Category: Aaron Brazell

  • The Rise and Fall of Friends

    We have been transformed. We have been transformed from a culture of Leave it to Beaver, where friends were next door neighbors or maybe work or church associates, into a culture where “friend” is a status symbol peddled by the gazillion social networks. It’s not uncommon to hear someone at a tech conferenct like Blog…

  • Not Everything is Quite as Important as You're Making it Out to Be

    If our lives only involved this world of technology, then life would be a much better place. If life was as simple as simply going to Google and clicking “I feel lucky”, then we might not have the heartache that is in the world and the social media space could just get along by whispering…

  • Las Vegas Photowalk – Be there!

    I’m still not sure how many of you will be in Vegas for Blog World Expo (or who happen to be passing through this coming Friday), but if you are going to be there, bring your cameras! Photo Credit: Roadsidepictures Digital Photography School (Darren Rowse, also from Problogger) is hosting a photowalk and Kris Krug…

  • 3 More Blog Optimization Routines

    Last month, Darren Rowse asked me to contribute a post to Problogger about methods to increase page loads. He gets a lot of questions from his community and he wanted someone who had some experience in the area to help out. I obliged. Please read it. I wanted to follow up that article with a…

  • Movable Type to Catch up with WordPress on Sandbox

    Movable Type, tonight at midnight Pacific time, plans to release a Sandbox development plugin which separates markup from presentation and style in theme development. The concept is a utopian Mecca for many standard-coherent designers who attempt to structure webpages in a standard structural way and then apply styling to adjust and modify the way the…

  • Introducing Ray Capece

    I want to take a moment to introduce Ray Capece, the new editor of Venture Files. The other day, I noted that Steve Fisher, who founded and really pushed Venture Files, has moved on to other things. Notably, he is one of the voices of Solutions are Power by Network Solutions. Ray contacted me after…

  • What Happens in Vegas… Has Yet to Be Determined

    Public Service announcement here (or something). Next week, I’ll be in Vegas starting on Wed night (9/17) and will be leaving the following Tuesday. I’ll be out there for Blog World Expo, my second such trip. Last year was so great that I decided I had to go back again this year. One of the…

  • Google Shiny is Not as Hot as You would Think

    Much has been said about Google Chrome Shiny this week. Google stormed the internet by announcing that they too had a browser that web users could be proud of. They claimed the best of all browsers while slipping in some legal language into the EULA that revoked privacy of user browsing data while using the…

  • 99.96% Uptime is Bogus Marketing

    Reliability Update Twitter has been making great progress in terms of uptime and reliability. Fail Whale sightings are far less frequent these days thanks to our efforts but we still have a long journey ahead. Last month we saw 99.88% uptime and so far this month we are at 99.96%. Our engineering and operations teams…

  • Google Blog Platform

    A few years ago, in the early days of blogging, Google made a play to buy the Blogger platform. What occurred after that was a long period of time where Blogger received no love from their new parents. Also during this time, Movable Type came along and was then eclipsed by WordPress. WordPress went from…