Digital Passion

Monday, 24 December 2007

Talkr- Let your blog posts talk for themselves

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Talkr provides a service to convert your text-only RSS or Atom feed into a spoken word podcast. This online service is free for converting your RSS feeds into MP3 files for podcasting.

This Talkr service is very useful to increase accessibility of your blog. Readers can download your post in to mp3 format and listen to them anywhere like traveling etc.

As a reader, Talkr can also provide you with a podcast of your favorite news sources. This means that you can plug your MP3 player into your home computer once a day and Talkr will provide you with hours of audio content with no additional work on your part.

Let me give you a example, Click the Listen to this article link to download this article in mp3 format and listen to it.

As a Blogger, you will get these benefits

Talkr will automatically check your feed to see if you have published new articles
Talkr uses best-of-class text to speech software to convert your blog to a podcast
Talkr offers revenue share opportunities if you want to include advertising in your podcast or you refer new clients to Talkr
Your readers can listen to each article right from your blog -- the audio links are auto-generated each time you post a new article in your blog!
Talkr provides a new RSS feed and "chicklet" to help your readers to add your podcast to their favorite podcast client
Talkr creates an iTunes-compatible podcast feed, so that you can specify a description, category and keywords that will appear within iTunes.
No work on your part past the initial configuration
Talkr is Free!

To make your blog post Talk with Talkr, you just have to go to their website, register a account as a "Partner", submit your blogs RSS feed. Then you will receive a HTML code you just have to replace the " Template variable for permalink" with your permalink as shown below

You will receive the following code

<img style="border:none;" src='http://images.talkr.com/images/speaker_20.gif' alt='Listen to this article' border='0' />
<a href='http://www.talkr.com/app/fetch.app?feed_id=42116&perma_link=[template variable for permalink]'> Listen to this article </a>

Replace the text (including the square brackets) which is shown in the RED color with your permalink.

Like this service? Want to give it a try? visit there website Talkr.

Below are some other services provided by Talkr

Saturday, 22 December 2007

20 photographs, perfectly timed and angled

- 20 Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Angle

“Some photographs become brilliant or hilarious because both the timing and the angle work out just right. Sometimes this means catching people or objects lined up perfectly at the ideal moment. Other times these are staged for maximum effect.”

[ via QOT ]

Tuesday, 18 December 2007

Analyze your feedburner feed with Graphs and Charts

What is Feed Analysis?
The number of subscribers is very useful for bloggers to determine the popularity of their blogs. Yet, blogger like me may hope that the FeedBurner stats can tell us how fruitful our effort results without much analytical calculation on our own. As such, I developed Feed Analysis which can provide bloggers, with the aid of beautiful interactive charts, a more detailed report and analysis from our feeds.

A cool tool to Analyze your blogs feedburner feed, created by Blogperfume.

With the help of Feed Analysis, you can see the number of subscribers for each month that is represented neatly on the column chart. You can also view the number of subscribers, hits, views and clicks for every single day from the line chart. And the best/worst day of the week is also available which is displayed on the pie chart.

To analyze feedburner feed you just need to type it in the box (which is on the bottom side) select the range of month and click on "Generate Report".

The report will appear like this

1) The column chart represents the number of Subscribers per month.

The orange part of the column shows the total subscriber of that month and the yellow part shows the subscribers that have been added to the month.

2) This is a graph of Number of Subscribers, Hits, Views and Daily Clicks

3) The following chart shows the total number of subscribers on each day of the week with its percentage.

The previous version of Feed Analysis was little bit complicated, to analyze a blog feed the blogger need to

-Log in to the feedburner account

-Then select the feed to analyze

-Download the CSV file then upload it to Blog Perfume.

These all work is covered in the latest version i.e. v1.1

I think this is a cool tool to analyze a feed for Blogger. What do you think about this?

Analyze your feedburner feed here: Feed Analysis v1.1

If you have any suggestions to this tool send them through comments.