Awakened Voice

The folks who make Democracy Player have posted a Video Podcast Shootout comparing their offering with iTunes. Democracy Player is free, open-source software that assists you with management of video podcasts.
There are some very compelling reasons to choose Democracy Player over iTunes for your video aggregator of choice. Democracy was built from the ground up [...]

Friday night is definitely the big night for parties at the Podcast Expo. Last year Yahoo! Podcasts threw a shindig at the Marriott and then everyone headed up the Presidential Suite to find out all about PodTrac and get some free beverages.
This year I figured that Friday night would be even bigger. And it [...]

There’s no doubt that some aspects of social media are moving very fast. New and updated tools, products and services are coming at us on a daily basis. So I should not have been surprised when I opened up Google Reader yesterday to find a completely new interface and a host of new features.
Google’s upgrade [...]

I’m covering the 2006 Podcast Expo over on my A Billion Voices podcast. Head over to listen to some interviews from the Expo floor.
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There must be something in the water this week. We’ve got Apple acting stupid by trying to hammer small frys over the word podcast. And now we’ve got PodShow shutting out some of their podcasts from getting wider exposure.
Todd Cochrane reports that PodShow podcasters have been ordered to remove their listings from the Blubrry social [...]

Podcast Expo week rolls on here at Awakened Voice. Our latest lesson over in the Learning Center is a tour of the Blubrry social podcasting community. This is part one of a two part tour with the first part focusing on features that podcast subscribers will experience in the community.
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It’s a little known fact that once upon a time I wrote a book. In fact, the writing of that book is what prompted me to start Awakened Voice as a vehicle to promote my work. In the summer of 2004 I decided to record the book in audio form since I knew that I [...]

One of the podcasters that I met in the early days in New York City was Adam Varga. Adam’s a real nice guy who’s from Queens, NY which is where I’m from so I always took an interest in the welfare and progress of his project.
The project, which Adam sometimes avoided calling a podcast, is [...]

WordPress.com has announced a VIP Hosting Program. The offering is geared toward publishers getting major traffic to their blog.
The offering promises, “…the benefits of what we’ve built without the limitations of a free WordPress.com account around theme editing and javascript.” What they’ve built is an infrastructure that can support millions of pageviews per day.
Some of [...]

For better or for worse I will be present at the 2006 Portable Media and Podcast Expo this coming weekend. The better part means that I’m excited to connect face to face with some of the people I’ve been connecting with virtually over the last year. Recents events will insure stimulating conversations and hearty debates [...]