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Of talking shoes and swinging chins
Dec. 1st, 2006 03:24 amFound out about the most interesting new site today.
I had just posted about my upcoming ebook Talkshoe show (Saturday Dec. 2, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time) on the TeleRead blog, when someone posted a comment in reply about a new type of forum he was starting up called Chinswing. Although it's still in beta, I think it looks rather promising. If Talkshoe is like a voice-based chatroom, Chinswing is a voice-based web bulletin board. Instead of typing forum messages, people record voicemail posts in response to each other. Another rather clever idea, I think, if perhaps not quite so clever as Talkshoe.
I posted a couple of messages there, experimentally. The interface seemed to be simple enough, and the recordings uploaded quickly (but then, I'm on broadband, not dialup). It will be interesting to see if anything comes of it.
I had just posted about my upcoming ebook Talkshoe show (Saturday Dec. 2, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time) on the TeleRead blog, when someone posted a comment in reply about a new type of forum he was starting up called Chinswing. Although it's still in beta, I think it looks rather promising. If Talkshoe is like a voice-based chatroom, Chinswing is a voice-based web bulletin board. Instead of typing forum messages, people record voicemail posts in response to each other. Another rather clever idea, I think, if perhaps not quite so clever as Talkshoe.
I posted a couple of messages there, experimentally. The interface seemed to be simple enough, and the recordings uploaded quickly (but then, I'm on broadband, not dialup). It will be interesting to see if anything comes of it.
