DavidMeade.com hit the big time tonight with the audio and video blogs now listed in Apple’s iTunes directory!

If you have iTunes you can find the DavidMeade.com podcast in the iTunes podcast directory by searching for “Meade” - or you can just follow any of the links provided here at DavidMeade.com. Direct links to the iTunes directory will require you to have iTunes installed. iTunes links will include the purple podcast icon similar to the one below:

So thats great news everybody! If you have an iPod its now even easier to take the DavidMeade.com audio and video blogs with you on the go!

If you dont have iTunes, not to worry … all of the DavidMeade.com RSS 2.0 Feeds are still available for use in your favorite RSS aggregator!

Avaliable Formats: [mov]

My new video iPod came today!

Vloggers Mentioned: LimeBlog, Lo-Fi Saint Louis

(My appologies for not including the links in the text initially.)

(NOTE: I HAVE to try and get QuickTime working so that my vlog can be iPod-able, but I’m having a REALLY rough time creating QuickTime movies. This vlog is my most recent (painful) attempt … please let me know how your experience with this QuickTime vlog is … if it was even nearly as painful as my experience in making it was I need to know that!)

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So, I’m setting up a website and it uses WordPress. One cool featutre of wordpress 1.5 is that it will automatically add enclosure tags for media files you link to in your posts. (this lets bloggers easily become podcasters and video bloggers)

However, the feature doesn’t work if you use a hosting service for your media files whose published permalink to the media file issues a redirect behind the scenes to the actual file at a different uri. Most services do this I think. Blip.tv, OurMedia, The Archive, etc. (Just for clarity sake: This is not a problem with the hosting, but rather a limitation in wordpress.)

Anyway, I wrote up a quick modifcation to the wordpress code to allow for this. If you use word press and would like to use it’s auto-enclosure feature but it’s not working because you are using a hosting provider for your media files, here’s how you can fix it (in most cases).

Edit the wp-includes/functions.php file

FIND:

Code:

for ( $i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) { $key = strtolower($matches[1][$i]); $headers["$key"] = $matches[2][$i]; }

(the above should be around line line 818)

AFTER the above code, ADD:

Code:

$headers[’status_code’] = substr($response,0,strpos( $response, "\r\n", 0));

FIND:

Code:

if ( $headers = wp_get_http_headers( $url) ) {

(the above should be around line 783)

AFTER the above code, ADD:

Code:

if ($headers[’status_code’] == ‘HTTP/1.1 302 Found’ ) { $headers = wp_get_http_headers($headers[’location’]); }

SAVE

There you have it. WordPress will now correctly add enclosures for the media files you link to in your blogs.

NOTE: use at your own risk, but it’s working for me.

Avaliable Formats: [wmv] [mov]

A walk down waikiki in Honolulu brings me to a Hawaiian special: Hawaiian Shave Ice.

Other Videos from Hawaii:
• Memorial Day: Pearl Harbor

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Ted, my older brother, had his brithday yesterday. I was on airplanes most of the day so I couldn’t blog then, but happy birthday at any rate to Ted Meade.

Ted has a website, but he doesn’t blog. Someday I’m going to get Ted to start blogging (perhaps even vlogging) so that he can take his rightful place among The Triad … at which point you’ll be able to leave happy birthday wishes on his website for him … until then I guess you’ll have to reach him through his “people”.

Happy Birthday Ted.