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A stinging condemnation of audioblogging that applies almost completely to videoblogging as well.

But before you jump on the audioblogging bandwagon, remember this - the power of the Web is the power to choose. You make your own trails, and your own links. You read what you like and skip the boring bits. And audioblogging takes that power of choice away. Your listeners become a passive audience - they have no power to skim, they can't skip the boring parts, they can't link or excerpt your post effectively. Your post becomes invisible to Google and other search engines. And anyone who has a hearing problem, or a dialup account, or doesn't speak your language too well, anyone who is trying to surf your site from the office, or from an Internet cafe - well, they're just plain out of luck.

(If you wanna cheat and not listen all the way through, the URL to the transcript he gives at the end (he triumphantly asserts the 'txt' extension) is http://www.idlewords.com/audio-manifesto.txt)

A stinging condemnation of audioblogging that applies almost completely to videoblogging as well.

But before you jump on the audioblogging bandwagon, remember this - the power of the Web is the power to choose. You make your own trails, and your own links. You read what you like and skip the boring bits. And audioblogging takes that power of choice away. Your listeners become a passive audience - they have no power to skim, they can't skip the boring parts, they can't link or excerpt your post effectively. Your post becomes invisible to Google and other search engines. And anyone who has a hearing problem, or a dialup account, or doesn't speak your language too well, anyone who is trying to surf your site from the office, or from an Internet cafe - well, they're just plain out of luck.

(If you wanna cheat and not listen all the way through, the URL to the transcript he gives at the end (he triumphantly asserts the 'txt' extension) is http://www.idlewords.com/audio-manifesto.txt)

The same criticism of audioblogging also applies to video blogging.

Think:

• scanning, skipping
• average reading speed: 150 wpm

Audioblogging's limitations can perhaps be alieviated by Audioblog mixing, with something like UserRadio, or playing the audioblogs at high speed.

You might be able to extend video with that, but I'd probably rather just cut the visual, so I could do other things at the same time.

So, without any evidence, you've proclaimed Google the winner for all eternity because you like them?

i'm proclaiming google the winner because i am actively working against the microsoft search by participating in the boycott

if you have a website and want to participate in the boycott it's darn simple.

1. add the following lines to your robots.txt

   User-agent: MSNBOT
   Disallow: /

2. go register yr site with the boycott page at http://www.idlewords.com/boycott.pl

then, sit back in triumph that you have struck another blow to the jugular of the beast of redmond.

no. really.