phoneblogz

I came across another great plugin for wordpress, so now I have several plugins to serve the purpose of podcasting and posting mp3 files.

Phoneblogz is unique, though. It’s similar to the old blogger deal where you could call in to a number, and record a voice blog via the phone and then have it published to your website.

The difference is; this isn’t blogger! And I don’t think blogger is offering that service anymore. When a message is left at phoneblogz, a page is requested on my Wordpress site that tells it to check phoneblogz.com for new messages. If any new messages are found, they are posted to the blog.

I didn’t have the blog configured correctly to have the test I just did automatically post. So in another day or three I’m going to try doing this with the automatic post function and see how well that works.

I will be playing around with this, so bear with me as I experiment. I am still not sure if I can get this to post automatically; but if I can, it’ll just be another little bit of fun I’m going to have with the blog, and a little bit of fun you guys can have with listening to quick ten-minute snippets of ME posting audioblogs away from my computer. You may have already noticed I set up a new section here for phoneblogz; and we’ll just see how it goes.

I started with a small package, which will let me record two 10-minute phoneblogz each day, which will probaby be more than I’ll need to start out with.

This guy should really be podcasting, since all the subject matter at his blogspot blog is about podcasting and Melodeo, and he himself had a radio program for seven years online (which must have been one of the first). If you’re going to talk about the technology that enables people to download podcasts to mobile phones, you should be podcasting, methinks!