Audioblogging

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Audioblogging is a variant on the blogging trend of online self-publishing, using audio to reach the audience instead of text used by traditional blogs. Audioblogs have similar form as blogs, using post-based entries cataloged by time and date. There is usually a title and brief description, but the bulk of content is in the linked audio file. Usually audioblogs are MP3 format, but occasionally in Ogg Vorbis, AAC, or Macromedia Flash formats.

Many audiobloggers are also text bloggers and use both types of posts on their blogs. It can be claimed that if a blog post contains a linked audio file, the weblog is also technically an audioblog.

The year 2004 was the tipping point for audioblogging. A group of audiobloggers started to unite around the use of RSS enclosures with their audioblog posts and a radio like content format. As media attention grew aroung this new style of audio distribution, a community started to grow. Audioblogs that have come to use RSS are technically known as podcasts.