Awakened Voice

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 [...]

Not very long if you ask Chris Pirillo. He recently stated that, “…intelligent Drupal developers are in absolute short supply - to the point where I don’t think the platform will be around for too much longer.”
I do believe that the world needs more Drupal developers but that hardly means the platform is going away. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Play the web is the trademarked phrase that the makers of Songbird put front and center on their website. You can do a lot more than play the web with Songbird though. You can play the web and manage media on your computer.
I discovered Songbird recently and I’ve been very enamored with their free, open [...]

I have added a new tutorial to the Learning Center. This one shows you how to add video to a site based on the Drupal content management platform. Check it out here.
[tags]Social Media, Drupal, Video, Screencast, Educational, How To, Open Source[/tags]
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The new Automattic Stats plugin allows standalone WordPress users to get the same stats users of WordPress.com get for their blog pages.
The stats that you get on WordPress.com are basic but are a good alternative to Google Analytics for those who want to answer very basic questions about how many people are reading their blog [...]

Prepare to be blown away. Everyone knows that the one-two punch of iTunes and (a distant second) Windows Media Player has dominated the desktop media player market for years now.
And since iTunes added podcast subscription and a directory in June 2005 it has been the defacto app for finding and subscribing to podcasts. That could [...]