In some of my pre­sen­ta­tions this year, I’ve been talk­ing about how the blog has become its own type of plat­form that you can embed almost any­thing in — audio (pod­casts), video, screencasts/slideshows, pic­tures, maps, forms, chat, text mes­sages, and more. A library could offer a dynamic, multimedia-based web­site pri­mar­ily through a blog these days, all of which would flow out as an RSS feed.

This is another grow­ing expec­ta­tion I have as a blog­ger, that I can take any piece of con­tent that lives some­where else and embed it into my blog using just a snip­pet of code pro­vided by the site itself. Today I wished that NPR offered snip­pets so I could eas­ily embed their audio seg­ments here, thereby putting it in my lifestream and mak­ing it imme­di­ately acces­si­ble to oth­ers instead of keep­ing it hostage on their site.