Awakened Voice

I’ve upgraded my personal and family website to Movable Type 4. The changes are not visible to anyone but me as the admin for the sites.
At first glance it looks very slick. Movable Type is definitely heading towards WordPress type usability and features. It might even be there already.
I’ll know more in a few weeks [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

I received a nice comment from one of Ning’s product managers after pointing out some issues with search and spam/seo activity on a post yesterday.
I also noticed that CEO Gina Bianchini has posted on the spam issue to the Ning blog.
Its heartening to know that they are willing to address these issues at a very [...]

Roll your own social network service Ning has been getting a lot of buzz in recent months. They have a big name on their founders list with former Netscaper Marc Andreesen. They also have a boat load of great features that make it easy for just about anyone to create a media rich social network.
Like [...]

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 pride myself on the fact that I am cross platform proficient when it comes to social media. I’ve done a lot with both Drupal and WordPress as many visitors to the site here can probably guess.
I’ve been spending a bit more time on another very popular blog platform lately though. Movable Type has been [...]

Big files and file formats are both a pain in the butt. Especially when you’re dealing with rich media on the web. That’s why I’ve recently used the two services I’m mentioning here.
You Send It solves a very simple problem that is not so hard for the average web user to deal with. They let [...]

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 [...]

Are rumors of the death of the traditional webmaster greatly exaggerated? Maybe not. I’ve stated previously that a new type of webmaster is needed in order to leverage the powerful new tools available to those doing business via the web.
This video features Drupal founder Dries Buytaert speaking at the Open Source CMS Summit at Yahoo! [...]