Awakened Voice

The Wall Street Journal is running a story today in the online and print editions about the effect of blogger vacations on website traffic.
It seems that the most ‘popular’ bloggers are committed to keeping their sites alive during vacation breaks in order to maintain their considerable traffic.
Some continue blogging through their vacations while others recruit [...]

Podango will be launching soon and they will turn the world of podcasting on its ear. Yawn, heard that too many times before.
No but wait they’re different. You’ll be able to quit you day job. Not really, but they are promising $25 to $250K per year to be a Station Director. Wait, if you make [...]

One thing I love about WordPress is the fact that there always seems to be a plugin available for every need I can think of.
I recently started a project that requires me to embed a link to the video in a post so that people would have the option of viewing videos (at a [...]

Josh Hallett takes corporations to task for visiting blogs but not commenting. He asks whether companies visiting blogs but not commenting are “prank calling” your blog. I don’t think so.
A prank call amounts to a nuisance. Someone visiting your blog and not leaving a response is not a nuisance. It’s a choice that every individual [...]

I’ve just installed a new plugin that creates a mobile friendly version of this blog.
I figured this was an appropriate time to do so since Dave Winer has been shedding more light on the mobile news experience with his new mobile “river of news” sites for the NY Times and BBC.
So if you want to [...]

Evan Williams of Odeo (and formerly of Blogger) has published what he calls a Podcasting Site Roundup.
Evan’s offering is an analysis of the status of a number of podcasting services based on their traffic as reported by Alexa.com.
Some interesting data here. It does not surprise me that Libsyn is on top. It also looks like [...]

Alex Castro of pluggd was the only person who responded to my earlier post detailing concerns about big tech and VC dollar infused companies squashing the independent spirit of Podcasting.
He suggested a Skype call to address my concerns. I followed up via email but so far have heard nothing back.
Frankly I didn’t expect much of [...]

The Tech Beat blog over at Business Week is having a hard time with trackback spam. So much so that they’ve turned off trackbacks until they can get the situation under control.
I sympathize with their plight. The fact is that spammers will find their way into your blog at every point of entry. Comments, [...]

It’s interesting to me how creative people are utilizing the new various media tools to build an audience and earn money from their art.
Take Terra Naomi for example. Terra’s YouTube Channel is the number one subscribed musician channel on the site. Her latest video posted just two days ago already has over 7000 views. Some of her videos [...]

Jon Watson has some alternative thoughts on how to define podcasts.
I think his definition of podcasts, calling them “like a radio show except that you download it from the Internet instead of listening to it on a radio,” is a bit narrow. After all many podcasts are delivered in video format so the correlation to radio [...]