RAZZ wants bloggers to mouth off, audibly

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RAZZ wants bloggers to mouth off, audibly

by Ryan Carter (RSS feed) Nov 5th 2006 at 8:25AM

RAZZ is a simple way to record and post web audio to your blog, MySpace, or other social networking site. Creating a RAZZ is a way to make a short sound clip (up to a minute long) and put it on your site. RAZZ wants to be the audio for your blog like many of the photo, video, or slideshow sharing sites. Audio has in fact been largely ignored, but is it really the next phase in the socio-digital revolution? I think it could be, but don't know if we really have a good idea of who and how many people would use audio so religiously as something like, YouTube for example. RAZZ is a good way to make this whole audio invasion thing happen, since the process is deceptively simple and even fun. See what you think of RAZZ, and while you are at it, let me know what you think about audio being the next video on social networking sites. Do you think audio snippets are a viable and viral communications tool online, or just a pipe-dream for companies who just had the idea to do it? Would you participate in audio-messaging on a site or blog? Do you already? I'm curious what the verdict here will be.

Tags: audio, blog, message, mixer, MySpace, online, RAZZ

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Dave Gray said 10:23AM on 11-05-2006

We have an Odeo Comment button inserted into every podcast show notes. This is to invite people to send us an audio message. It is not that popular with our listeners... Why? Not sure, they have the option to "opt out" of it being played in the show but even so we get a message infrequently. We love them as they give listeners a chance to be on the show by proxy and it is fun and easy.

I don't think it gets any easier than Odeo, but still only the odd punter. Suprising really given your commentary.

notnamed said 7:13PM on 11-05-2006

I can see using audio for participation in podcasts and such (like the first comment), but I don't see the point in adding it to a website/blog/myspace - why not just add video? There's a big stigma on the web about audio that started with background music on Geocities websites, although it is somewhat diminished with the popularity of adding music to one's myspace page (which I find just as annoying as horrible MIDIs on a personal website).
So, no, I don't think that audio is the next big thing omg. Why should it be?

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