Awakened Voice

Every day more old media outlets turn to Social Media technology to extend the reach of their content. PaidContent.org reports (via MediaWeek) that CNN will launch half a dozen video podcasts very soon.
Four of the podcasts will contain original contant and initially they won’t contain advertisements. That could, and probably will, change of course.
The fact [...]

As frequent readers of this blog know, I’m a big proponent of using Social Media technologies to help organize and promote periodic events. Which is why I very happy to see that the folks who run the Wimbledon tennis championship have an RSS feed of their own to help provide updates on the upcoming tournament.
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The big news in the world of podcasting/blogging this week was the fact that Microsoft evangelist Robert Scoble is quitting Microsoft to work for PodTech.net as a content producer and video blogger. I have heard of PodTech.net and saw Jon Furrier, PodTech’s founder, speak on a panel at the Podcast Academy in April.
And although [...]

I’m a big fan of businesses getting involved in social communities rather than throwing down hard earned cash to advertise on them via links and banners. Cakewalk, a maker of digital music production software, has done just that.
You can find Cakewalk of MySpace at http://myspace.com/cakewalksoftware. A good move for these folks. After all, many music [...]

The New Rules Of Podcasting.

Networks are a losing business model.
Signing away the exclusive rights to your podcast is a stupid thing to do.
Speaking at conferences does not qualify as an accomplishment.
Statistics and demographics are meaningless and useless.
Ninety percent of podcasting news is worthless.
What you knew last summer has almost certainly changed today.
iTunes is [...]

Steve Rubel reports that a new web based RSS aggregator called moQvo has launched a Beta.
The site makes heavy use of Flash technology to allow users to find, subscribe to and share RSS powered content. Content on the site includes audio, video and text powered RSS feeds.
moQvo also includes features that allow users to connect [...]

According to Somewhat Frank, Attensa has introduced a corporate level RSS solution that is powered by a Linux server.
Deploying a server to handle RSS management is particularly attractive to enterprises that want to have full control over their RSS feed distribution. This type of deployment also gives organizations the power to put RSS on the [...]

This is the feedback that I recently sent to Doug Kaye with regards to my attendance at the Podcast Academy at Boston University.
A little background on why I was there. Although I produce a number of independent podcasts, my attendance at the Academy was sponsored by the Boomer Esiason Foundation, a New York City based [...]

Here are the services that I utilize to power all the podcasting here at Podcast NYC.

Blogger - Simple, flexible and free. Blogger powers all of the podcasts that sit on the main Podcast NYC site. $0 per month
Wordpress - The grand daddy of all weblog software if you ask me. WordPress powers my New [...]

Most of us are very familiar with web based communities. One of the earliest form of web based communities was the threaded message board or forums. In recent years social networking sites and Wikis have reduced the demand for forum sites as a method of connecting.
That said, plain old forums are still a great way [...]