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DruaplCampWI.

Wow.

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Remember to use the "DrupalCampWI" Tag!

My Podcasting presentation was at 4 p.m. I was in multi-tasking hell, so I forgot to record some of it, but enjoy.

The always entertaining Mike Rohde sent out the links for the DrupalCampWI t-shirts. I'm in the middle of a luke-warm boycott of Cafepress, but don't let my insanity keep you from enjoying a delightful DrupalCampWI t-shirt. You know you want one.

If you're the kind of person who likes to wait until the last minute to sign up for cutting-edge things, you might consider signing up for and attending this weekend's DrupalCampWI. It's not to late for you to not only be a participant, but a contributing participant at that. 

My hope is to lead a session on Podcasting with Drupal, and I've tentatively titled it, "Drupal makes Podcasting Easier, Harder," because that's what it does.

• Drupal's love of feeds and enclosures makes it easier.
• Drupal's lack of iTunes-focused modules (compared to Wordpress) makes it harder
• Your mom uses Drupal for podcasting.
• It's hot.

Anyway, I'm gong to try to stream some of the sessions via marketing's laptop, so watch the Web414 Ustream feed for Eye-Toy coverage, but like any *Camp, it's participation that counts.

Anyway, Drupal Camp is free. Come one come call, come for some stay for more. See you there.

Today's been tough. I've been trying to get a podcasting system set up here at Writelarge.com, because I'd like to dust off my podcast and start reading my stories again.
To that end, I posted a copy of "Origins of Shame" over in the "Golden Era Classics" book.

I made a great post for one of Jeni's new podcast episodes, called "Jeni talks about stuff." If you're subscribed in an RSS-catcher, you're already soaking in it.

Drupal kind of rocks for Podcasting. The software to upload and include a local or remote file in your RSS feed is pretty much handled all in the background, which is very nice if you're writing to a feed.

But I'd _also_ like my site to show a flash player on the main page with each post, too.The audio module does that quite well (if your file is encoded at the right sample rate). But an Audio post isn't as robust as a Blog post. It doesn't cross post to LiveJournal, for example. And the Audio post doesn't have nearly as nice of taxonomy control as a blog post. Maybe It's a configuration thing, but I can't seem to figure out how to embed the flash player in a blog post. I understand that I can attach a file here, and it'll link to it at the bottom of the post, but I really want more control. And if I want tweak the color of the player, I have to manually edit the php! I don't mind that, but it's not very user friendly. The podcasting plugins in WordPress were better.

If I can figure this out, and also recall how I did it after the fact, I've got my DrupalCampMilwaukeesession planned.
Any suggestions drupalers?