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While the rise of phoneblogs (aka AudioBlog?s) has been long in happening, the DigitalDivide? will keep the less wealthy away from their piece of this action. As originally posted to http://pegasi.net/pipermail/p2pj/2001-April/000215.html:

: A friend of mine wanted to set up a P133 he had lying around to stream audio coming in off a phone line attached to a voice modem. A caller would be immediately connected to the system, immediately broadcasting on the internet.

: He would then distribute flyers in the stranger parts of the city in order to get the fringe people to participate.

: He wasn't going to touch the server after that. Just listen to it.

: The main advantage of this over something like live365.com was that even poor people (including the homeless) could broadcast, even if they couldn't listen to it. It was also anonymous at the cost of a quarter for a payphone.

: Not that he was a saint. He made an excellent point that rich people would listen to it as a chance to "slum it" with the full mental condom of the Internet. The karmic joke of this alone would be worth it.

: The main disadvantage would be liability. But he didn't care. He didn't have a lot of assets to lien. Just a ratty ol' P133 and some underwear.

-- SunirShah, "Phone interviews posted to the web," PeerToPeerJournalism mailing list, April 10, 2001.

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