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The other day I mentioned Speakwire (converts your blog to audio and reads it to you)…by the way, somewhere down the bottom of the sidebar I have a button to listen to this blog via Speakwire.

Now another tool has come my way via rss4lib, called Talkr.

From their website:

“Talkr provides a service that allows you to listen to your favorite text-only news sources rather than read them. If you can point us to an RSS feed (a machine-readable version of your favorite blog or news source) we will convert that feed from text to speech.

Talkr can also provide you with a podcast of your favorite news sources.”

Seems like a similar service to Speakwire, with the added feature that it generates a podcast feed of your favourite blog so you can track updates in you RSS reader instead of going to Talkr.

It’s a podcast with a difference as you don’t record an audio of yourself, it’s a computer generated version of the text in your blog post (spoken by a robot!)

It also has more robust RSS reader features such as, show all posts, or keep (save a post).

I’ve added a Talkr podcast button to the subscription section in this blog…so now you can download the audio version of this blog via your podcast reader.

Check out the Talkr blog for more.

Sifry’s Alerts: New Technorati Public Beta - Go bang on it! announces the new beta release of Technorati.

New features are the watchlist can now be read in Technorati itself, if you don’t already use an RSS reader.

Finally Technorati tags has an RSS feed for each tag…been waiting for this one!

At the moment you can subscribe to your favourite tag via del.icio.us, Furl, etc…instead of subscribing to 2 feeds of the same tag, you can blend them in an RSS-Mixer to make one feed.

Now Technorati has done this for you, allowing you to subscribe to a tag feed that includes content from del.icio.us, furl, flickr, buzznet, and also the blogosphere (blog categories).

So with one tag feed you are getting content from 2 bookmark services, 2 photo services, and the blogosphere (categories) according to Technorati.

The only other way to subscribe to RSS feeds of blog categories is via Blogdigger.

Now what about being able to add multiple tags, like you can in del.icio.us.

Where is the search tips page, I want to do boolean searching on the standard search screen.

…what a great facelift!

[ADDED 13/06/05: see updated post to clarify an oversight I made in this post]

Library Stuff points to a new web-based RSS reader, with tagging capabilities.

See Feedlounge.