Because I’ve been so busy lately,  I’ve been looking for ways to be more efficient.  One of my problems (the list is huge!) is that I don’t update this blog often enough.  So I had this great idea while I was driving home from the day job.  What if I created a service that allowed regular folk like me to dial up a number from their cell-phones, speak their blog entry, and it would be transcribed and waiting for them to approve on their blog.  I was super pumped about this idea, so as soon as I got home I went and did my research.

Of course I was immediately disappointed to find out that there are actually already a couple of companies doing most of this already for you.  They were really more geared at transcribing and emailing the message for you, but with a little tweaking, wordpress can easily be set up to accept emails for blog entries.  So it’s all there.  Ahh man, it turns out that I wasn’t the first person to think of this after all…

After I got over myself, I realized that this could indeed be useful for my busy life.  I set up several different accounts with different compaines, but the one I liked the best was called Jott.com.  I actually found it by reading someone else’s blog entry, and since I like to give credit where credit is due, here is that blog:
http://www.idea-xchange.com/post/66

Anyway, I’ve been using the Jott.com service for a little while now, and although there are some things I don’t love about it (like the way it breaks up my messages too prematurely, especially when I am driving and I stop talking to keep from crashing my car), I have to say that overall, I really like this service.  It works well for me.

But as an entrepreneur, I have to wonder: where is the money in it?  My transcribed emails automatically end up in my inbox, so I don’t really need to go to their web site (to view advertisements etc.), and I really don’t think the service is valuable enough to pay for.  Honestly, if it gets *that* popular, then Google will just add the feature to GMail, right?

Well, I recommend this service to help out overly busy people everywhere. It’s free and it’s at Jott.com … enjoy!