Awakened Voice

Alexa Ray Joel, that’s who? I keep finding more good music there every day. The key to making this work is that users need to be generous and reward artists they like by sharing music, recommending tracks and spending a few $$$ a month to support the artists.
[tags]Social Media, Music, Commerce[/tags]

I’ve been a daily user of Netvibes for months now. I think this is a great personal information aggregator and start page. So I made a video tutorial on setting up your own Netvibes page. If you have a look you’ll see how easy it is to get organized using their free service.
[tags]Social Media, Start [...]

Great post from Nick Wilson on how the Snap service is ruining the blog experience. Right on!
[tags]Social Media, Blogging, Snap, Annoyance[/tags]

If you combined MySpace with a DRM-free online music store and throw in a Darwinist market philosophy you end up with Amie St.
Amie St. has provided a place where independent musicians can find new fans, network and sell their music. There’s a catch though. New songs start out free and rise in price depending on [...]

Dave Winer: “I don’t know how you feel about this, but I find the little popup preview windows that are showing up on various blogs to be REALLY ANNOYING.”
[tags]Social Media, Dave Winer, Annoyance, Snap[/tags]

The new Blogger has been out of beta for a little while now so recently I decided to switch some of my podcast sites based on Blogger over from the old version to the new and improved version.
Despite multiple assurances on the screen that everything would be okay with the switch over something has happened [...]

Bill Marriott, the CEO of Marriott Hotels is blogging and podcasting. This news is nothing new. In fact I reported on this over on my Red Room Chronicles blog. What’s really notable is the fact that I think that he’s doing it real well.
There have been four posts to the Marriott On The Move blog [...]

I got a nice note from Dries Buytaert this morning. Dries is the founder and maintainer of Drupal. He thinks my Drupal 5 Overview Tour, “…makes for a great introduction!”
I’m thankful for Dries’ (and many others) contributions in building this excellent platform. And since I can’t code a lick I figured that this was the [...]

Eric Rice weighs in on the full vs. partial RSS feed debate. This stems from a long running debate between RSS publishers and subscribers.
Some publishers only include a portion of the actual content in their feeds so that readers will be forced to come to their sites and view the content and maybe a few [...]

WordPress 2.1 is out and contains some significant upgrades that publishers will really like. Drupal 5.0 was recently released and contains some significant upgrades that make it easier to use and more flexible than ever. So which one should you use to satisfy your web publishing needs?
First off, if you’re currently invested in one package [...]