digitalreporter wrote:
] ] The latest trend in the increasingly popular Web log--a
] ] personal or professional online diary--is audioblogging,
] ] the posting of audio clips instead of or alongside text
] ] entries. In addition to providing a new means of keeping
] ] bloggers' fans up to date, the audioblog is inspiring
] ] software developers and start-ups to raise a whole new
] ] crop of tools and services.

I don't think that audio blogging is going to take over. Its not a better interface. Its not easy to edit, and its a pain for the poster because you have to download an mp3. Furthermore, it eliminates the ability to scan content and see if you want to read it in detail. This is really important on the web. I think that people, when faced with an uncommented audio recording on someone's blog, are unlikely to click on it. I think camera phones are a much bigger deal because the web is a visual medium. There is a lot of audio blogging right now because its the neato new hip thing, but I think a lot of it will go away. This stuff isn't going to stick until you've got video. Streaming video from your cellphone is going to require much more bandwidth. We're a moore's law cycle away at least.

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