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I'm a geek working as a distance learning specialist for a large corporation.

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Multimedia Plugins for WordPress

Video, Music, Podcasts, Audio, and Multimedia WordPress Plugins « Lorelle on WordPress

This is a great annotated list of plug-ins for WordPress users trying to add video or audio of any sort to their blog. I wish she would have put this list out months ago – it would have saved me quite a bit of time and effort.

Now I have to go through all those options and see how I can best use . . . → Read More: Multimedia Plugins for WordPress

Making MP3s playable on a website, the easy way

[update: I've since started using the Anarchy plugin, which also makes standard hyperlinks playable, and though I'm on the fence about which technology I like better for audio (I got Anarchy for the video component), I lean toward the method described below because it's less visually intrusive. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to disable the Anarchy audio player segment without disabling the whole thing, so all the example links below (and throughout this site . . . → Read More: Making MP3s playable on a website, the easy way

Life Transforming Open Source Software

The Simple Dollar » Live Free: Seven Pieces Of Open Source Software That Transformed My Life

Okay, “life transforming” might be a little extreme … but then again I haven’t tried most of them yet.

I have tried GAIM, and I like it. I use Firefox, Thunderbird and (obviously) WordPress on a daily basis (though I haven’t heard of most of the extensions he mentioned).

I loaded Open Office once, but I had a really . . . → Read More: Life Transforming Open Source Software

Adding Technorati Tags to posts

SimpleTags – A WordPress Plugin for Technorati Tags

Found a [tag]plug-in[/tag] for [tag]WordPress[/tag] that makes it dead easy to create [tag]Technorati tags[/tag]. Easy enough that I may actually do it! And those of you who know how lazy I am, will truly appreciate the gravity of that statement.

[tag]SimpleTags[/tag] is a WordPress plugin that will allow you to easily generate Technorati tags at the bottom of your blog entries. There are several plugins already available . . . → Read More: Adding Technorati Tags to posts

Odeo podcasting

Well, I’m working on podcasting technology for work, so I figured I’d better get my feet wet and learn how to do it. As such, here is a lame example of me talking into a microphone for 16 seconds (approximately):

Incidentally, this player is Google’s, as seen in Gmail. Not the prettiest, but it’s the only one I could figure out how to use with WordPress, so far.

As podcasting hosts go, Odeo.com . . . → Read More: Odeo podcasting

Stop everything

There is a lot going on in the world these days. The pace of life is increasing at an amazing rate. The progress we are making is incredible, and there is great stuff happening every day.

But progress at this rate is a double-edged sword. Yes, we have unprecedented access to information, conveniences, and services, but it’s also very easy to be overstimulated and distracted.

This is more evident now than ever before, but . . . → Read More: Stop everything