14 DAY TRIAL // The world is hardly suffering from a shortage of ways to blog. You can do it by email, you can do it from your smartphone you can even do it from your laptop, if you can imagine, and now you can do it by voice mail. WordPress.com has just introduced a new feature that allows users to, in a way, phone their blog and post voice messages. It’s not a feature that most people found themselves craving for, but it may actually have quite a few practical applications.
“[I]nstead of drunk dialing random friends, lovers, and acquaintances one at a time, what if you could dial your blog and talk to the whole world at once? It’d be like something out of Star Trek,” WordPress founder and CEO of Automattic, Matt Mullenweg details one possible use of the feature.
“The future is now, folks. You can now go to your My Blogs tab, enable Post by Voice, and get a special number and code to call your blog. After you’re done, the audio file from your phone call will be posted to your blog for all to listen to and enjoy,” he explains.
The idea is simple and it can come in handy in a couple of occasions. Mullenweg details some of the possible uses himself, in an audio excerpt made using Post by Voice, like having a private blog to record your notes, using it during conference calls or even recording a concert and posting it straight to your blog. The copyright ‘police’ may have a thing or two to say about that last part though.
The feature is free to WordPress.com bloggers and you can record up to 60 minutes of audio using it. Right now, the site is just experimenting with the idea, but says that it may limit the length of the recording and introduce a premium upgrade of sorts later. No word of the feature will be made available for independent WordPress blogs.