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Dialing for bloggers | CNET News.com
by digitalreporter at 10:19 am EST, Feb 25, 2003 |
] Updating a Weg log, already simplified by automated
] blogging sites, is now as easy as picking up the phone.
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] The latest trend in the increasingly popular Web log--a
] personal or professional online diary--is audioblogging,
] the posting of audio clips instead of or alongside text
] entries. In addition to providing a new means of keeping
] bloggers' fans up to date, the audioblog is inspiring
] software developers and start-ups to raise a whole new
] crop of tools and services.
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] Along with audioblogging, plain-text blogging is
] undergoing a subtle transformation as people begin to use
] their cell phones and other mobile devices to send
] written updates to their Web logs. This technique is
] sometimes called "moblogging," short for mobile blogging.
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] One application developer said moblogging would
] accelerate the transformation blogging has already
] wrought on the dissemination of news and personal
] experience. |
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RE: Dialing for bloggers | CNET News.com
by Decius at 6:37 pm EST, Feb 25, 2003 |
digitalreporter wrote:
] ] The latest trend in the increasingly popular Web log--a
] ] personal or professional online diary--is audioblogging,
] ] the posting of audio clips instead of or alongside text
] ] entries. In addition to providing a new means of keeping
] ] bloggers' fans up to date, the audioblog is inspiring
] ] software developers and start-ups to raise a whole new
] ] crop of tools and services. I don't think that audio blogging is going to take over. Its not a better interface. Its not easy to edit, and its a pain for the poster because you have to download an mp3. Furthermore, it eliminates the ability to scan content and see if you want to read it in detail. This is really important on the web. I think that people, when faced with an uncommented audio recording on someone's blog, are unlikely to click on it. I think camera phones are a much bigger deal because the web is a visual medium. There is a lot of audio blogging right now because its the neato new hip thing, but I think a lot of it will go away. This stuff isn't going to stick until you've got video. Streaming video from your cellphone is going to require much more bandwidth. We're a moore's law cycle away at least. |
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