Awakened Voice

The previous two posts on this topic set the stage for providing a concrete definition for blogs and podcasts. Not an easy task by a long shot but worth a try just the same.
I think that one of the limiting factors in widespread adoption of social media tools involves the ability of the everyday person [...]

Blogger, the free web based blogging service that helped to popularize blogging, has announced a beta program to introduce a host of upgrades to their service.
As a Blogger user I can tell you that it’s been a while since a major upgrade so these features are very welcome. Unfortunately they are not open to every [...]

A number of sources have reported on the launch of a new blog writing app from Microsoft. The rumors are true!
Microsoft has released Windows Live Writer. It’s a desktop based application that supports posting to Windows Live Spaces and other blogging tools like WordPress and Movable Type.
I’m giving it a try right now as I write this [...]

I found something very interesting while tooling around the latest release of Firefox. When you right click on a page that contains an RSS feed you’re presented with a “Feed or Podcast” menu choice. Clicking the choice then presents a list of items in the feed which you can go to by clicking on the [...]

As I see it now there are three major threats to the growth and success of podcasting as a medium in the coming years.

Centralized RSS Feeds - A recent scare involving the country of China blocking RSS feeds from the Feedburner domain underscores the dangers of having too many feeds hosted at one source. If [...]

If you’re a publisher of podcasts there’s a good chance that you’ve heard of LibSyn. And since they have over 4000 users publishing podcasts there’s an even better chance that you’ve used their services at one time or another.
Recently, the folks at LibSyn threw their hat in the ring to provide business class podcast publishing [...]

Just a few of the topics on the latest episode of my A Billion Voices social media podcast. Head on over if you feel like hearing the latest in the world of Social Media.
[tags]Social Media, Podcast, Podcasting, A Billion Voices, Awakened Voice[/tags]

How’s this for a lucky charm? You can enter to win a free 7-Day trip to Ireland this fall.
Enter at www.shamrock.org/podcast. You and a friend could win a free, week long trip to Ireland where you’ll record podcasts commemorating your experiences.
You don’t need to be a podcaster either. The folks running the contest will provide [...]

In late 2004 the idea of a podcast was born. In the early days things are typically simple. I believe that most early adopters of podcasts defined them as media delivered via an RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures. If you know the terminology then it seems pretty simple.
A podcaster was a person who created an [...]

Just read this article on the Wall Street Journal Online about companies paying for profiles on MySpace. The story goes like this.
Companies want to create a higher profile for a particular product or service, like a movie, but they can’t promote their goods via a MySpace profile without permission. If you’re willing to pay you [...]