Ah, wonder if the free service gives you the email thingy on wordpress.com?
Can you actually attach the podcast to the email message itself, or do we
still need to ftp that in? The email way seems a a lot easier than the web
forms. Outlook has an insert hyperlink thing, but it seems to be
unavailable.
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Well, what I plan to do from now on is to edit the show notes for my podcast in an external editor; I can either do this in my e-mail client direcly or just insert the whole thing into my e-mail when finished. Anyhow, I can mail my blog postings to a secret e-mail address for my WordPress installation and it will post it for me:). The recent versions of WordPress support e-mailing blog postings natively; you just have to configure it accordingly.
Now if you are satisfied doing posts as I described above, then many text editers have HTML macro facilities so an anchor link can be created by using those features. Both emacs and Note Tab Pro are two such editors that come to mind that support doing this.
When I looked at the resulting RSS feed from my WP installation, it looked clean to me and should probably work well with the popular podcatcher programs out there. For me, feedburner, just took the RSS feed and added some of the other fluff such as itunes tags and I think something for Yahoo.
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 01:59:00PM -0600, Brent Harding wrote:Are there word plugins that one can use so you can just type the url, highlight it, and make a hyperlink around it? An editor of some kind just seems more doable than these web boxes. How does it know what link to use for the enclosure? The last time I played with Wordpress, the rss links were invalid after installing it, and you almost need to do it in a shell account to edit the files.
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To: <blindcasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 1:27 PM
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>Jaws has nothing to do with it. This is all web based and yes,
>WordPress can support podcasting. Basically, you post your blog and
>include a standard anchor element pointing to your MP3 file and
>WordPress will build an enclosure element into your RSS feed. I would
>recommend uploading your MP3 files to wherever you presently host them
>and then post the blog as I mentioned above. That's what I do though I
>have WP installed on my hosting service. I haven't been to
>wordpress.com so dunno if they support hosting of audio content also or
>not. From what I've seen so far with WordPress, it is very accessible
>to most/all web browsers and I'm sure all screen readers can handle it
>with no problems. I don't think it even has any javascript in it either
>which is often a big help:).
>
>On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 01:31:24PM -0500, Jerry Mader wrote:
>>Can this software do podcasts though or?
>>I'm wondering about that.
>>and how easy is it to use with jaws?
>>
>>Jerry Mader
>>Owner of the blind forem and the Jerry Mader Cast.
>>point your pod catcher to this address
>>feeds.feedburner.com/TheBlindForem
>>Or
>>feeds.feedburner.com/TheJerryMaderCast
>>Don't have a pod catcher you can download one at
>>http://juicereceiver.sorceforge.net
>>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Jeff Bishop" <jeff.bishop@xxxxxxxxx>
>>To: <blindcasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 4:26 PM
>>Subject: An alternative and very accessible blogging alternative ...
>>
>>
>>>Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>>Wordpress at:
>>>
>>>http://www.wordpress.com
>>>
>>>Is now offering a blogging service similar to LiveJournal, Blogger,
>>>Spaces.msn.com, etc, etc. It is very very accessible with no visual
>>>verification issues whatsoever.
>>>
>>>Jeff
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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