Awakened Voice

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.
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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 [...]

I received an email a couple of days ago informing me that the Awakened Voice Learning Center will soon be featured on the Miro Guide. The Miro Guide is a web-based video directory that is also built in to the Miro desktop based video player.
It’s always nice to be recognized. So thanks to the people [...]

I’ve decided to join the slowing growing ranks of people who are extricating themselves from the ranks of the Twitterati. I’ve come to feel that while Twitter is a lot of fun at times, it’s also not adding any real value to my life.
Participation in Twitter has revealed a couple of telling things to me. [...]

There are four very important steps in the podcasting process. In fact, if you call yourself a podcaster your expertise really needs to be focused on the following areas.

Prepare - to create quality shows that people will want to consume.
Produce - so that the final product is concise, listenable and/or watchable.
Publish - to the web [...]

This is something I’ve been working on for a few weeks now. There are many Drupal learning resources out there. I even point to some of the best ones I’ve found in this document. The Beginner’s Guide To Drupal is meant to be a starting point for people who are very new to the Drupal [...]

One frequent query by people who are new to publishing audio or video is, “What’s a good Flash player to put on my website?” Adobe’s Flash is a universally recognized standard for embedding media within web pages so the question makes a lot of sense.
Direct media links to mp3 or Quicktime files for example make [...]

Some thoughts on the discussion about whether or not podcasting is an industry. It is an industry for the companies producing the technology. Content producers are in another business altogether.
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I met Vineet Gupta at the recent DrupalCampNYC event. Vineet is a technology evangelist and engineer for Daylife. Daylife is a social news site that is providing application developers with tools that allow them to include dynamic news in websites by leveraging the Daylife technology platform.
I’ve been keeping an eye on Daylife since their launch [...]

The Drupal platform has always lacked in one area that interests lots of people. The inclusion of rich media (video, audio, photos) into Drupal sites has historically been achieved by node focused solutions. Modules like Video and Audio attach media to specific nodes. These modules work well for certain implementations. But the issue of a [...]