Pimp My News converts posts from thousands of blog and news sites into audio made available for Web streaming, cell phone streaming, or MP3 player downloads. The Inquisitr’s Tech section, Pop section, and Odd section now all have their own streams within the appropriate categories there.

CEO John Atkinson also tells us he and his team are working on resolving the two issues we mentioned in our original post — site speed and content turnaround time — and are preparing to roll out a slew of new features for the service as well.

On a side note, if you didn’t see our initial review of the service, you can now listen to it as well…it was among the first Inquisitr stories pulled into the site.

Update: The Inquisitr Now Available for Your Listening Pleasure is a post from: The Inquisitr

A scan through the service’s available categories shows you the wide variety of content available. Almost any news/blog genre you can imagine is included somewhere. Within the technology tab, you’ll find everything from Apple news to gadget reviews, Internet blogs, social media discussions, and startup spotlights.

Most categories seem to have a fairly decent mix of material. Right now, for example, the “social media” tab leads off with Mashable’s morning story about the food service rumors within Google. Click onto the “top bloggers” tab and you’ll find audio of some recent Scoble posts at the top of the page.

The two downsides to the system are both time-related. First, turnaround time: Many of the top entries are several hours old and more recent postings have yet to appear. Still, the content that is present is easy to access and generally tolerable enough for listening. A male computer voice acts as the narrator and seems to be pretty accurate as far as pronunciations. Second, loading time: The service is a bit on the pokey side and a little slow to load, at least during the times at which we’ve accessed it.

The Inquisitr, incidentally, is not yet featured on Pimp My News. We’ve officially requested it, though — and the service makes it clear that it’s happy to make additions for anyone missing their favorite sites in the mix…so stay tuned. (Update: The Inquisitr is now featured.)

Pimp My News is free to use and ad-supported. The only real limitation is in building a personalized podcast or playlist: You are limited to 10 sources and a 10 minute daily program. In general use of the site, though — whether through the Web interface or the iPhone-optimized mobile interface — you are unrestricted in your activity.

Pimp My News: Turning Blogs into Mobile Audio is a post from: The Inquisitr