Awakened Voice

Neville Hobson just pointed me to an excellent WordPress plugin called Sig2Feed.
The plugin will add a customizable signature to each of the posts in your RSS feed. The main purpose of this feature is to direct people back to your site if they happen to stumble upon your content through another site that is aggregating [...]

If you’re curious about how the latest version of Internet Explorer handles RSS feeds then head over to the Learning Center to catch a video tutorial on managing RSS feeds with IE7.
I’ve been trying out the IE7 Beta for a few months now and am impressed with the support Microsoft has added for managing RSS [...]

The same folks who brought you WordPress have now officially released an Open Source forum application called bbPress.
This software has been around for quite a while and is used for the WordPress Support forums. I tried it out earlier this year and decided that it wasn’t ready for primetime. I’m going to have to give [...]

I recently made the decision to unsubscribe from a number of RSS feeds that only included summaries of the content contained in the blog posts that were being distributed via the feeds.
The act of unsubscribing from these feeds was based on two factors. First, it is highly frustrating to browse my RSS reader of choice [...]

You can now find the final round of interviews from the 2006 Podcast Expo over on A Billion Voices. I’m talking with representatives of Shure, Rogue Amoeba and FeedBurner right on the Expo floor.
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Adam Curry apologized today for media not being available on the PodShow network for a couple of days. I heard that the Podshow.com domain actually expired. Can you believe it?
Adam acknowledged that himself, Ron Bloom and Go Daddy CEO Bob Parson’s were responsible. Evidently Go Daddy is the domain registrar for PodShow. Although he believes [...]

Frank Nora produces The Overnightscape audio podcast. Originally the show was produced weekly and then moved to a half-hour daily format. Now that Frank is up to episode number 561 he has moved to a weekly format but he’s still providing the same amount of content.
So his latest show is three hours plus and the [...]

Griot’s Roll Film Production hosts occasional networking events in New York City. Social media is the main topic of discussion for their next event. I will be talk for about thirty minutes on how businesses can utilize the social web to enhance connections with their customers and spread the word to potential new customers.
Here are [...]

I don’t think I’ve written anything about pinging on this blog yet. So now that Google has added the ability for you to ping their blog search engine this is as good a time as any to write about it.
For those of you not in the know on pinging I’ll provide a basic explanation. Certain [...]

The Associated Press is reporting the Google has bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock.
I almost can’t believe this because it seems like YouTube is very vulnerable to lawsuits from the many copyright holders who are being infringed upon as a result of videos hosted on YouTube.
The linked story contains the following quote: “We are [...]