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Category: Aaron Brazell

  • My Calendar Mashup

    Here’s a mashup I just instituted here at Technosailor after some months of trying to figure out how to do it. First, the premise though. I keep everything calendar related in iCal on my Mac. That is my point of origin and that is non-negotiable. I also need to have my stuff on my Blackberry…

  • Poll: Job Searching

    It strikes me, six months after I started my job with b5media, that I still have all the email notifications come to inbox as I did before. It also strikes me that, while I glance at them all, I don’t really look very closely anymore. I’m curious what your feelings are on job searches. At…

  • Gaming Digg: Is it a Game When the Money Isn't Monopoly Money?

    The term ‘gaming Digg’ comes from the idea that the system is a flawed system that is easily exploited for the benefit of those who know how. It’s Survivor. Outplay. Outwit. Outlast. The drug trade on the street is called ‘the game’. The political process is called ‘the game’. The problem is, when real money…

  • Feed Issues

    Excuse the feed refreshes/wonkiness you may have seen here at Technosailor in the past 2 hours. I had to nail down an issue that was affecting HTML being stripped from feeds. It’s all resolved now. Carry on as you were. Anyone who is curious the culprit? PodPress 7.3 was stripping tags a little too aggressively…

  • 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…