Mostly due to Alicia's encouragement, I've decided to go ahead with my audio blogging meme. Just to review, here are the rules:
Go to Audblog and set up a free trial account. This will allow you to make one free four-minute audio post to your blog. Select an interesting entry from another blog. It can't be something that was written by you or which is quoted in your blog. There is no limit on the age of the entry, but it must be from a blog that is still online and active. The entry you select must be short enough for you to be able to read it out loud in its entirety in the allotted four minutes. Make an audio post of yourself reading the selected entry. Do not make any additional comments. The only words you speak are those written in the entry. (Funny voices and sound effects are still allowed.) Do not reveal the source blog. If there is identifying information in the entry (like the name of the blog or blogger), omit or disguise it. Also, do not publish the text of the entry. Wait at least 24 hours, and then identify the source blog and provide a link to the entry.
I later discovered that the trial version only gives you one minute, so I bought a subscription in order to be able to read a fairly lengthy entry. But you don't have to.
Using a cell phone was probably not the best idea. There are at least two incidents of the sound cutting out and erasing a few words, but the rest of it is still intelligible. I wish there was some way to filter out the nasal quality of my voice, though.
As per the rules, in tomorrow's entry I will reveal the origin of the source material and provide a link to it. In the meantime, would anyone care to venture a guess as to what blogger wrote this?
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