Spanspek

I've been looking for a podacsting platform for work. The plan is to have my students record and edit lectures and tutorials, convert them to mp3s and publish them. I quite like Habari. If I were writing blogging software from scratch, I'd do things differently, but when I look through the code I can see why they've done the things they've done. It's so much better than the God-awful mess that is Wordpress. After reading this post, I've installed the plug-in and got myself a Feedburner account. I want to investigate using Feedburner to generate a podcast-aware feed. One problem I've encountered is that if you use a media player (e.g. Flash) in the markup of a page, Feedburner detects the player but not the file it's playing. So I think I'll have to go the way of Paul Boag, and place a direct link to the MP3 file in the markup for the blog entry. Another link might open a window, or take the user to another page which is not tracked by either Habari's Atom feed or Feedburner. Habari has different content types. By default, there are "pages" and "entries". Pages are meant to be like static HTML pages, as far as I can tell. So these would be a good candidate for presenting the media player to any users who might like to use it.