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Audioblogging in Blogger

Believe it or not, you can put your actual voice right into a Blogger entry. Doing so is free to all Blogger users and fairly easy. Blogging in audio is called audioblogging, and Blogger uses a service called Audioblogger (located at www.audioblogger.com). Once you get the hang of putting an audio message in a blog entry, you can also place one in your profile page. How does it all work? First you establish an account with Audioblogger (again, it’s free). Then you call a phone number to record your voice entry. Your recording, up to five minutes in length, is automatically posted to your blog within seconds after you hang up.

The entry consists of an audioblogging icon; visitors click the icon to hear your recording. The audio file is recorded in MP3 format; to hear it, a visitor must have MP3-playing software on his or her computer. (Such software is installed on nearly all computers built in the last several years.) When someone clicks the audio file icon in your blog entry, that software opens and plays your voice entry.

Some people use audioblogging as their main, or sole, type of blog post. Others use it occasionally and support each audio entry with written text. You are free to experiment. You might use it only once, or you might fall in love with blogging in this manner.

Your audio entries are editable just as your written entries are. The audio entries appear on the Edit Posts page along with text entries. You cannot edit the audio, however. You can add a title — I try to do this as soon as possible, because audio entries get posted without titles. And you can add text that explains or enhances the audio.