WordCast 20: We *heart* Lorelle
By Dave Moyer, posted Jul 8 2008 at 6:30 pm | No Comments ยป
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Hosts: Lorelle VanFossen, Beth Skinner, Kym Huynh and Dave Moyer
It’s our twentieth episode, and to celebrate, we have the longest WordCast in history- nearly two hours! Today we’re joined by Lorelle VanFossen, to discuss our favorite blogging books, WordPress 2.6, bad looking ads, and we’ll have an exclusive interview with Matt Mullenweg! PLUS: A bit of dirt on the Mullenweg family?
This week’s show notes:
- Lorelle’s Book Picks:
- LIFE 101: Everything We Wished We Had Learned About Life in School-But Didn’t
- DO IT! Let’s Get Off Our Buts
- How to Survive the Loss of a Love
- You Can’t Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
- LOVE 101: To Love Oneself Is The Beginning of a Lifelong Romance
- The LIFE 101 Quote Book
- How to Heal Depression
- Ain’t Nobody’s Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country
- The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog
- Dave’s Book Picks: Getting Things Done, Upgrade Your Life
- Kym’s Book Pick: The Friendship We Share
- Beth’s Book Pick: Brotherhood of Warriors
- Google retiring AdSense referrals, but they still look terrible
- Using WordPress in your domain name: a illegal, or just disrespectful?
- WordPress consultants?
- Beth’s Pick: Embeddable bit for Real Estate and Mommy Blogs
- Interview: Matt Mullenweg
- Lorelle’s Dirt: The abandoned Mullenweg Family Blog
- Google Gears in WordPress.com and soon, WordPress.org 2.6!
- All In One SEO Pack Replaced?
- Kym’s Pick: WP Wall
- Dave’s pick: Live Blogroll
- Quick Tip: Randomize your blog roll
- Lorelle’s Picks: WordPress Comment Ninja and Akismet Anti Spam
- WordCamps! Upcoming camps include:
- The New York City WordPress – July 19, 2008
- WordCamp UK – July 19-20, 2008, Birmingham, UK VENUE CHANGE
- Boston WordPress July Meetup – July 24, 2008
- The Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress July Meetup – July 26, 2008
- WordCamp San Francisco 2008 at Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF – Aug 16, 2008
- WordCamp Philippines – September 6, 2008
- South by Deep South WordCamp – Birmingham, Alabama – September 26-28
- WordCamp Portland, Oregon – September 27, 2008
- WordCamp Toronto 2008 at Centennial College, Progress Campus, Toronto – October 4, 2008
- Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii – Oct 24, 2008
- MinneWordCamp – Minneapolis – November 15, 2008
- WordCamp Australia – Sydney, December 6-7, 2008