Dave Linthicum's weekly podcast discusses my article on CIO.com about the top 10 mistakes people make while trying to deliver SOA. Dave does a great job breaking down the list. You can hear the podcast here.
I have been experimenting with Jott lately. Jott is a service that let's you translate voice messages to many different services like SMS text messages, Twitter messages, and blog posts. I just tested the Jott to Blog functionality. Since Jott messages cannot exceed 30 seconds, I refer to this as "Micro Podcasting". Is this useful? The jury is still out, but it is simple to do.
So below is a transcript of my voice message. You can see that Jott butchered my message. Luckily, it creates a blog post in draft mode which gives the blog author a chance to touch it up. For the sake of showing how this works, I am leaving the transcript unedited. At the end of the micro podcast you can click on the link to listen to the actual message. Enjoy!
This is my first test of what I am calling micro podcasting, what that is it is using jott we have short podcast and it will go right in your phone into your ____ account, it's pretty cool stuff. I checked this out last night and sent my first twitt using jott and in twitter there is a turn called micro blogging and that sending out short information ___ to blogs, here I am doing micro podcasting leaving out short messages, voice messages, so that's it for today my first micro podcast. listen
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I have created many Jott's and most of them translate very well. For some reason this Jott did not translate well. The key is to speak clearly and slow enough so that Jott can create a clean translation. With all that aside, it is pretty cool that I can speak into a phone and create a blog post that has both a transcript of my voice mail and a link to the actual voice message.
I am in the process of starting my own company that will build an exciting new product leveraging many Web 2.0 tools (more on this in the future). I am working on a marketing strategy and podcasts will be one of the many social networking tools that I will leverage. So today I created my first podcast and figured out how to embed it into my blog. I was also able to add it to iTunes and play it on my iPhone. I had to hunt all over the web to figure out how to do all of this. I will put all of the steps here so the next person can get up and running in minutes. But first, listen to my podcast that describes the steps. Then follow the details below and your blog will be in podcast heaven!
Get your own playlist at snapdrive.net!
Now here are the steps so you too can embed podcasts into your blog.
- Download Audacity (I chose the beta version)
- Download the MP3 Plugin
- Run Audacity and record your podcast
- Export file to MP3
- Register on Snapdrive.net for file sharing (or use your favorite site)
- Upload your MP3 file
- Click on details and select "create a streaming flash player"
- Choose options and generate embedded HTML code
- Cut and paste code into your blog
I love how the web is transforming the way we communicate. It is so easy to share rich content like podcasts, videos, and images. If you have any issues trying to get your podcast to run from your blog, leave me a comment and I will assist you the best I can. Good luck!
