Audblog.com - Integrating audio into blogging
I’m still thinking about this one…adding audio to blogs. And about audio in general.
I was browsing someone’s blog (you have to click on journal) and after a while I noticed that there were “audio posts.” If you check out Audblog, basically you record the message via phone and have the audio file emailed to you. Then I started thinking…why couldn’t I just do that with my own mic? But what would I want to say to people via audio anyway?
Oddly, listening to random audio clips of someone’s thoughts feels even more intrusive than reading their private thoughts (albeit, both are purposely being made public). I was surprised to feel that. There’s something that’s so personal about the sound of someone’s voice. I assume the Audblog service is designed to integrate more seamlessly with existing blogging tools, which would be the advantage over just incorporating one’s own audio feed.
I wonder too, if the difference of how one records a message would affect the message? Would you be inclined to say different types of things with a phone cradled to your ear, rather than hunched over a microphone? Does the medium of how the sound is recorded affect the message?
