Awakened Voice

It must be ’shaft the little guys’ week in podcasting. First Apple takes aim at Podcast Ready. Now some group of nuts is going after LibSyn users because LibSyn hosts a podcast that this group finds.
Seems that this angry group has not only been sending emails to LibSyn but to random other people hosting their [...]

If you get a few moments head over to the Learning Center to have a look at a tutorial on managing RSS feeds with Google Reader.
The Google Reader tool was barely acceptable as an RSS reader when it was first launched but the folks at Google have continued to upgrade the service, making Google Reader [...]

Moderating comments is a simple but powerful way to protect your social site from the evil ways of spammers.
When you moderate comments they are pushed into a queue for review prior to being made viewable on the website. This feature adds an extra step to your process as the proprietor of a social site because you [...]

I’ve got a new lesson posted over in the Learning Center. This time around I’m showing folks how to create an RSS feed with the free and very easy IceRocket RSS Builder.
This is a web based tool that allows you to manage multiple RSS feeds under one account. I think the IceRocket tool is a [...]

I mentioned Akismet back in May but it’s a tool worth mentioning again now that I’m harping on social media security.
Aksimet is a plugin for WordPress and over 20 other systems that filters out unwanted spam messages on your site. When you utilize the Akismet plugin you share information and get the benefit of shared [...]

I know nothing about Podcast Ready or myPodder but Steve Rubel’s post about this Wired blog post is ridiculous.
Are they kidding? Is Apple going to try and obliterate every company that uses the word ‘podcast’ or ‘pod’ in their branding, products or services? As far as I know Apple didn’t invent the term podcast or [...]

I’ve got a progress report for several of the major commercial directories/communities in the works. Well, it’s in my head but I’ll get started on it soon.
Anyway, I’ve been keeping track of Blubrry since I’ve got my New York Mets Podcast included in their community. So I’ve been keeping track via their blog and [...]

I’ve been doing some house cleaning on this blog and noticed something that absolutely horrified me. For the last couple of months I’ve been racking up moderated comments and not approving them.
It seems that at some point I blanked out the field that sends the moderated comments to my email address. And I hadn’t checked [...]

Magix is one of those companies that puts out good software that rarely gets a lot of attention in the U.S. I’ve used their $79 Music Studio Deluxe product for years to create and edit digital audio. A few months ago I paid $55 for their excellent Magix Movie Edit Pro 11 software. Again, this [...]

This is the first of the spam fighting tools and techniques that I’ll feature following my wiki spam attack.
Bad Behavior is a set of PHP scripts that helps to protect social websites from spam bots. According to their official website Bad Behavior does this, “by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles [...]