Awakened Voice

I’m not even close to being one of the first people to react to the release of iTunes 4.9, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have an opinion. So for whatever it’s worth, here it is.
I downloaded 4.9 to my wife’s computer as soon as the word hit and then fired the program up to [...]

CEOs should know better. You would think. Not so. What the hell am I talking about. I started reading a seemingly innocuous article about MySpace, the online community for so many indie musicians. If you’ve read the blog recently you know that I enjoy MySpace as a recent member who is quickly making contacts there [...]

What is Loomia? I saw a site called Loomia hitting my web server logs recently with the following url: http://dev.loomia.com:9000/loomia/site. Being the curious type I went over and checked out the link. It looks like they’re building a service to help with finding, subscribing to and consuming audio and video casts. Their tag line for [...]

Audible Does What? Podcasting Huh?: “
Audible is just starting ramp up their business model entry into the podcasting space. Right now there not letting anything out of the bag other than a white paper, but on June 24th they are going to roll out their…
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Looks like Audible is on the cusp of a big announcement [...]

The latest version of iPodderX has been reeking havoc on podcaster’s stats recently. The updated product has a bug that causes the podcast client to continually request the same file over and over again. I heard about the bug a couple of days ago and checked my server logs. Sure enough, requests from iPodderX were [...]

I just got done checking out Dave’s Imaginary Sound Space over on MSN Spaces. He’s got a great resource there on podsafe music in his podcasting category. It includes links to all the great services, blogs or podcasts that help people to find and manage podsafe music podcasts. It’s a highly recommended resource for anyone [...]

I signed up today for two services that every podcaster should be checking out post haste. First off, there’s Ourmedia. Ourmedia is on a mission to create a grassroots movement to expose digital creativity. In order to forward that goal, Ourmedia offers free storage and bandwidth for your video, audio, text, pictures, whatever. Holy s#^t! [...]

I had a nice converation with Alex Williams from the Corante Podcasting blog this weekend about digital music, the RIAA and podcasting. During the conversation Alex mentioned an event that Corante is hosting that sounded very cool and interesting. The event is called The Podcast Hotel and it will take place on September 6th and [...]

Hopes for legal music podcasts rise | CNET News.com: “Hopes for legal music podcasts rise | Digital DJs, record labels are discussing ways to simplify music podcasting, in talks that could help accelerate format’s ascent. | June 16, 2005, 12:45 PM PT | John Borland”
This article and the revelations contained therein underscore some major problems [...]

I’ve posted an overview of my Odeo experience on my Front Page Podcast. Unfortunately, as of 9:13 Eastern Time, Libsyn is crapping out and no one can get to the file. Let’s hope these guys don’t become a subject of one of my service rants.
***Update***
Looks like there was about a three hour outage. Some jack@$$ [...]