A couple years ago, I toyed around with including audio and video files into this blog as pod/vodcasts.
My experience was that the level of control that I was able to achieve really wasn’t worth all the blood, sweat and repetitive-stress injury to my mousing hand to achieve; and that I was better off posting my video clips to Vimeo or YouTube.
I’ve since returned to the scene of my experiments, to find that the PodPress plugin that I sweated over back in ’08 has really grown up. There are all sortsa features & fields there to play with now, and it doesn’t take degrees in sound engineering, Apache Server Maintenance, PHP coding and SEO optimization to get a stinking mp3 file into my blog. Which is pretty much just in time for me to show off to a whole new round of traditional journalists, eager to break free & start putting pretty pictures and killer sounds up onto the web.
The file types that PodPress handles have grown in complexity - and usefulness. There's even the capability to use the non-traditional open-source Ogg formats within HTML5. This bears serious consideration.
So to kick off this little journey into multimedia, I’m uploading a song — the first song I’ve ever actually created all (well, pretty much – I’ll explain in a bit) on my own:
Downloadable version: Heads Up-No Beer
My friend Steve and his buddies were supposed to meet me & go to a Dodger game on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately, they were rather over-served the previous night, and this is the (unintentionally) hilarious voicemail message they left me to tell me they really weren’t up to drinking any more beer that day.
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