Awakened Voice

In late September of 2007 my brand new iPod Touch arrived. This was my first iPod ever and also my first ever purchase of an Apple product. I wanted to share my thoughts about the device but I also know that first look reviews aren’t very useful. People are usually excited to get something new [...]

There are many people weighing in on the iPod Touch with their own reviews so I figured I’d throw my own piece of wood onto the fire. How amazing is it that we now have opinions from thousands of people rather than just a few reviews by mainstream outlets? I think its great. And that’s [...]

Gigavox Media released a new tool at the Podcast Expo called The Levelator. The Levelator is a free tool that enhances audio by performing a combination of tasks that more experienced audio engineers would perform by using effects like compression, limiting and normalization.
According the Gigavox, The Levelator “…adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or [...]

There’s probably no more fitting way to end the week of Open Source tools by highlighting the mack daddy of free blogging tools. I’m talking about WordPress of course.
Stand around a room full of bloggers and start talking about blogging tools. You’ll hear people mention Movable Type, Typepad, Typo and Blogger along with WordPress.
I’ve used (and still [...]

One of the biggest problems that organizations have is efficiency in collaboration. Just recently I talked to a colleague who was frustrated about the process of sharing large files via email. People sending him email would constantly get the dreaded ‘mailbox full’ notification.
Wikis offer an alternative approach to mailing documents back and forth. As many [...]

I’ve come to think of RSS as the grease for the social web. If that’s true then I think it’s fair to say that a tool called Feed2JS is the grease gun, easily allowing users to insert the grease where it needs to go.
Feed2JS is short for “Feed To Javascript”. The tool allows you to convert [...]

In preparing to write a post about another great social web tool I suddenly had a problem. I didn’t know what to call it. This tool is not easy to describe because it can help you to do so many different things on the web.
This tool can allow you to host one or many [...]

Let me introduce you to Vanilla. You are probably thinking that you don’t need any introduction to Vanilla since there’s a decent chance that it’s already your favorite flavor of ice cream. But I happen to be talking about a different flavor of Vanilla.
Vanilla is Open Source community forum software. When most people think [...]

A couple of weeks ago I started trying out Windows Live Writer, a desktop based blog post creation tool developed by Microsoft. I’m happy to say that so far this new tool has worked very well for me.
Over the past couple of years I’ve tried out a number of tools for short periods with little [...]

MARCH 2008 UPDATE: I wrote this post nearly two years ago and a lot has changed with these systems. I have added updates to reflect the changes in the systems. Updates are in italics.
If you’re just getting into Blogging, RSS and even Podcasting you may want to consider a low risk approach to the matter. [...]