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	<title>CenterNetworks &#187; BlogBard</title>
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		<title>BlogBard Allow You to Listen to Your Favorite Text Content</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Stern</dc:creator>
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<a href="http://www.blogbard.com"><img border="0" align="left" width="200" src="http://www.centernetworks.com/images/1/blogbardleft.png" alt="BlogBard" height="70" /></a>Earlier this year <a href="http://www.centernetworks.com/pimpmynews-audio-rss-feedreader">we reviewed</a> <a href="http://www.pimpmynews.com/">PimpMyNews</a> which allows you to create an audio feed of your favorite feeds. Another new startup has entered the text-to-audio feed space, <a href="http://www.blogbard.com">BlogBard</a>. 
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BlogBard lets you pull in your feeds from Google Reader and Bloglines and then listen to them live. You can also select to create a downloadable iTunes version. <a href="http://www.centernetworks.com/blogbard-audio-feed"><strong>read more &#187;</strong></a>
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<a href="http://www.blogbard.com"><img border="0" align="left" width="200" src="http://www.centernetworks.com/images/1/blogbardleft.png" alt="BlogBard" height="70" /></a>Earlier this year <a href="http://www.centernetworks.com/pimpmynews-audio-rss-feedreader">we reviewed</a> <a href="http://www.pimpmynews.com/">PimpMyNews</a> which allows you to create an audio feed of your favorite feeds. Another new startup has entered the text-to-audio feed space, <a href="http://www.blogbard.com">BlogBard</a>.
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BlogBard lets you pull in your feeds from Google Reader and Bloglines and then listen to them live. You can also select to create a downloadable iTunes version.
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I am a fan of these audio services as they allow you to multi-task. With the computerized voice basically getting everything right in my tests, these tools could help bring something new to the feed game.
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Both PimpMyNews and BlogBard could be huge hits if they could figure out a way to record the author&#8217;s voice and use that instead of the computerized voice. While the computerized voice is much better than it has ever been, using the author&#8217;s voice would simply rock.
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<strong>The only question I have is: If these services are monetizing my content, shouldn&#8217;t I receive a cut? </strong>
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<p><strong>Update:</strong> BlogBard provided the following regarding their business model, &#8220;Our service(both the widget and the destination site) are  ad-free(we are not monetizing it).  We will be offering rev. share to the content creater once we figure out a way to monetize our service.&#8221;</p>
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Here is the live BlogBard widget:
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