Recently some blogging sites have incorporated audio clips and recordings into their blogs, making widgets and web tools available to their bloggers that enable them to embed sound into otherwise internet write ups.
Sure, this development can pave the way to complete audio blogs that are not read but instead listened to.
That can be of immense help to anyone who can't properly read or has sight impairments.
It can also serve as a personalizing touch to bloggers who insist on making their blogs cyber extensions of themselves and their lives.
But is this the future of blogging? Currently blogging is making a name for itself being a part of the whole internet affiliate marketing industry.
Paid blogs are commonplace now whereas not a decade ago people were asking what web logs are.
Making money online through blogging seems to be the trend today, and is probably the current phase in the evolution of what we know as the blog.
So what role does audio on blogs play in the role of blogs as income generating mechanisms? Well, sound and audio can definitely be developed as a marketing tool.
Bloggers can add introductions, comments, and other recordings to their blog entries to further market it.
But how well would that go? Ultimately, how audio would affect the future of blogs depend on how much it can be incorporated or used in the current scheme of things-that is to say, how it can be taken advantage of to boost paid blogging.