This is a quick tutorial on how to add audio to a holiday greeting card, or any printed item.

Step 1 is to create a chirbit post, which you are able to do by uploading an existing audio clip to chirbit, or recording a new one via a webcam or microphone on the site. You can also upload or email a voice memo from any smart phone with a voice recorder and email capabilites.

Step 2 is to hover over your chirbit post to click on the “view qrcode for this chirbit” icon.

after you click on the icon, the QRCode window will pop up as illustrated here.

You should now be able to download your qrcode to print it on your card or flyer.

if you prefer you can also just send/print the shortURL to your audio clip in your card or flyer.

Share your actual voice this holiday!

Here are some example holiday chirbit posts.

http://chirb.it/2znf4n

http://chirb.it/dks097

http://chirb.it/F0m8yF

http://chirb.it/Ermb5v

Songatron as you may know is the Awesome Mad Libs Song creating Robot developed by Jonathan Mann and Cramzy. With Songatron you can inject your own word into one of the many available tunes to create a new masterpiece to share with the world.

Browse chirbit to listen to all songatron posts here:

Songtron on Chirbit

You can find Jonathan Mann on Twitter here: @songadaymann

Snapvine is no longer. So where can you go to record audio messages to share on Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz and pretty much anywhere online? Look no further than chirbit!

Here are just some of the features that chirbit offers!

• Record audio straight from your browser using a webcam or microphone.
• Upload existing audio files in wav, mp3, m4a or amr formats!
• Upload to your chirbit account using a smart phone with a built in voice memo recorder.
• Geotag your audio posts to let others know where you recorded them! (optional)
• Categorize your chirbits into fun categories like “Joke”, “Rave”, or “My 2 cents”
• Leave private audio messages to your friends.
• Share your chirbits easily on Twitter, Facebook or Google Buzz with one click!

Feel free to contact me directly if there is any feature that you need or would like to see on chirbit and I will do my best to implement it!
I hope to inspire the users of chirbit to this kind of love, support and dedication!

• CNN iReport – I’m alive: Messages from Haiti – CNN iReport posts video of survivors in Haiti.
• Looking for loved ones in Haiti – Name Database
• Red Cross Locate your relatives in Haiti link
• Connect with your loved ones in Haiti – Missing people list
• Earthquake Haiti facebook page

Part 1 – How to share your Chirbit audio on Twitter

1. Sign up for a Chirbit account. All you need is a username, a valid email address and your password. You can sign up to chirbit here.
2. Post your audio. This can be accomplished in a number of different ways with Chirbit.
   • You can record your message straight from the browser using the Chirbit recorder, and your microphone or webcam.

   

   • You can upload an mp3, wav or m4a file using the upload form.

   

   • You can record your audio using your iphone voice memo app and submit it from your iphone ( This is the perfect way to post your audio on the go )

   

3. Click on the Option button on your Chirbit post.



4. Click the Tweet This Chirbit button. The “Tweet This” button will post your short URL and the Title you gave your Chirbit on your Twitter account. Currently you must be logged in to Twitter and you must click the update button manually for this to function. In the near future you will be able to choose to do this automatically for all of your posts via the settings area.

The short Chirbit URL look like this http://chirb.it/****** (the chirb.it domain followed by 6 alphanumeric characters) and will appear this way to you viewers:

On an iphone your chirbit will look like this:

Part 2 – How others are using Chirbit to share audio on Twitter

Check out how others are using Chirbit with Twitter by searching twitter with the term “chirb.it”

Some examples of Chirbit posts

• Poetry Nystagmus by Lloyd Fletcher
• Short Snippets from a longer Podcast Jeff Thinks He Has the Bird Flu… Riiight
• Your favorite Movie Quote The Snozzberries taste like Snozzberries!
• Audio Tweets Crazy golf
• Share music you’ve made Melancholie
• Sound Bites Charlie ringtone
• Pronunciations How do you pronounce Che?

logos /ˈloʊɡɒs/ or /ˈlɒgɒs/; the word or form which expresses a thought. The written word in action.

In 1999 I had an idea to create a website where people could upload mp3 or real audio versions of public domain books. The idea was for anyone to take text from Project Gutenberg and record it digitally then upload the file for public use. Primarily for people with disability (sight or Dyslexia) or for anyone listening to it on a computer (this was pre iPod as the first iPod was not released until October 23, 2001).

Project Gutenberg as it appeared in May of 2000

This was 5 years before LibriVox. In 1999 bandwidth and encoding where not trivial, and the idea of user generated content was not as wide spread as it is today.
I let the domain go in 2004. ( I am not sure what the current logosproject.org will be. There is place holder text there now.) I stumbled upon the archive.org wayback machine files of logosproject.org while thinking about chirbit and the direction that I see it going. I am excited about chirbit as a hub of user created audio awesomeness, and am even more excited about this and other ideas coming to fruition after long periods of germination (thoughts made into action). My hope is that chirbit is simple, useful and fun to all who use it. – Ivan