In some of my presentations this year, I’ve been talking about how the blog has become its own type of platform that you can embed almost anything in - audio (podcasts), video, screencasts/slideshows, pictures, maps, forms, chat, text messages, and more. A library could offer a dynamic, multimedia-based website primarily through a blog these days, all of which would flow out as an RSS feed.
This is another growing expectation I have as a blogger, that I can take any piece of content that lives somewhere else and embed it into my blog using just a snippet of code provided by the site itself. Today I wished that NPR offered snippets so I could easily embed their audio segments here, thereby putting it in my lifestream and making it immediately accessible to others instead of keeping it hostage on their site.
blogs, embedded, expectations