Bluegrind.com now has blogs
I’ve been working on bluegrind.com for a while now and over the weekend we were able to roll out the blog section.
Bluegrind.com is a web site that automatically converts news and blogs to audio/mp3. We started the site because we wanted to create a site that would allow visually impaired internet users to get the latest news read to them. While we were building the engine though we found out many other uses for it as well. I started queuing up news stories that interest me so I could listen to them while driving in LA traffic or put them on my ipod to listen to the news while at the gym. We’re still building the site with our original goals in mind and have even made a mirror site that can be navigated through audio and keyboard presses (no visual pages).
Back to the blogs section. With our latest changes, we offer registered users the ability to add their blog to be processed by the bluegrind engine. Once you have a blog registered, you can go to the control panel and see instructions on how to add our audio player under each post on your own blog. You can see that I have already installed the code to my wordpress template and th player appears at the end of this post.
Please visit the site and leave us comments on what else we can do to make it better for the community. Also keep in mind that we are in beta and the site is not complete yet but we thought we have enough ready to get it to users who need it and also get some early feedback.