Awakened Voice

Dave Winer released a free program for the Mac called Flickrfan that has ignited a discussion about the different ways to get your web based photos onto a computer or HD television.
Dave’s application only works with Mac and only pulls photos from Flickr. And while I have a Flickr account I don’t own a Mac [...]

I made some predictions at the end of 2006 in a post titled, The Free Video Meal Will End In 2007. Well did it? Sort of. Let’s take a look at each one.
Prediction #1: Some of the players mentioned above will not exist by the end of 2007. They will either go away as a [...]

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This man is the most controversial video blogger in social media today. Loved by some, despised by others, he may be just what social media needs in order to move to the next [...]

I’ve long believed that Drupal would make a great platform for everything from a single podcast to an entire network of podcasts. In general Drupal has been a bit short on modules that make podcasting easier but that has changed recently so now is a good time to point out what I’ve learned.
Why Drupal Is [...]

I was initially very happy to see that Micah Sifry of TechPresident.com chose to stand strong in the face of a challenge from Mike Arrington and TechCrunch. I’ll try to make a long story short here.
A few days ago the gang over at TechCrunch launched their Tech President Primaries. I got wind of this [...]

I stopped by the Apple store today on 14th Street. This is a very new location. I ended up buying a Belkin Tune Base FM for my iPod Touch. I tried it on the way home and it worked real well in my Honda Civic. I’ll definitely be a lot safer when manipulating my iPod [...]

It is my observation that the tech community in the United States likes to think of itself as much more influential than they really are. Tech is a cog in the system but its not the whole system. That’s why I don’t give generally too much credence to causes that petition for a so called [...]

I think that WordPress would be a lot more useful as website and blogging tool if two areas of the functionality were improved.
WordPress sidebar widgets are a big step up from earlier versions where you had to code by hand to place and arrange different items in the sidebar. But what I really like to [...]

I want to congratulate Dries Buytaert and his team over at Acquia on the news that they have gained funding for their Drupal focused startup. According to their website, “Acquia is a new software company that will provide value-added software products and services for the Drupal web collaboration and publishing platform.”
Acquia is much like [...]

If there was every a time to point out the disease of rampant elitism in the tech blogging community then this is it. It’s time that a greater light was shined on the mental sickness that is affecting certain A-list bloggers and their followers. There are three situations that highlight these problems and they’ve all [...]