On Saturday, July 26, at DrupalCamp Denver, Aaron Winborn will remotely present an overview of the multimedia options for Drupal. We'll examine best practices for handling Images, Video, and Audio on your sites. We'll cover the modules best suited to specific tasks, with some hands-on examples and site recipes.

Aaron Winborn will be presenting with Andrew Morton (drewish) from the Media Code Sprint in Portland, with one of the aims being to put better media handling into Drupal core!

He has just completed writing Drupal Multimedia, to be published in September. (Read the full book announcement at Drupal.org.)

Here at Advomatic, we're getting pretty good at the whole widget thing. The data thing has been our forte for a while, but now there's the widgets that we keep nailing, and of course we're still pretty good at the whole the speaking truth to power thing. Let's discuss:

The non-partisan Drum Major Institute for Public Policy (DMI) issues annual reports analyzing the impact of domestic legislation on America’s middle class. Literally grading Members of Congress based on whether their votes are for or against "legislation significant to America's current and aspiring middle class."