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Tag: Audioblog

  • The blogger Dave Winer invented podcasts. And he posts ‘podcasts’ to his blog scripting.com.

    But to most people, they’re not podcasts, as he is just quickly sharing his thoughts in audio form.

    And to me they’re not podcasts either.

    I like them though. And I’d like to try doing some on my blog. Only with a different name.

    And since I did my first one a few minutes ago I had to think up a name. I struggled. I even asked a LLM. I wanted something catchy and smart.

    In the end I liked the simplest and most obvious: audioblog.

    Update: Although if you say you’ve “released an audioblog’ it sounds like the blog itself, not an individual post. Mmm. Maybe ‘audiopost’ would be better? Or ‘spokenpost’? We’ll see. One for future Elliot to decide. Not 1am Elliot.

  • Audioblog. I want to read the body of a post when browsing a blog. Why do so many blogs just list titles, requiring me to have to click one-by-one to read posts?

    I’m not sure. But I recorded a quick audioblog talking about it.

    Don’t have time to listen? I asked a LLM to turn it into a blog post:

    Most blogs show just a list of titles. Click. Read. Back. Click. Read. Back.

    I prefer seeing entire posts on one page, one after another. Just scroll and read.

    It puzzles me how many blogging platforms default to title-only lists. Why?

    Maybe it’s just my way of reading. I like scanning quickly through content, letting interesting bits catch my eye. Others might prefer a more methodical approach: carefully selecting posts from a clean list of titles.

    The title-only approach does add a certain weight to each post. When you click through to a dedicated page, it feels more substantial, like you’re about to read something significant.

    But for short posts especially, I want to just scroll and read. No clicks needed.

    Curious to hear from those who prefer the title-list approach. What am I missing?