... BEEEP!

March 19, 2004 12:51 PM

At the tone, please leave your snark...This is a pretty cool application of technology. We all have heard of the slow rise of the audioblog (indeed, it was discussed here!): people posting to their blogs or journals or whatever via their phone. Eric Rice of Slack Street (previously discussed here) has taken things one step further, and added the ability to call a toll-free number and have your audio comments strung together with others, and put on his audioblog site. Still kind of wonky (gotta listen to every recorded item, instead of being able to cue between tracks, looks like comments have to be approved first using some interface, etc.), but neat! Now, instead of bitching about people's poor grammar and spelling, we can rant about crappy pronunciations and accents! And for IraqFilter fans, his newest entry is actually begging people to leave him messages on the one year anniversary. Obviously he has no idea what he's getting into. Hurrah for tech-nol-o-gee!
posted by tittergrrl (6 comments total)

I had been wondering how anyone could make the concept of audioblogging -less- flaccid. Audio comments only do so by providing a -more- flaccid alternative.

Like, really -- who wants to sit and have "er" and "um" and "I just stopped by your website and really liked it..." without a page-down?

Ick. Talk about yelling down storm drains.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 1:36 PM on March 19, 2004

Well, if strange, crazy people (as opposed to just bland keyboard-warrior bloggers) get involved in this kind of thing, it could be a return to brilliant exchanges like the Midnight Voicejail.

However: this is the internet - hasn't anyone figured out how to leave audio over the net yet without having to use a telephone? Am I the only one with one of those receptionist-style microphone headsets?
posted by Jimbob at 2:44 PM on March 19, 2004

A few months from now someone will figure out how to do audio trackback. In the background of the post, you will hear Rod Stewart singing faintly.
posted by Hildago at 3:14 PM on March 19, 2004

snark
posted by Trik at 5:00 PM on March 19, 2004

neat! Now, instead of bitching about people's poor grammar and spelling, we can rant about crappy pronunciations and accents!

classic :)
posted by scarabic at 8:27 PM on March 19, 2004

I'm arbitrarily tempted to leave a message like, "This war is real good on waffles, with some butter, a-yup."
posted by abcde at 11:00 PM on March 19, 2004