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8/2/2006

movable type and goLive

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 12:20 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

a client asks asked

1) Is it possible to link Adobe GoLive directly into the moveable type blogging system? There evidently is an API in golive, but I haven’t been able to find the correct URL to link to the pages within the blog.  It would make sense, for a security standpoint, to require people to [...]

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7/7/2006

BlogHack

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 11:49 am
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

Defined problem of using MEOW with our MovableType installation

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5/3/2006

Instructions for uploading a debate video

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:59 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

It goes something like this:
Before you get started, we highly recommend using the free FireFox browser for PC or Macintosh. Many "Write a Post" and "Upload a File" features do not work with other brands.
First, If this is your first time, scroll down the Let’s Debate home page (http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/letsdebate/ ) and look for "Register" under [...]

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4/20/2006

debateoneworld

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:03 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

Wordpress operational research: Pages, Categories, Sticky headings for Let’s Debate.

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4/7/2006

RSS feed questions

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:21 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

Answered some questions about RSS feeds for justing and Steve.:
Already available, but apparently not advertised or well used. See

http://www.uvm.edu/news/latest-uvm-news.rss/academics
http://www.uvm.edu/news/latest-uvm-news.rss/cit
http://www.uvm.edu/news/latest-uvm-news.rss/campus_life

an interesting one is
    http://www.uvm.edu/news/latest-uvm-news.rss/research
I’ve dealt with this kind of thing with MRG: somebody cut and pasted curly quotes from Word. Some readers deal with this, others (like iTunes) don’t, which can screw stuff up (podcasting).
Anyway, given [...]

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2/27/2006

debateoneworld rolls on

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:21 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

Spent a bunch of time touring Mambo and figuring out what it does and what it doesn’t.
Installed Wordpress 2 in debate web space. Fixed a bit of "broken" code that affects file uploads in PHP "Safe" mode (added a touch command in admin-functions.php line 752. Waiting for feedback from Tuna..

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11/22/2005

Podcast a secure file?

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 12:38 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

It works. tricky part is making it work with our blogging tools.
Try this: go to iTunes, Advanced, subscribe to podcast. Give this URL
    http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/index.xml
That is a static XML file, created with a text editor. It contains an enclosure:
    <enclosure url="https://www.uvm.edu/~waw/uvm_only/reslife.mov" length="68313540" type="video/quicktime" />
iTunes recognizes the URL, and presents a username/password box. Pretty slick.
Trouble is, the [...]

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11/10/2005

Preparing for Tea talk

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:37 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

Today’s Colleage tea is podcasting. Reviewed and updated my Ski Blog RSS feed template, put it on the web for easy access by others, checked my iTunes Podcasts to see if they were active and discoverable, saw how they looked using iTunes for Windows. Then went to tea tal

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11/4/2005

Went to CTL Tea

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:24 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

As I type stuff in here
fancy  html editing

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10/26/2005

Blog won’t blog

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 12:59 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

Investigated issue where new post to waw.blog.uvm.edu would not appear, an rebuillding indices  failed with perl error. Justin traced it down to enclosure URLs that were missing opr forbidden. Whoops.

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10/5/2005

Podcasting for Timothy Fox

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:50 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

Answered numerous questions about his podcast, Movable Type templates, iTunes.

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9/30/2005

Podcasting for T Fox

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 12:57 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

Met with Timothy Fox to discuss his Movable Type blog, an enhanced Podcast file, and publixhing podcats to iTunes.

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9/6/2005

Almost a PowerPoint: Podcast Slide Show

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:49 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects=> Video and Audio)

I thought it might be cute to repurpose a PowerPoint slide show as a Podcast with Pictures. This example is a bit of a counterfeit: it began life as a MS-Word document. I read the text (recorded my voice using QuickTime Player Pro), extracted the pictures (saved Word Document as HTML and pulled JPEGs from [...]

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9/2/2005

Podcasting with MT and Wordpress

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:51 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

Some of you have figured this out already. I just did today. There were a few gotchas, so I thought I’d pass them along.
Podcasting is nothing more than

putting an audio file on a web server
announcing the URL of that file in a blog post
providing an RSS2 feed that [...]

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A first Podcast

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:45 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

For demonstration purposes only, Anne and William play drums and piano.
This is a MPEG-4 AAC file.

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