Advantage Labs The Art & Science of Online Progress

We had a tough time shaking out the sillies today.  Lab hours opened with dialects, gopher tails, and a few childishly derisive comments about taxonomy.  Kay even demoed her portable fan!

A jam-packed week once again.  There were many exclamations of "Yessss!", so I hope it was also productive.  It's fun to watch people work as the lightbulb pops on.  In fact, there were so many lightbulbs, we blew a fuse!

More fun in the sunny meeting room! Most of the members wanted to learn more about newsletter handling, so Lab Hours started out with Allie going through the modules and steps needed towards implementing a mail solution.

Jay from the Twin Cities Daily Planet recently filed a request in our project management system requesting info about how to embed an audio file (with a player) hosted by a third party source in a story node on their site to allow visitors to listen to audio tracks while reading related stories. This question and its cousin about how to embed video files hosted by YouTube or Blip.tv has been coming up a lot lately. Here was my response, which I share since it may be of interest to you: