I just might need to fire up a WPMU install and see what all the commotion is about.

Are you already drunk at Drupalcon? Did you follow your own margerita recipe I heard you give Friday night? It was very strong, which may explain the craziness above! Hmmm, I wonder if they are gonna have a twittervision up or something liek this so I can show it off to all the folks there

I would be more than interested in exploring that YouTube arhiving in 20s or 30s option. I was wondering if there might be a way to scrape one;s site fro YouTube URLs and then run them through that tool on TechCrunch, that would make it simple, but I am just imagining here. If you want to talk about a test soon when your done in Boston, let me know.

As for the eloquence, Brian nailed it when he quoted your part of the session which was dynamite and on the mark: Why aren’t schools using this? That is the point, and you and D’Arcy nailed it beautifully. It was an honor to present with you cats, and given Brian sent the audio and no one has posted the session just yet, I may give it a loisten again this week and reflect on it more, because it was the best session i have to be a part of because everyone did their own thing but we gelled like a smooth set of edtech improvisers. It was a blast, Bill, and I am certain it is only the very beginning of a long, fruitful series of collaborations. Long live EDUGLU!

Finally, how did I know that Drupal has already been there and done that. If the future works out as I expect it might, I may have a chance to run the two (WPMu and eduglu drupal) in tandem, which will make for me having to start moving away from the tool discussion I cget so much base joy from :0 Enjoy Boston, and I’ll be looking for your updates on Drupalcon.

RE the niceness — I think we’ve opened a new chapter I tell you, I’ve been thinking about your eloquence (and yes, that is the *exact* word I’m looking for) during the session we did at NV — when you were describing the teaching and learning going on in the WPMU install, it was pretty amazing stuff — the passion, the clarity, and the great examples. I love you too, my friend — I just might need to fire up a WPMU install and see what all the commotion is about.

RE bulk harvesting of videos: I’m curious what could be done with installing the FF browser plugin, and then feeding it a bunch of Goo-Tube urls. I bet we could make something work, at least in batches of 10-20. That might be easier than working directly through an external service, particularly without access to an API.

RE: programming — I actually don’t write code — I am, however, incredibly fortunate to work with two amazingly talented developers, Marc Poris and Jeff Graham — they write the code that makes it possible for me to talk.

RE: your own chops — Good Reverend, you do yourself a disservice. You have some mad skills, and your ability to tie the technical innovations into the service of teaching and learning is uncanny. This also gets back to the eloquence piece — you describe the connections incredibly well.

RE: Drupal and domain mapping — Drupal has supported a multisite feature for the last several years, since at least 4.5, IIRC. It works best on linux-based systems, and once you have the DNS info and the Apache settings worked out, you can set up multiple sites off one codebase pretty easily. The thing that’s nice about it is that you can have a core set of modules and themes used in all sites, and then add particular themes and modules on a site by site basis. It’s all handled via the magic of the “sites” directory, and a symbolic link.

Cheers,

Bill

I am currently using the Video Download Helper (a FF extension): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006

I wonder if there isn’t a script one could run to process all the YouTube video on your site though this tool on TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/

Wow, I agree with Chris Lott entirely, it’s nice to know a guy who can both think through edtech and program like a champ. I’m always out of my league here.

On another note, does it strike you as odd how nice we are being to one another? It almost seems like the world is out of kilter. So in the spirit of returning to the natural order of things: how’s the dynamic subdomains and domain mapping going with Drupal 6?
You know I love you, have fun at DrupalCon! A sure fire indicator you haven’t seen the light just yet, you are making the reverend work harder than needs be.

RE: “After all that, still feel you’re ‘just a used car salesman?’”

Holy Crap! I can buy a car on the bava?

Man, this is a full service blog!

RE: “all of which has me thinking I might start the laborious process of archiving every external video I have linked to” — what’s your tool of choice? The FF browser plugin, or something like javimoya.com or keepvid.com — It’d be sweet to be able to do this via some type of automated process.

Cheers,

Bill

I was very happy to see that we could finnaly run your plugin with no issues in WPMu. It saved me a ton of work template hacking More than that, the work you have been doing on the latest versions of this plugin is absolutely amazing. The options tab that defines user privileges and the additional options of PHP in Text widgets is pretty phenomenal, so thank you for all your hard work.

Also, my database tables were in Latin, so that is definitely the problem. I guess the fix is as easy as switching the text formatting to UTF-8, a painless fix for anyone else who is going through this process.

@Tom,

You wanna buy a watch? With your mad skillz I got a lot of keeping up to do. nohing like i little push to keep me on my game.

You got mad skills and most importantly the desire to share them.

Face it.

6.) This may because of different character set encodings between your old and your new blog. Just this weekend I have helped a friend of mine to convert his database tables to the proper encoding. The point is, that if you are using WordPress since version prior of 2.2, your database tables are most probably encoded with MySQLs default setting of ‘latin’. Usually that’s not what you want. You may want to have ‘utf8′. If your new tables are utf8 encoded but you haven’t converted the database content, then extended ASCII characters will mess up the blog.