The Guardian examines the impact of a new deal inked between blogging company Six Apart and U.K.-based Spinvox, a provider of speech-to-text conversion technology. The two have teamed up to offer Spinvox’s newest offer, blog speech-to-text technology, to Six Apart’s some 12 million bloggers who use its LiveJournal service. The service goes live this week across LiveJournal’s portals in the U.K., France, Spain and Germany. Vendor pitches aside, the tie-up between blogs and a technology that converts speech-to-text – thus removing the need to taps out posts on small keypads - could make it easier for users to contribute to their online journals on the fly and inspire more citizen journalists to go mobile, the article concludes.