Awakened Voice

There’s so much buzz over free video hosting sites that sometimes my head hurts. Blip.tv continues to cut through the buzz by honing the features available via their video publishing service.
They announced a new show player yesterday as part of a scheduled upgrade of the service. I learned this info while I was in the [...]

I’ve been quieter than normal recently because I’ve been working hard on some other things related to my duties at RawVoice. I’ve organized a charitable campaign called The Blubrry Jam To Fight Cystic Fibrosis.
The goal of the campaign is to raise funds for the Boomer Esiason Foundation’s Exercise For Life Scholarship fund. This fund benefits [...]

I’ve always thought that instant messaging (IM) could be a very powerful social catalyst. Likewise I think that it can be a more effective business tool. One reason that many businesses shy away from using IM more is the lack of security. Another problem with IM as a communication tool has been the difficulty integrating [...]

Neville Hobson has done an analysis of his RSS feed subscriber stats since Google started reporting statistics on subscribers via Google’s Reader and Home Page services.
He concludes that Google Reader, ” is making its mark as an RSS aggregator.” He sees a larger percentage of subscribers now using Google tools as opposed to other popular [...]

So far I’ve found two excellent uses of the Yahoo Pipes service.

Aggregate a group of feeds into a single feed. I did that here.
Create a tool to search for a term across multiple sites. I did that here.

One of the coolest things about Yahoo Pipes is the fact that you can view and edit the [...]

I’ve spent quite a bit of time publishing and consuming content on both Google Video and YouTube over the last year and a half. As a result I’ve come to some definite conclusions on how business can and should use both services.
Since both services are now owned by Google they are in the unique position [...]

The new Blogger has been out of beta for a little while now so recently I decided to switch some of my podcast sites based on Blogger over from the old version to the new and improved version.
Despite multiple assurances on the screen that everything would be okay with the switch over something has happened [...]

I got a nice note from Dries Buytaert this morning. Dries is the founder and maintainer of Drupal. He thinks my Drupal 5 Overview Tour, “…makes for a great introduction!”
I’m thankful for Dries’ (and many others) contributions in building this excellent platform. And since I can’t code a lick I figured that this was the [...]

WordPress 2.1 is out and contains some significant upgrades that publishers will really like. Drupal 5.0 was recently released and contains some significant upgrades that make it easier to use and more flexible than ever. So which one should you use to satisfy your web publishing needs?
First off, if you’re currently invested in one package [...]

I’ve been working hard while at DrupalCampNYC creating a new Drupal 5 screencast for the Learning Center. It’s a bit long but Drupal does so much it’s really hard to be comprehensive in a short amount of time. So if you’ve got about 22 minutes then stop by the Drupal 5 Tour.
[tags]Social Media, Lessons, Screencast, [...]