Awakened Voice

How can I tell? Take a look at Google’s announcement today of big investments in clean energy. Big Silicon Valley VC firm Kleiner Perkins also recently announced that Al Gore would join their ranks to help spur investments in clean energy startups.
We are more than two years off from News Corp.’s purchase of MySpace [...]

Every so often there are rumbles around the world of podcasting about the viability of audio vs. video content. Last month Shel Holtz responded to a post by Chris Brogan about video being more viable than audio as a commercial endeavor because of the flow of money into online video. I watched the exchange [...]

Good post yesterday by Seth Godin titled, Thanks. Seth makes a very salient point in his post when he writes, “Every time you read something I write here, you’re giving me a gift… attention.”
Seth writes this in the context of whether or not he should have ads or sponsorships on his blog. Should you have [...]

I use both WordPress and Drupal quite a bit so I thought it might help the community to provide my thoughts on how I use both of these great open source platforms.
What They’re Good For
WordPress is great for creating a single or multi-author blog. There are many single author blogs (like WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg’s [...]

I recently signed up for an invite to the new NBC/Fox joint venture known as Hulu. Initially thought to be a YouTube competitor, Hulu is more of an online repository for content owned by these networks and their various affiliates.
I got my invite today and have been checking it out. There’s a ton of content [...]

Finally! Someone offers a new kind of podcasting service that makes sense. Because we need another podcast ad network like we need holes in our heads.
Podcasters desperately need tools that extend their reach. They need tools that allow them to smooth the integration between their feeds and the various destinations where people find and consume [...]

I was never a big fan of Facebook in the first place. I have an account there. I have a bunch of friends over there. I’ve used the thing occasionally over the last four months. There is absolutely nothing revolutionary about the technology. You’re limited in a lot of ways, not the least of [...]

I spent some time digesting today’s announcement by Facebook about their ad platform. Don’t walk, run.
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At first glance the OpenSocial initiative announced by Google last week seemed to be a huge victory for independent web developers like myself. The message was clear. Let’s find a way for developers to make it easy for users of web applications to port their data between websites. It sounds like a great answer to [...]

One factor of the long term success of a blog is the ability of people to find your blog in situations where they are looking around on the web for topics you’re writing about. So what I’m talking about is the visibility of your blog to search engines, related blogs and other services that [...]