Audioblogging is a variant on the blogging trend of periodic internet self-publishing, but using audio as a means of communicating with the audience instead of the text used by standard blogs. Audioblogs take the same form as a blog using post-based entries split by time and date, except there is usually a title and brief description, with the bulk of content in a linked audio file, often in MP3 format (see MP3 blog), but sometimes in Ogg Vorbis, AAC, or Macromedia Flash formats.
Many Audiobloggers are also text bloggers and mixed the two types of posts on their weblogs. It has been said that if a blog post contains a linked audio file, the weblog is also technically an Audioblog.
The year 2004 was the tipping point for Audioblogging. Up to late 2004 audioblogging had not become very popular, mainly due to the lack of audioblogging community building websites mixed with the lack of availability of indexability and transcribing tools. To overcome some of these limitations, a group of Audiobloggers in late 2004 started to unite around the use of RSS enclosures with their long audioblog posts and a radio like content format (the podcasting idea). As media attention grew aroung this new style of Audioblogging a community started to grow. Much of what was known at the time as Audioblogging morphed into what today is called podcasting.
Podcasting will surely have an impact on the future of Audioblogging.
See also Videoblogging
External link
- Information on audioblogs
