Category: Aaron Brazell

  • WordPress FAQ: How Do I combine Blogs?

    This morning, one of our bloggers posted a question in our internal forum. She was seeking guidance on how to take a few (three) blogs and combine them. I provided three solutions for her and decided, in the process, that I would kick start my braindead blogging (lately) into a mini-series of WordPress FAQ questions.…

  • Last Minute NYC Trip

    I’ve decided to rent a car and make the drive up I-95 to the Problogger NYC meetup on Thursday evening. It was all very last minute. Had to find a place to stay, rent a car (because mine certainly won’t make the trip) and throw together arrangements (i.e. make sure the Wife would allow it…

  • Kent Brewster Said it Right

    At SXSW, I sat in on a session “Web Hacks” which ended up being nothing about web hacks. The panel discussion was allowed to spiral into politically laced commentary on copyright law. One of the panelists, Kent Brewster from Yahoo! Pipes Yahoo Developers Network , had a great response to a audience member who wanted…

  • Automatic Activation of Plugins

    A long time “want” for WordPress, especially since dealing with a large number of blogs at b5media, has been to have a WordPress MU feature that provides a directory whereby all plugins are automatically activated. I have asked for it on back channels for several months now, but it wasn’t until recently that I realized…

  • b5media is Hiring

    We are hiring a slew of positions (not blogger positions, though there are those too). Jeremy has posted the details. Among those are: Operations Manager Affiliate Manager WordPress Developer Print Designer “Music Phreak” If you’re interested, we’d love to get an email from you with your qualifications, and perhaps even a resumé! :)

  • Busy Year

    My schedule is looking daunting this year. Never have I traveled as much as I have since going full time with b5media, and the schedule doesn’t look to be getting better. I enjoy traveling, don’t get me wrong. I’m excited about the opportunities that I’ve been given. It’s just… alot. Next weekend, we have the…

  • Review: Dan Rather

    Photo: Texas Amy on Flickr Continuing my thoughts from last weeks SXSW trip, I want to talk about Dan Rather’s keynote interview on Monday Afternoon. I admit to being pretty soured by the trip by Monday afternoon, so perhaps my thoughts are a little skewed. Going into the address, I did find it massively ironic…

  • Sports Video Podcast – The ACC Sucks

    My first attempt at a video podcast was a 2 minute deal over at Suicide Fan desceribing why the ACC has fallen from grace. Tell me what you think.

  • b5media Hitting WordPress 2.1

    We grow. We suffer usage fees. Those fees come in database overhead, CPU utilization, etc. We’re hitting a number of incremental optimization targets in the next 3 weeks (by the time I go to Toronto in April, I hope) and one of them is moving the network to WordPress 2.1. Really, I’ve been very patient…

  • Review: The Hampton Inn

    In my ongoing review series from my SXSW trip, I’d like to turn a negative eye on The Hampton Inn. As most business travellers, I receive a per diem and with that and additional funds I had in Paypal, I was secure in knowing I had $1000 in Paypal for my trip. Nothing that could…