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Monday, February 21, 2005
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Podcasting and Audioblogging distribution methods defined
As I end today's ride down Audioblogging memory lane, I like to end with stating an observation I hope everyone takes away:
"podcasting" and "audioblogging" both use weblog distribution mechanisms for distributing audio files on the web.
Audioblogging uses the weblog post and RSS 2.0 feeds with enclosures to distribute an audio file. While podcasting also uses the weblog post and RSS 2.0 feeds with enclosures to distribute a media file (even though audio is primarily used today, I'm not really sure if it is limited to audio or if that has been defined or even being discussed).
The main difference lies in the fact that in Audioblogging, RSS 2.0 enclosures is an optional feature while in podcasting it is not. In podcasting the weblog post is an optional feature while in audioblogging it is not.
Audioblogging software will probably just look at podcasting as a relabeling of a existing feature or additional feature if the software doesn't already support RSS enclosures (a feature of Audioblogging that I have been asking phone to audioblog services to include with there service for years).
Confussed! I am why shouldn't everybody else be.
The confusion started when Podcasting was defined as a style of audio (the radio show) tied to similiar distribution mechanisms used by an existing defined weblog based audio distribution method - Audioblogging.
So what does this all mean:
If you put an audio file link in a weblog post without including that audio file link in a RSS 2.0 feed enclosure, you are Audioblogging and maybe Podcasting. If you then include that same audio link in the RSS 2.0 feed enclosure, you are Audioblogging and Podcasting.
The attributes of the audio file such as audio format, audio quality, style of the content are not defined in Audioblogging. As far as Podcasting goes, the style of the content has been tied so far to Radio style shows but nothing says that couldn't change.
Now back to our regularly scheduled program.
3:10:24 PM 
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Friday, May 14, 2004 -> Audioblogger is free
Notice how below I wrote "phone created audioblogs" and something I called the BlogAudSphere.
From an email reply from Audioblogger that was posted on the blog Alternate Means and quoted below, it looks like Listenlab, the creators of AudBlog are now offering their phone based audioblogging service designed for Blogger customers, Audioblogger for free.
Looks like all you need to do is setup a free Blogger (http://www.blogger.com/ account to use it.
If this is true, we will surely see an increase in the number of phone created audioblogs in the BlogAudSphere. This is great news for the audioblogging community. Great move!! Thank you Audioblogger!!!
"We are pleased to announce that Listenlab, the company behind
Audioblogger, in partnership with Blogger (http://www.blogger.com/)
and Google will be bringing you unlimited audio blogging services free
of charge. We are making vast improvements to the service so that
blogging will be easier than ever.
Since Audioblogger is now free your PayPal subscription has been
cancelled.
Thank you for making this happen. You were the early adopters that said
that this was a good idea and supported it. Now to repay your support,
the service is yours to use for free.
Thank you and enjoy Audioblogger,
The Audioblogger team
http://www.audioblogger.com/"
2:15:08 PM
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Scripting News: Thursday, August 12, 2004 -> "Today's audio blog post is about the faceoff between journalists and bloggers. It's in the air, coming up all over the place. In talking about it with people I've learned a lot. My story doesn't work all that well in writing, yet, so I did it in an audio post. Please listen. Thanks!"
1:51:47 PM
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Friday, May 07, 2004 -> The 3-way audioblogging interview
I like listening to Doug Kenline's audioblogging show. Doug has pretty much pioneered the audioblogging 3-way call interview and I'm sure him and Eric will figure out the glitch/bug that caused audioblog.com/moblog to stop when Doug tried bringing in the second line during a 3-way call.
Thanks Doug for letting us listen to and read about your daily audioblogging experiment.
File this post under audioblogging theory 101.
Well I thought I had a huge breakthrough but the recording stopped when I went to go and try to bring in another line using the 3-way call. Well at least we got it to work with the telephone instead of the computer microphone.
I need to be able to do three-way calling telephone interviews. Well we'll keep at it and we'll get it going sooner or later. Maybe it was something I did.
Thank you Eric Rice.
from Doug Kenline's Audioblog
1:14:44 PM
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Tuesday, May 04, 2004 - Audioblogging theory 101
Sometimes there is a need to have more then 1 audio file in an audioblogging post. The Kill Bill 2 review this morning is a perfect example of when there is a need.
I like to think that any one audioblogging post as simply a set of one or more audio files and a day of audioblogging as a day's collection of posts or audioblogging sets.
File this post under audioblogging theory 101.
 Listen to audioblogging theory 101: This supporting audioblogging post is more then me reading the above text post. You can think of the supporting text post as the meta data behind an audio blogging post mostly needed for Google, Technorati and other serach engines to find it.
1:03:52 PM
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004 -> On Tuesday, April 27, 2004 we covered and celebrated the beta release of Audioblog.com. here on the blog. And yes, with Audioblog.com you can audioblog more then just phone to blog type audioblogs. and I'm sure there feature set will evolve.
From Audioblog.com feature page:
- Upload MP3 or WAV format files
You may upload your MP3 or WAV format audio files to Audioblog.com and we will automatically prepare them for streaming in just seconds. No need to buy and learn complex audio editing software, just upload it to us and let us do the hard work.
Audioblog.com is Beta
audioblog.com -> A new site/service from Eric Rice for creating audioblogs went beta. If you have a Movable Type, TypePad, Blogger, or Live Journal site (or any other Blogger/MetaWeblog type system), audioblog.com plugs right in. Radio Userland coming soon...
Congrats Eric.
12:33:06 PM
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10:59:31 AM
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Ron Greenlee's comment left on my blog from September 2002
Rob Greenlee comment from http://www.webtalkguys.com • 9/9/02 -> Audio Blogging: Create the audio first and then write the text with links to supporting info within your audio blog text area. Audio Bloggers need to use streaming and not require visitors to download mp3's. I think that the written blog needs to be different from the audio, but should support the audio blog message with links and supporting info. These blogs could also involve conversations with others about points made in the audio and text blog. Rob Greenlee Host of WebTalkGuys Radio on CNET Radio.
10:54:41 AM
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WebTalkGuys Radio Newsletter for October 22, 2002
http://www.webtalkguys.com
  Monday was a pretty exciting day around the WebTalkGuys studios. After nearly four years and 200 shows, we saw Oct. 21 become our second most streamed day. We streamed 8.4 Gb of audio. Just to give you an example, our typical 1-hour show is a 7 Mb stream.
 Upon further research, we found the reason: our Oct. 12 show on Weblogs and Audioblogging, was recommended and linked to from Adam Curry's popular weblog. Yes, Adam is THE founding MTV VJ, fondly remembered by '80's rockers like ourselves. Read Adam's blog here.
10:45:27 AM
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Russell Beattie: Saturday, July 27, 2002 08:00:01 AM -> Thoughts on Audio Blogging...
As you will see below, some great ideas were discussed by a few of us in July, 2002. It was these discussions that sparked the frenzy that soon followed in August.
We shared our ideas and thoughts with anyone that wanted to listen or join in. That is what webloggers do. These ideas could have easily became patents. But no, we continued to share our ideas on our weblogs and with anyone that had a RSS aggregator. Who is that said that patents are bad? Sometimes I really wonder.
Hmmm... the camblog file I just posted has problems... I should be able to stream over HTTP, but it doesn't seem to be, though I've made a RAM file and everything. Hmmm. I'll to play with it.
What's cool is that Howard Gilchrist is playing with audio blogging too! What's not cool, however, is it seems that Radio Userland won't let him upstream MP3 files. Huh? I just bought Radio for interop reasons, so I'll have to test it out.
Maybe someone can enlighten us... is this true? Dave, is this some sort of anti-piracy thing or is it just the default settings to make sure some newbie user doesn't accidentally upload all their files. Radio probably looks for just 'internet' files like html, gif and jpgs to make sure some bozo doesn't drop their Outlook mailbox in the upstreaming file for all to see... But I could be wrong...
Howard also emailed me with some of his thoughts on audio-blogging:
I always wanted an Internet app that let you gather up a bunch of community specific audio files off the net to listen to during the drive to work. Here in New Jersey alot of us drive over any hour to work.
FM/AM radio in the New York metro area has really gone down the tubes. Would be cool to listen to new audioblogs on the way to work, download new ones before leaving work and listen to some more on the way home.
Which are really similar to Quentin's ideas:
... the reason I wanted to do this was because it would have been another excuse to buy an iPod. Imagine an audio news aggregator, which would dump the audioblogs you'd subscribed to onto your iPod whenever you synched it. You could then peruse them using the nice iPod interface. A build-your-own radio station. And yes, it would be even better if real radio stations incorporated RSS-type subscription mechanisms. They should be less concerned about syndication than other online publications, because they would still be able to embed advertisments and jingles in the audio.
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