Awakened Voice

The folks who make Democracy Player have posted a Video Podcast Shootout comparing their offering with iTunes. Democracy Player is free, open-source software that assists you with management of video podcasts.
There are some very compelling reasons to choose Democracy Player over iTunes for your video aggregator of choice. Democracy was built from the ground up [...]

Earlier this evening I listened to an excellent conversation between Jon Udell of InfoWorld and Mike Hudack of the Blip.tv video blog service.
Blip.tv is one of the many services that allows people to host and distribute their videos for the very nice price of free. I tried them out in late 2005 only a few [...]

The folks over at the Participatory Culture Foundation have been working hard for months on a pair of free products that aim to make it easier for people to publish and subscribe to video on the internet.
Their Broadcast Machine product allows people to create web based communities centered around video. You can post just your [...]

I was very excited to find a post on Digg that indicated that Al Pacino would be appearing in a series of Video Podcasts in order to promote the stage production of Salome in Los Angeles.
I swung over to the article on the Wall Street Journal website to see what it was all about. Right [...]

Vloggercon is coming to San Francisco on June 10th and 11th. The event will take place at the Swedish American Hall. Tickets are $40 for one day and $60 for both days.
According to the official conference website, “VLOGGERCON 2006 is the intersection between media-makers and technology. A space for dialog and interaction.”
The market for [...]

I always take note when something is called obsolete. In many cases this assessment is true at one time or another. If you were to say, “the Sony Walkman cassette player is obsolete.” I (and most other people) would certainly agree. But if you told me that blogs were obsolete then that would be a [...]