Well it was named wordpress - it catered for the written word brilliantly! Media was an afterthought and thus we're all playing catch up!

The Media Manager is without doubt the aceleeles heal in Wordpress... it does so little when it could easily do so much.

1) Folders, keywords, metadata, categories should be able to added on any media type.
2) Content should be flat - no hieracrchy given to different media types like with Drupal.
3) Slideshows, styles, related posts etc should be accessible and inttuitively acccessiblke via the media manager.
4) Finally, (beyond scope but v facebook / web 2.000000001) you should be able to control who sees or accesses what media type and where! Also the ability to download, purchase, listen etc.

Also should connect to apis - facebook, flickr, twitter etc - make wordpress the central management tool for your life.......

To little time to chat..... babas and code!

Have been working on a mediarich offshoot of wordpress that i'd love to show the dudes at automatic sometime? Thoughts?

KR

R