Awakened Voice

Thinking about producing portable media? Worrying about that media actually being consumed? The latest move by Apple will increase the chances that your audio or video podcast gets seen or heard.
A couple of days back Apple announced that the iPod would integrate with the entertainment systems on a number of international airlines, including my favorite [...]

No, I’m not talking about RSS marrying Podcasting. Rather I’m talking about the recent report over at Paid Content, that states, “WSJ Reporters In Union Will Stop Podcasts, Webcast Interviews, CNBC Appearances.”
As far as I know this is the first time workers have refused to produce podcasts for their employer. Labor unions have a lot [...]

Now that YouTube has been fully acquired by Google I think they should aspire to a high level of service. After all they’re no longer a cash strapped startup anymore. Heck, in terms of internet startups they are now filthy rich. So they should have the money to make their feature set a bit more [...]

The folks at Big In Japan list some of the pros and cons of using a hosted blog service like Wordpress.com. Something like this could certainly start an interesting discussion. Here are some of my thoughts.
If you’re a very small firm and just learning blogging I think that hosted services like Wordpress.com, Blogger or TypePad [...]

PodCamp has turned into something of a phenomenon and why not? Podcasters are passionate about their craft.
If you must have any more evidence of that fact consider that at least a half dozen more of these events are taking place worldwide over the next six months in the following locales:

San Francisco (I’ll Be There!)
Germany
Philadelphia

Toronto
Atlanta
New York

There [...]

Intel is offering a suite of social media apps they are calling Suite Two. They are bundling a number of tools together including Movable Type, NewsGator and Socialtext.
According to the official website, “SuiteTwo is a rich set of interconnected services that combine to improve productivity and enable high-engagement marketing. SuiteTwo includes the most trusted platforms [...]

There’s a lot of talk about a new service called SpringWidgets that allows people to create and use widgets for the desktop and the web.
Widgets are mini-applications that can sometimes be shared on other websites, blogs, social networks, etc. SpringWidgets (like the previously mentioned Grazr) offers an RSS feed aggregator widget that also supports [...]

I recently had the privilege of attending the 2006 Critical Issues Forum which was organized by the Council of Public Relations Firms. This was a very high profile event that included discussion among some of the thought leaders in the public relations, marketing and advertising industries. The topic for discussion was Achieving Engagement in a [...]

I recently announced that the Dailysonic audio podcast had moved to a weekly format. Unfortunately the folks over their have decided to call it a day. That’s too bad because they put together a high quality show. In the end, the time and cost required was probably too much given their difficulties raising appropriate revenue [...]

Vox is a new social network/blogging service run by the folks at Six Apart.
From the looks of it Vox goes beyond the basic blogging and community features you get with Blogger and WordPress.com, offering more advanced photo, audio and video integration.
I haven’t used the service so I can’t speak on how good the features actually [...]