Deprecated - Media and document management

I've got the book review module running in my Drupal, but my users are disconcerted by one thing: It seems that all their reviews get lumped into one big pile. The books we review are in many different categories, from how-to-draw to romance novels. It seems a pity that with Druapl's vocabulary system and all that this module has no way of organizing itself.

As I am relatively new to Drupal. Perhaps there is something I have overlooked. Is there a way I can compensate for this problem, or a snippet of code I can tweak? I have searched this site to no avail.

I'm working on creating a site where aspiring comics creators can come to share informaton and get tips from the pros. It would be awesome if they could upload their own comics, too, sort of like at DrunkDuck.com or Keenspace. I tried the comics module, but it seemed a little stiff to my test group. No one could figure out if it would let them each have their own comics or what, and there was much confusion with the "sequence number" in the interface. Does anybody have any experience with this module or can you suggest a different module that can do what I am talking about?

The main meeting broke into smaller groups for 45minutes discussion. I moderated a media session.
We started out looking at what Media meant for everyone and how they plan to use drupal for media-related projects. There were users with moderate media needs, intensive 100,000+ node users and a group aggregating media feeds. Interest in all the media types was represented in the group of roughly ten people: flash,video, audio, appcasting, etc).

Most of the meeting focussed on media assets as nodes and metadata but another important issue with media concerns use of Flash, audio and other media elements in the GUI and navigational aspects of drupal sites. People are finding it hard to build flash intensive skins and themes.

We discussed the difficulty with the many conflicting and poorly documented syndication formats for media, e.g. itunes store, Media RSS and the transcoding requirements of the various hosting and distribution partners, e.g., video.google.com vs itunes video store.

I was flattered that many people had read my grumble about the need for coordinated effort on media integration in drupal:
http://drupal.org/node/30399

I announced I am turning these grumbles into action: a module for 4.6 that implements a node for all the media types of interest. I didn't mention the working name for it: polymedia. People expressed interest in seeing the database schema and the list of media types I plan to support.

I posted some questions on this here (http://drupal.org/node/42364), mostly mentioning blogger's "Blogger for Word" tool that is a simple program that makes publishing to your blogger blog a snap. I don't think the code is open and available. Of course a great solution would be to take that code and simply point it to your drupal blog, but some other options using macros are mentioned in the thread that I haven't got working yet.

Though I didn't really write much, I was surprised at how little discussion there was, and appears to be, about offline content creation tools. In the past I thought the lack of simple integrated image support was where Drupal was behind the curve. That is improved much now, even if not perfect for everyone. Now I'd say a piece of the puzzle that could really keep Drupal ahead of the rest is integration with commonly used word processing tools like Open Office Word and Word. As this article notes , notes Word Processing is far behind our Web 2.0 world.


I've tried W.Bloggar and some other tools and have found them to be helpful, but still a far cry from the familiar environments of Word and Writer. I'm sure most of the developers who hangout on Drupal scoff at anything nice being said about Word, but the reality is that casual Word users are finding a need to publish to the web. Developing some tools or documenting existing solutions that make creating content for Drupal (ideally more content types than just blogs) as easy as using Blogger for Word would be a great boon to the Drupal world.

When every times I attached my jpg file(files) on, it will not shown from the link, and totally there is no link presented at all. How come this could be happen?

I'm running "Drupal 4.5.7" on my home machine.

I noticed that every file I attached to drupal, it will becoming a txt at last. How come?

for eg:

the file I attached is "mypic.jpg"

after the attaching process, it will shown the result like this

Attachment Size
===================
mypic.jpg.txt 3.63KB

can somebody help me to solve this out?

I've successfully running Drupal4.6.5 on my own machine for testing and everything seems good. But I encountered an "attachment" problems without the way of solve it.

1) After i uploaded the pictures (as a attachments) in "Create Content", no matter i try to preview it nor i decided to post it, I will unable to see the picture. There is no button such as "attachment" for me to click for. And the picture I uploaded seems dissapeared itself. I‘ve check the log file and it seems i've sucessfully uploaded the pictures. But where is it?