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.
Hi David,
If you're using the development version of Habari, or if you want to wait until version 0.6 is released, there is a podcast plugin that you can use available in the plugin repository. It adds a new content type, podcast, to Habari. Working with the Habari media silo, it assists in creating a podcast entry in your blog that will work with either a feed, or, when directly reading the post in your blog, inserts a player into the post. It also adds all the information into the feed that is required to use it with iTunes. It may make the task of creating a podcast easier for you and your students.
Welcome to Habari. Enjoy the ride.
Rick Cockrum - http://sagrising.cockrumpublishing.com/ - wrote a Habari plugin for podcasts and actively uses it.
I'm sure he would be only too willing to help out, if necessary
Thanks for the comments, Rick and Andy. I apologise for my late approval of these. I've been away for a week (it being summer holiday time here in Australia).
I'll definitely try the podcast plug-in. I have only recently figured out how the Media Silo works, as there are, as far as I can tell, absolutely no instructions for it, either in the dashboard or Habari documentation.
This work will be extremely experimental. If the podcasts prove popular with students whose classes have been recorded, we might have to look at off-loading the media to Amazon S3 or a similar service. So I might have to look at creating a silo plugin for that!
I have been playing with more granular permissions. The 'groups' and 'users' classes, along with the ACL class, suggest that it's possible. But as yet, it's not implemented. But that's a story for another entry.
... a newer version.)Perhaps some of this will be rolled out in version 0.6. It sounds as if there's a bit happening for that release. But I need something working in two weeks' time. 0 Responses to Restricting users...