Awakened Voice

I spent some time today doing a bit of work under the hood over at the Blubrry blog. I always learn something new every time I go under the hood on WordPress.
The theme needed an overhaul and I also wanted to make better use of Alex King’s Share This plugin. I followed the instructions on [...]

You’ve really gone off track. I say this because I’m seeing discussions popping up about micro-media, going smaller, blog burnout and the like. This discussion confuses people whose heads aren’t so far down in the blogosphere that all they can hear are the muffled sounds of the rest of the world going about their [...]

What can I say? I can’t help but document processes that I see as important in building sites around Drupal. The result is a video tutorial on creating a custom content type (via CCK) and a corresponding view using Drupal.
You can find the full resolution QuickTime version over in the Awakened Voice Learning Center. Or [...]

“Dead networks mean that it’s super easy to create your own social network for free on Ning and that people are dipping their toes to experiment in this particular pond.” Gina Bianchini, Ning
This may be taking the old adage to have respect for the dead a bit too far.
Ning, a service whose tools I admire [...]

I have posted a new tour over in the Awakened Voice Learning Center. It is a 15 minute look at the Miro open source video player. Play it below or get the full resolution version over on the original post.

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It never ceases to amaze me how much people continue to attempt to exploit artists, especially musicians, even in these days of Creative Commons, Magnatune, CD Baby, IODA and podcasting.
You have these people operating on the web that claim to be doing something different. They claim to be doing things in a new way. But [...]

One of the things that absolutely blows my mind is how passionate members of the open source community are about the tools that they make and use. When I started doing screencasts last summer I didn’t really have any road map with respect to the tools that I would cover. I decided to focus on [...]

I recently gave a bit of advice to a potential client. I frequently give free advice directly to people as a way to let people know that I’m confident in the value my services offer. After sending it out I thought I should share some of it.
From my perspective there are three main entry [...]

Let’s call Miro the video player formerly known as the Democracy Player. I made a note of this change a few months ago.
Democracy Player has officially been relaunched as Miro. The folks on the team are billing it as, “The only video player you need.” A strong statement indeed.
I tried out Miro in earlier incarnations [...]

The Drupal content management platform can be downright scary to newbies trying to create sites using the tool. This is simply due to the fact that you can do so much with the platform.
Thankfully Drupal has a very robust community of contributors adding code and knowledge to the effort. I appreciate all of it. Recently [...]