After I saw what could be done with audio blogging, and slept on it for one evening, I just had to try it out. I pulled my credit card out of my wallet, surfed over to audioblog.com, and signed up for a 7 day trial just to see what it was all about.
Literally within minutes, certainly less than 5 minutes, I was publishing audio clips to my existing blogs like this one. I didn’t even have to setup any special software since audioblog allowed me to record using my browser and microphone. Publishing to my blogs was as simple as telling audioblog what my blog provider, username, and password is so that it could log in and do the posting for me.
Of course, the next step was to see what value audio could add to my blogs. One of my most popular blogs is my favorite quotes website, so it was natural to add audio commentary to the quotes I post there almost daily. Many of my readers are non-native English speakers that want to hear a native speaker, like me, pronounce the words, so adding audio should make the experience much more useful for them.
So, why not videoblogging? Why not indeed! This weekend we had our local neighborhood summer festival (matsuri), so I took along my digital camera and recorded a few videos. Publishing them to my blogs only took a few minutes – and most of that was the time that it took to upload the video clips. I’ve included my favorite clip below, and you can see others on my What’s Up blog.
Oh – I also said cheap. The current audioblog.com subscription is less than USD$5.00/month and includes 5 Gbytes of bandwidth/month. They say on the website that a Pro version is in the works. I can hardly wait.
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