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.