WordCast 29: I’m Your Fairy Blogmother!
Posted Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 8:55 pm by Dave Moyer
No Kym. No Beth. But have no fear, the FAIRY BLOGMOTHER is here! (We’ll remind you of that fact several times, just in case you forget.) Lorelle VanFossen joins us this week for an incredible WordCast filled with everything from 2.7 updates to WordPress on the iPhone to Martha Stewart! (Oh yeah, and there’s some laughing here and there). PLUS: The Mugshot contest winners announced! Took us long enough. All that and more this week on WordCast!
Episode 29:
- WordCamp Denver Facebook Page launched
- Lorelle’s Portand Keynote was amazing.
- State of the Blogophere 2008
- Twitter posts in your WordPress: the right way to do it.
- Martha Stewart hosts a TV show on nothing else but blogging!
- WordPress for iPhone Downloaded over 100,000 times
- 2.7 Feature Update from Ryan Boren
- Tips of the Week: Changing the number of posts displayed in WordPress, and all about WordPress MU
- Dave’s pick: Role Scoper Plugin
- Lorelle’s pick: Viper’s Video Quicktags Plugin
Thanks to Derek K. Miller for our music.
WordPress 2.7 rolling towards release
Posted Monday, September 29th, 2008 5:33 pm by Dave Moyer
Blogs are on the rise. There are over twenty-two million bloggers in the world, and over ninety-four million internet users (a whopping 50% of people online) are regular blog readers, according to eMarketer statistics from 2007, according to the State of the Blogosphere for 2008. One of the most common services available to power all of these blogs is called WordPress, an open source blogging platform that allows users to setup their very own blog on their own server. WordPress is made by Automattic, a small startup formed after the creation of the platform by original developer Matt Mullenweg. It is easy to see that WordPress is popular! It was downloaded more than 1.55 million times in 2007 alone, and their free, hosted blog service offering users a quick and easy blog at name.wordpress.com hosts over four million blogs to date. My blog runs on WordPress! It’s a great system, and I wouldn’t use anything else. I even host a podcast devoted to WordPress topics, WordCast. Read more >>
I Can Has ICHCB book?
Posted Monday, September 29th, 2008 5:27 pm by Dave Moyer
I enjoy many hours of enjoyment (when I have hours available) from LOLcats, thanks to blogs like I Can Has Cheezburger? In a recent post, they announced something interesting, entertaining, weird and exciting all at the same time…
The burger team is excited to announce our NAWT SECOND (#1) Book, “I Can Has Cheezburger? A Lolcat Colleckshun”. On stands October 7th, and available for pre-sale nao at these fine establishments!
Not sure if I want to buy this. I’m not THAT LOLcrazy. The official website for the book is lulzftw.com.
Fall is here!
Posted Sunday, September 28th, 2008 5:56 pm by Dave Moyer
Starting to feel fall in the air here in Colorado! I’m ready for it. Since classes resumed at the end of August the weather has made me feel like it should be Thanksgiving or Halloween, so I’m excited that I’m no longer crazy and those holidays are actually approaching. (You’ll notice I’ve changed my background accordingly- what do you think?)
Leaves have already started to fall, though you can’t see it in this picture (of course). I saw Charlotte sitting over underneath the tree, opened up Photobooth and took this. Are you ready for fall? Wish summer would stay a bit longer? Just want to move on to winter?
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