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Multi-author serial podcast generator thingy

27 March 2007

This post is deprecated; see the new serial podcaster page.

I finished a multi-author version of my serial podcast feed generator today. When I say finished, I mean it works; there’s still work to do to make it pretty and check for errors. Here’s how it works and the process I envision people following:

• install the thing, which is basically untarring it
• set the site-wide variables, located in a separate config file
• protect the site-wide admin page with .htaccess
• visit the site admin page and create a “podcast”; here, I’m thinking of a podcast per course, not per author
• make sure you have your podcast user for the podcast you just created in your password file
• let your podcast user know where his/her site is, and username/password info you used for the password file
• your podcast user can go to his/her admin page (protected by .htaccess) and upload mp3’s
• visit the podcast page and enjoy

This isn’t really a podcasting community site; instead, it provides a relatively quick and easy way to allow faculty to publish a podcast.

Here are a couple of screenshots:

Creating a new podcast site

Newly created site (no files uploaded yet)