Awakened Voice

Just so the drive by commenters who aren’t fully grasping the issue know, the issue here is not objecting to sponsorship.
Sponsorship by individuals and organizations is required at these events. The people putting them together need to deal with getting a space, paying for food, wireless networking, sanitation and a lot more as I saw [...]

As someone who is not a native of the tech industry I’m continually shocked by the sense of entitlement that plagues the culture. I continually see individuals and organizations reach a certain level of prominence only to turn their backs on the people who are working on a grass roots level.
People may get to to [...]

I got home tonight and thought to myself, “Time to feed the echo chamber.” Though you may not want to swallow the pill I’m handing over.
There are two or more sides to every story. One side says they were asked for an accomodation. One side says they were offered a favor. Another side says you [...]

Just saw the post by Matt indicating that WordPress.com had hit the 500,000 blog mark. That’s a lot of blogs.
They have bulit a good service over there that works for a lot of people. I put my wife on a WordPress.com blog when she wanted to start photo blogging.
What’s wild about the WordPress story is [...]

Evidently Robert didn’t ask to have his expenses paid to come to PodCamp in New York. I could have never figured that from the statement made by the organizer on the Google Group relating to the planning process. He presents his side of the story on his blog.
Some kind of an offer was made evidently. [...]

I can’t even believe this is true but it seems that it is. A recent thread from the Google Group for the team planning PodCamp NYC goes like this, “Robert Scoble is interested in coming to podcamp nyc but has intimated (okay, said) he’d want his expenses paid. My vote is we pay them and [...]

Dave Winer points out that Evan Williams of Odeo seems to get more than his fair share of love from the New York Times. Seems like he’s on to something here.
Ev gets lots of love at the start of Odeo and then more love when he buys back the failed effort from the venture capitalists. [...]

A few months ago I was introduced to a new, Open Source project management tool called activeCollab. The developer is a young man from Serbia who aimed to take the features provided by the commercial BaseCamp software and make them available for free.
So far so good. Release 0.7 takes this product even closer to BaseCamp [...]

There’s a new tutorial playing over in the Learning Center. Learn how to use the Feed2JS tool to place RSS feed items on just about any web page.
[Tags]Social Media, RSS, Tutorial, Video, Tools, Open Source[/tags]

I find myself using a suite of mobile Google applications on my Nokia 6620 phone more and more these days. In fact, last night the Google Maps Mobile helped me get around San Francisco in a pinch.
The mobile version of Google Maps is a better alternative to a paper map in my opinion. No need [...]