Awakened Voice

I’ve been thinking. To some those are some pretty scary words but not necessarily as scary as me deciding to tell you what I think. In this case I’ve been thinking about what I call the social media herd.
The social media herd is a group of people who move in concert from web application [...]

My obsession with the Drupal platform has expanded from the occasional screencast to a Drupal guide for beginners and now a new website. I’ve been working on Learn By The Drop for a few weeks now. It’s a place to learn Drupal. I’m posting tidbits of information (which I’m calling drops) to help the average [...]

I’ve been a DreamHost customer for a while now and although they have problems with servers failing from time to time I have generally been happy with the combination of prices, tools and performance.
The weakest point of the hosting experience with DreamHost has been the performance as major outages seems to happen a couple [...]

Let’s continue with the subject of building brands and keeping control of your content. There’s this issue with comments. A growing number of people who write their own blogs want better control of all the comments that they leave on other sites. Comments represent ideas and opinions that can add to the value of your [...]

We are living in a world of dilution. Lots of people are creating lots of content. There are many companies that want to get a hold of that content so they can use it for their own purposes. And those companies won’t pay the original publishers a dime. That’s not a good thing.
One of my [...]

Take this word of friendly advice from someone who hasn’t invested money in a third-party commenting service. Maintain control of the comments on your site. Third-party commenting services like Disqus, coComment and Intense Debate always state that you retain ownership of your comments. That’s great but you really don’t retain control.
When you utilize a comment [...]

I’m really amazed at how many people are investing time and money on building tools on top of Twitter. The following links are just a few of the services that are being offered to help people get more out of Twitter’s short text messaging services.

TwitterSnooze - Hit the snooze button on your verbose friends.
Tweetburner - [...]

Every so often you stumble across something and think, “How is it that I didn’t know about this sooner?” ScribeFire is one of those things.
ScribeFire is a blog publishing tool that integrates with the Firefox web browser as an add on. Once you install ScribeFire you can create and edit blog posts from within the [...]

A number of thoughts on why Podshow, who recently changed their name to Mevio, is failing. They have a number of problems that have nothing to do with audio-based media, the name “Podcasting”, or user generated content.
Post on Utterz.

The Associated Press has launched a new mobile news website optimized for the iPhone. I’ve been trying it out this morning and I’m finding the experience to be a good one.
The site integrates photo galleries and videos optimized for viewing in the iPhone. Users can set local news options and send stories via email or [...]