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Monthly Archive for July, 2008
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
With the recent leak of game details for the upcoming Will Wright game, Spore, it was only reasonable that your hosts Kym Huynh and Alehkhs dedicated this episode to the day that will live forever in infamy as the “Text Dump Bonanza”. Join us as we reveal top secret details and discuss all the latest and greatest in Spore related news.
- Intelligent Design in Spore
- Penis Monsters
- Spore Text Dump and more Spore Text Dumps
- Spore: It’s a game after all but maybe even more
- Spore Bridging the Gap Between Gamers and Non-Gamers
- Help file for full game extracted
- Spore Creature Creator Beats The Sims 2 and World of Warcraft
- Moving on from Penis Monsters
- No Plants in the Official Release of Spore
On today’s edition of Best of the Net, Kym’s going to show you a site with some of the best tutorials around — www.photojojo.com
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On this week’s show: Irrelevant picks, irreverent humor, and much more that doesn’t necessarily start with the letters I-R-R.
- Brian Gardner releases Revolution City Theme
- Kym is writing a song as a prize for the plugin competition
- Top 3 underrated WP plugins
- WP 2.6 Beta 1
- Beth’s pick: DidTheyReadIt
- Dave’s pick: AskApache Password Protect
- Kym’s pick: SEO Smart Links
- Today is Unofficial International WordPress Day! Write your post or comment to be included in the drawing.
Today’s site is for all of you who just want to make your life a little easier to live. Either making it a bit more productive, a bit more organized, or just generally easier to live. It’s appropriately named Lifehacker.
Join Kym Huynh, Joe Toomey and Alehkhs as we introduce to everyone the world’s first Spore podcast.
- Creature Creator at Spore
- A brief overview of the game
- Bringing together all the features of the best games
- Content Sharing
- Can the content be filtered?
- Spore gets 130,000 creations in the first day
- The Spore release date revealed
- A little bit about Will Wright
- Adult themed creatures at Spore
- Spore Galactic Edition announced
- Spore Expansion Packs
- Procedural Animation Differences
- Is there too much hype for Spore?
- Syncing content in Spore?
- The Unique Multiplayer Concept
- Back to the Spore hype!
- Penis Monsters
- People getting suspended for penis monsters and bitchin’-a-saurs
- User generated content the new sweatshop of the 21st century?
- The war on user generated content
- Public Service Announcement: Naming an entire race of creatures “Bobby” is bad!
