WordPress just announced an interesting—let’s say somewhere between quirky and neat— addition to their hosted blog site. You can now phone in a blog post! With help from Twilio’s unified communications APIs, the WordPress.com software will deposit an audio file attachment to the post. Now roving reporters can literally call in their stories.
There currently isn’t a plug-in for this feature that can be used on self-hosted WordPress blogs. But back in November, someone posted software (also based on Twilio’s APIs) on github that does just this. I’ll take a look and report back after the holiday weekend.
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