"Dave Winer and I have been talking about audio blogs and how to set them up so that publishing an audio post will be as simple as a written weblog post.

We both agree that the telephone is the obvious interface for this, but we need a service that handles the audio.

The hardest part is not sounding like an idiot when doing a solo-post. I can see interviews working much better.

Anyway, I gave it a shot at about 1:30am and couldn't get it into an mp3, but if you're interested, check out the .au Audio Blog Post (about 800k) let me know what you think." [Adam Curry's Weblog]

I was expecting the audio file to appear as an enclosure in my aggregator, so I was surprised I couldn't hear it right from there. And speaking of enclosures, I was going to email Adam and ask if I've been missing posts to his Fresh Free Music feed, because I only got the one enclosure for Bari Koral back in April, but I can't find his email address. I know Adam's a busy guy (understatement), so I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything!

Addendum: Meryl rightly points out that we need to make sure audio blogs are accessible, but that should be fairly easy. If it's an audio version of an existing text post, then there's no problem. If the audio is new content, though, that presents a new problem that I don't think technology can handle quite yet. What we need is OCR for voice (basically voice transcription) and unfortunately a workable solution is still a ways in the future. Something to keep in mind, though.