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WordCast 19: Irreverelevant

Kym Huynh — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:53:26 +0000

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.

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Best of the Net: 7/1/08 - Lifehacker

Kym Huynh — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:50:56 +0000

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.

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SporeCast 1: Bobby Is Bad

Kym Huynh — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:21:18 +0000

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!

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Best of the Net: 6/27/08 - Today in Rotten History

Kym Huynh — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:25:25 +0000

On today’s show, Kym will show us a great site if you want to learn a bit of the… less optimistic history out there, Today in Rotten History, because we live in a slightly mad world.

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BOTN Daily Cool Site: 6/25/08 - HTML Playground

Kym Huynh — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:12:41 +0000

On today’s Cool Site, we’re turning the spotlight on a great little site to learn and use HTML: HTML Playground.

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WordCast 18: Sucky Stats

Kym Huynh — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:19:09 +0000

We’re all here this week for a WordCast that will knock your socks off! (Please pick them up. We don’t like socks on the floor.) From stats, premium websites, to German plugins, you’ll find it all in this week’s show.

WordPress stats are so awesome, even MovableType’s using it. (Even though none of us do!)
Top Gear Magazine’s blog is now on WordPress
Info on WP 2.6… is this new?
WPforSale.com is a listing of everything WordPress that’s NOT free.
$3500+ in prizes for the Weblog Tools Collection plugin contest!
Tip of the Week: Moving WordPress within your site
Blogger’s Glossary
Beth’s pick: WordPress Voting plugin
Kym’s pick: SEO Friendly Images plugin
Dave’s (German) pick: Reveal IDs plugin
Twitter’s got some problems. But we love it anyway.

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BOTN Daily Cool Site: 6/24/08 - DarkCopy

Kym Huynh — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:15:46 +0000

Kym brings you an awesome online text editor to type distraction free: DarkCopy!

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WordCast 16: Serenade the Developers

Kym Huynh — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:20:35 +0000

Jeff Chandler of WordPress Weekly and Weblog Tools Collection joins us as a guest host this week to talk about the latest in WordPress and blogging world.

3G iPhone gets blogging capability
WP site hacked? Holy Shmoley knows what to do
WordPress Plugin Competition prizes
2007 Plugin Competition Winners
Lorelle with info on how to sneak around blocks
What to do if deactivating a plugin kills your blog
Kym’s pick: AJAX Edit Comments plugin
Jeff’s pick: WP Comment Remix plugin
Dave’s pick: Maintainance Mode plugin

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Best of the Net 1: The Google Bar

Kym Huynh — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:25:44 +0000

It’s the inaugural episode of Best of the Net, and to celebrate, we’ve brought the Internet to animals. Great.

Topics and links from this episode:

Petentials - The Internet for Pets
Is My Pet Gay?
Viral Vids of the Week: Girl Trains for for Guitar Hero and Touch My Body Parody
Internet Week
Plurk is taking on Twitter
Super Mario Bros Super Sound Synthesizer
Goosh - The Google Shell Interface
YouTube takes a page from Viddler’s book

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WordCast 14: Blog’s Anatomy

Kym Huynh — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:54:35 +0000

On this week’s show, we’ll set some guidelines for weekly picks so Beth doesn’t keep up with the junk she’s been bringing. Plus, interviews with two developers that you won’t want to miss!

Topics and links from this week’s show:

WordPress 2.6 Demo Site
Post Revisions in WP 2.6
Mmm… WordPress on a Stick!
Legalities of Blogging
Kym loves these Web 2.0 Icons
According to PlanetOzh, Adobe prefers WordPress
Health.com redesigns their site in WordPress
Dave’s Pick: Plugins List
Kym’s Picks: Featured Content Gallery and Featured Category Slideshow
Beth’s LAME Pick: Blog Badges and Buttons
Beth’s BORROWED Pick: Sidebar Tabs
Should WordPress have its own CSS framework?
Interview: Brian Gardner (Premium Theme Developer)
Interview: Vladimir Prelovac (Plugin Developer)

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