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Audio Blogs: Online Diarists Sound Off

"In the 18th century, people recorded the mundane details of life in diaries. Today, bloggers -- or Web loggers -- share their most intimate thoughts and opinions with the entire world on the Internet. The online journals, known as "blogs," are increasingly popular. And while they've been dominated by text and photos, they're now also going in a new direction, using audio as well.

NPR's Ari Shapiro reports on "audio blogs" -- online audio diaries that can make anyone's life a serial drama. New technology allows them to be updated via a simple phone call....

Moorehead predicts that once the novelty of audio blogging subsides, it will become just another tool in a blogger's repertoire.

Since audio blogs are relatively new, they don't yet cover the range of their written equivalents. But some people are already using audio in creative ways. A site called The Quiet American provides audio travelogues submitted by people around in a feature called 'one-minute vacations.' " [NPR, via weblogged News]

I agree with Will that this article is already behind the curve by not even noting moblogging. Maybe this will hit the BigPub press by the end of the year when combination cell phone cameras are more prevalent. As usual, Japanese youth are ahead of the U.S.

I was starting to lean towards the Sony P800 until I saw that the Nokia 6800 may be released in the U.S. soon. Now I'm back on the fence. :-

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