Tag Archives: Media

WordPress 2.9 Media Embedding

By Dougal | Published: October 20, 2009

As promised in my previous post on WordPress 2.9 features, this post will be a demonstration of the super easy media embeds coming in WordPress 2.9. What I find particularly interesting and useful about the new embedding feature, and oEmbed in particular, is that it is truly multimedia. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged content, embeds, features, Flickr, images, multimedia, oembed, shortcode, videos, WordPress | 35 Comments

WordPress 2.9 Features

By Dougal | Published: October 16, 2009

This site is now running on WordPress 2.9-rare (which is our “pre-alpha” designation, for those of you who don’t know). WP 2.9 is in “feature freeze”, which means no new features will be considered for this version, and the developers will concentrate on finishing up the existing new features and any outstanding bugs. So far, it appears that all of my plugins are working just fine.

The main new features I’ve actually seen so far are the addition of the “Post Thumbnail” box in the writing screen, the new “trash” status for posts, pages, and comments, and the image editor in the Media Library. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged alpha, Beta, cms, content management, content types, Development, embeds, features, Flickr, hulu, images, Metadata, oembed, Plugins, qik, testing, Themes, thumbnails, viddler, vimeo, viper, viper007bond, Widgets, WordPress, youtube | 82 Comments

Commercial Jingles

By Dougal | Published: June 20, 2007

My wife was a Communications major in college. So she often makes observations about how organizations try to get their message out to their audience. One thing she remarked on recently was the decline in the use of musical jingles, as opposed to non-musical slogans, in advertising. Read more in her post, “Ask any mermaid you happen to see…”

Posted in Family, Fun, Personal | Also tagged Advertising, Suze | 2 Comments

Microformat for media descriptions

By Dougal | Published: July 26, 2005

I’m interested in coming up with a good metadata system for describing various sorts of media. Obviously, this ties in to my recent work on my “now playing” feature, and also into my interest in microformats. And I plan to expand this with links to books, DVDs, and perhaps other media or products. I asked about it on the microformats-discuss mailing list, and they pointed me to a page on the wiki about media-metadata.

This seems to be primarily aimed at electronic media, but I’m hoping that the primary authors might be willing to expand the scope a bit. [...]

Posted in Microformats, Semantics, Standards, Tech | Tagged Media | 2 Comments

Now playing…

By Dougal | Published: July 7, 2005

About a year ago, I started to work on some code to include a “now playing” feature here. It would track music I was listening to in my media player (Winamp, at the time), and put the info in the sidebar of this site. I looked at various canned code solutions, but I usually like doing these things myself. But it wasn’t a high priority, so I just tinkered with it here and there, and never really finished it up.

Since then, I’ve changed jobs, moved into a new house, switched from Winamp to iTunes, and I generally have had less free time available. [...]