Three Bloggers

    This article was originally published on February 27, 2006 and is being republished as part of the Technosailor 3-year Blogiversary series. Enjoy! A timeless parable… — Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Blogosphere, there lived three peasants. These peasants worked very hard day in and day out working for their respective lords. The…

  • The Well Defined Lines of Blogging

    This article was originally published on March 24, 2005 and is being republished as part of the Technosailor 3-year Blogiversary series. Enjoy! A timeless quote… Blogging is a developing medium, but at the same time it is well established. The players that were in existence in 2003 have now been changed due to acquisitions and…