This new feature I've been toying with has serious potential. Posting an .mp3 file using the phone is so easy that as a dial-up user I can no longer stave off a post because I'm too lazy to connect to the internet. So, what's the point of continuing to use text if posting via phone is so easy? I suppose conventional blogging will continue in the face of this voice alternative, just as newspapers and magazines continued long after the popularization of radio broadcasting. Audioblogging is just another trick in the bag to play with when the occasion strikes.
I was surprised to hear that the finished product sounded good. I figured that the combination of a long distance call and computer encoding would make it sound muddy or distorted, but it didn't. AudioBlogger records .mp3 files in 64kbps bit rate and 22khz sample rate. These are acceptable parameters considering its telephone quality voice. The end product is something I don't feel bad about other people on the web hearing.
