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Podcast: Rick Klau of FeedBurner
This past week, I had the chance to sit down with Rick Klau, Vice President of Publisher Services at FeedBurner. It was a fun interview and he answered some of your questions. Show Notes: 1:00 Introduction of Rick Klau 2:02 I’m getting better at podcasting, especially with SuicideFan.com 2:40 Rick and Aaron talk football and…
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BlogNetworkCamp Update
Last week, I mentioned that b5media is cohosting BlogNetworkCamp at SXSW. A little update on this – the original time we had setup had several conflicts that needed to be addressed. We have talked to the other participants (9rules refuses to respond to our emails, oh well) and set the time for 5pm on Sunday…
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WordPress Breach, not Flaw
Just a clarification on today’s WordPress security breach – I’m getting quite a few emails asking me what it’s all about and still yet, I’m reading lots of inaccurate recaps from bloggers (such as this one) around the net. Let me be clear – this is not a security flaw. This is a security breach.…
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EMERGENCY: WordPress 2.1.1 Hacked, Upgrade Released
Please, please, please go and upgrade your blogs right now if you are using WordPress 2.1.1. As Matt outlines, a hacker managed to gain access to the Automattic server with the file downloads and modified core files. The entire 2.1.1 version has been declared compromised and unsafe. Please heed this warning and go download 2.1.2…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Leadership Lessons: When the CEO is synonymous with the brand
There are different types of CEO’s out there. Some are the operational types who crunch the numbers, those who are sales people at heart, those who are visionaries who guide a company in new directions and many more variations of these major archetypes. Then there are what I call “luminaries”. Luminaries are those leaders that…
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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