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WordCast Podcast 110: IQ vs Browser, Wikipedia Loses Contributors, and Why Where You Host Your Site Matters

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:46:16 +0000

This week, the WordCast Podcast tackles Lady Gaga and Kanye West spending their money wisely, the IQ test for browsers that caught the media’s attention and turned out to be a hoax, Twitter classic says bye-bye, Wikipedia losing contributors and why, why where you host your website matters and other web and bloggy legal issues [...]

WordCast Podcast 109: Adobe Edge for HTML5, Google+ Tips, is the world tired of Twitter?

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:52:53 +0000

The WordCast Podcast has returned with the news, tips, and reviews that you crave! Google Chrome passes Firefox in the UK, and Google+ continues growing! We’ve got some tips to help you make the most of it. We’ll also talk about Adobe’s foray into HTML5 animation, and even take look at a brand new celebrity [...]

WordCast Podcast 108: Bieber Dominates the Web, Google+ Backlash, Old Spice Guy Duel

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:38:20 +0000

This week, the WordCast Podcast takes on the manly men: Isaiah Mustafa, Fabio, and… Justin Bieber! We’ll talk about how these celebrities have been blowing up the internet in every way. We’ll also discuss why businesses have been angry at Google+, and more. PLUS: Apply for jobs on LinkedIn? Listen Now: | Download this Podcast The [...]

WordCast Podcast 107: Internet Affects Memory, Web Accessibility, more Murdoch

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:40:56 +0000

It’s a big week on the WordCast Podcast! Google+ continues to grow exponentially, and we’re excited about it! We’ll also discuss the upcoming requirements for web accessibility, got the latest Murdoch drama, and we’ll even talk about how the internet could be affecting our memory! Listen Now: | Download this Podcast The WordCast Podcast is brought [...]

WordCast Podcast 106: Google+, WordPress 3.2, Facebook Video Chat

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:55:15 +0000

This week on the WordCast Podcast, all kinds of new things have arrived! Google+ is here, and we’ve got the inside scoop. We’ll also run through the ins and outs of all that’s new in WordPress 3.2, and take a look at Facebook’s brand new video chat. All that and more make this an episode [...]

WordCast Podcast 105: Twitter in the Media and the Final Cut Firestorm

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:18:40 +0000

It’s a big week on the WordCast Podcast! Kym has left Dave and Lorelle alone, but there’s no shortage of news to discuss. The WordPress Plugin repository had a little security vulnerability, and Apple’s made people mad with Final Cut Pro X! We’ll also discuss how Twitter is being used by mainstream media, and how [...]

WordCast Podcast 104: Tumblr Beats Out WordPress, Should Kids Blog, and Instagram Sucks?

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:58:21 +0000

This week on the WordCast podcast, we’re chock full of hot topics! We give props to Microsoft for ditching Silverlight on their SkyDrive service, and speculate on Tumblr’s blog count surpassing that of WordPress.com. We’ll also share with you why kids should definitely blog, in a passionate discussion you won’t want to miss. PLUS: Cake [...]

WordCast Conversations 23: Robin Cangie, The Future of Social Web Marketing

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:08:41 +0000

In this episode of WordCast Conversations we talk to Robin Cangie of Robinoula about the future of social web marketing and advertising strategies. | Download this Podcast WordCast Conversations is brought to you by Audible.com. Download a FREE audio book today! Show Notes Lorelle VanFossen talks to Robin Cangie of Robinoula on the future of [...]

WordCast Podcast 103: Internet Rights, Fake Bloggers, Facebook, Google, and Webby Awards

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:51:17 +0000

It’s time for more WordCast Podcast talking Facebook, Google, Lady Gaga, Webby Awards, Watson, WordPress, fake bloggers, the Beatles… did we leave anything out? Hosts Kym Huynh and Lorelle VanFossen talk web publishing and social web news and trends this week without Dave Moyer who decided to go on vacation to sunny California. Listen Now: [...]

WordCast Podcast 102: WWDC, the Future of Twitter and Weiner Scandals

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 06:51:03 +0000

We’re back for one more edition of the WordCast Podcast, and it’s all about Twitter! They’re buying Tweetdeck, they’re launching their own photo and video sharing, and they’re in the middle of a political scandal! We’ll even discuss the latest WordPress development news, and the Yoast/WPMU Dev controversy. All that and more inside! Listen Now: [...]

WordCast Podcast 101: WordPress 3.2 Preview, bbPress Plugin, CIA Tracks Facebook?

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Mon, 23 May 2011 23:22:53 +0000

We’re here for the first episode of WordCast’s second hundred episodes, and it’s a big one! WordPress 3.2 beta 1 is here, and we have your inside info on all the new features. bbPress as a WordPress plugin is here in beta. PLUS: Is the CIA tracking Facebook? Listen Now: | Download this Podcast The WordCast [...]

Plugin Picks 19: Snapshot Backup

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:33:56 +0000

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Snapshot Backup creates a snapshot backup of your entire website: that’s your Database, current WP Core, all your Themes, Plugins and Uploads. The resulting single archive file is then uploaded to an FTP repository of your choice.

You can use one FTP repository for snapshots from various sites and group them using File Prefixes and Subdirectories to tell your snapshots apart.

If you don’t have an FTP account you can download the file from your local server at the end of the backup.

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Audio Book Pick: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest: The Millennium Trilogy, Book 31

Plugin Picks 18: BM Shots

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:13:37 +0000

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BM Shots is a plugin that makes use of WordPress api for automatically creating screenshots of your website.

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Audio Book Pick: Humble Pie by Gordon Ramsay

Plugin Picks 17: WordPress SEO

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:35:15 +0000

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WordPress SEO is the most complete SEO plugin that exists today for WordPress.org users. It incorporates everything from a snippet preview that helps you optimize your page titles, meta descriptions and keywords to XML sitemaps, and loads of optimization options in between.

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Audio Book Pick: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

Plugin Picks 16: Jetpack

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:12:26 +0000

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Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.

Features include:

Simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server. Previously provided by WordPress.com Stats.
The WP.me URL shortener.
Hovercard popups for your commenters via Gravatar.
Easily embedded media from popular sites like YouTube, Digg, and Vimeo.
For the Math geeks, a simple way to include beautiful mathematical expressions on your site.
A widget for displaying recent tweets. Previously provided by Wickett Twitter Widget
Your readers can easily share your posts via email or their favorite social networks. Previously provided by the Sharedaddy WordPress plugin.
Your writing will improve thanks to After the Deadline, an artificial intelligence based spell, style, and grammar checker. Previously provided by the After the Deadline WordPress plugin.
and many more to come!

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Audio Book Pick: Bossypants by Tina Fey

Plugin Picks 15: Edit Flow

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:00:43 +0000

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If you manage multiple contributors within a blog, and go back and forth writing articles, the Edit Flow WordPress Plugin” will be a complete lifesaver. Features include…

Custom Statuses – Create any number of custom statuses to define the stages of your editorial workflow. By default, Edit Flow adds “Assigned”, “Pitch”, and “Waiting for Feedback” to WordPress’ default “Draft” and “Pending Review”.

Editorial Comments – Threaded commenting in the WordPress admin on every post for discussion about the production of a given piece of content. This can cutdown on long-winded back-and-forth email threads as all comments are conveniently displayed within the Edit Post page.

Email Notifications – Receive email notifications for new editorial comments or when a post changes status. Notifications are delivered to admins and the post author by default, but any users that comment on posts will receive follow up email notifications.

Usergroups – Similar to roles, usergroups provice a way to group users that perform similar roles in your organization. At the moment, usergroups can be subscribed to posts so that all members receive post updates.

Calendar – View all of your upcoming posts on a week-by-week calendar, and filter by post status, category, or user.

Editorial Metadata – Define custom editorial metadata to be attached to every post. Admins can add editorial metadata like “contact information”, “assignment description”, “due date”, or “location” using the following field types: checkbox, date, location, paragraph, text, or user dropdown.

Story Budget – View all of your upcoming posts in a more traditional story budget view. Posts are grouped by category, and view can be filtered by post status, category, user, or limited to a date range. Hit the print button to take it on the go.

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Audio Book Pick: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: The Millennium Trilogy, Book 1 by Stieg Larsson

WordCast Conversations 22: Scott Kingsley Clark, Creator of Pods CMS WordPress Plugin

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 06:16:24 +0000

In this episode of WordCast Conversations we talk to Scott Kingsley Clark, well-known around the WordPress Community for his innovative development of the Pods WordPress Plugin. The Pods CMS WordPress Plugin turns WordPress into a drag-and-drop, modular framework ideal for magazines, corporations, schools, and businesses wanting micro-control over their layout and structure, enhanced even more [...]

Plugin Picks 14: WP No Category Base

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:00:04 +0000

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Tired of having /category/ in all of your category archive URLS? The WP No Category Base WordPress Plugin removes them, cleaning up your permalinks.

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Audio Book Pick: Tick Tock by James Patterson

WordCast Conversations 21: Konstantin Kovshenin, WordPress Developer

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:00:17 +0000

In this episode of WordCast Conversations we talk to Konstantin Kovshenin, a web developer from Moscow, Russia and Chief Technical Officer at Frumatic. A WordPress fan and web developer for over five years, he thrives within the code of the web, but he’s also fascinated by the social web, the marketing, mashups, and social network [...]

WordCast Conversations 20: Brett and Kate McKay, Founders of The Art of Manliness

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:17:49 +0000

In this episode of WordCast Conversations we talk to Brett and Kate McKay about The Art of Manliness. Download this Podcast WordCast Conversations is brought to you by Audible.com. Download a FREE audio book today! Show Notes The Art of Manliness is a unique blog. Its focus is on men’s interests and lifestyles, yet they [...]

Plugin Picks 13: Faster Image Insert WordPress Plugin

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:00:49 +0000

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If you’re tired of waiting around for WordPress when adding images to posts, maybe the Faster Image Insert WordPress plugin can help.

Tired of waiting for Media Manager to load in thickbox on every single insertion?

Tired of having no control on background interface when thickbox pop-up is on?

Tired of the fact that neither the Media Manager nor the Shortcode API gives you enough control over where the image should appear?

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Audio Book Pick: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest: The Millennium Trilogy, Book 31

Plugin Picks 12: Blackbird Pie WordPress Plugin

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:00:55 +0000

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Including tweets in your WordPress blog posts has been a hassle until the Blackbird Pie WordPress Plugin. It integrates your tweets into your writing in a clean, appealing format. It’s even been added to WordPress.com blogs!

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Audible Pick: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

WordCast Conversations 19: Stephen Baker, Author of Final Jeopardy Man Vs. Machine

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:55:27 +0000

Stephen Baker of The Numerati and author of the new book, Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything, is our guest in this episode of WordCast Conversations talking about the incredible IBM Watson computer that recently took on This is JEOPARDY!, the popular television quiz show in the United States. | [...]

WordCast Conversations 18: Anthony Cole, Organizer of WordCamp Melbourne

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:28:21 +0000

In this episode of WordCast Conversations, Kym Huynh talks with WordCamp Melbourne 2011 organizer Anthony Cole about the February 26-27 event in Melbourne, Australia, as well as his work within the WordPress Community. | Download this Podcast WordCast Conversations is brought to you by Audible.com. Download a FREE audio book today! Cole considers himself half [...]

Plugin Picks 11: cforms Contact Form WordPress Plugin

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:00:24 +0000

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cforms is one of the biggest names in WordPress contact forms for a reason. We use it here at WordCast and love it.

cforms is a powerful and feature rich form plugin for WordPress, offering convenient deployment of multiple Ajax driven contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page.

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Audible Pick: How to Survive the End of the World As We Know It: Tactics, Techniques and Technologies for Uncertain Things

Plugin Picks 10: ManageWP

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:00:03 +0000

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Too many WordPress blogs, and too little time to switch around updating them all? Manage all of your WordPress sites in one place with Vladimir Prelovac‘s ManageWP WordPress service.

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Audible Pick: How to Survive the End of the World As We Know It: Tactics, Techniques and Technologies for Uncertain Things

WordCast Conversations 17: Giovanni Gallucci, Founder of Learn Social Media

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 04:17:48 +0000

| Download this Podcast Giovanni Gallucci calls himself a “recovering .NET programmer turned tech evangelist and Internet Markeing Consultant.” He works with major corporate companies to provide training on SEO and social media, and recently launched Learn Social Media, a premium membership video show about the professional ins and outs of social media. He admits [...]

WordCast Conversations 16: WordCamp Developers

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:22:00 +0000

WordCamp: Developers is the first WordCamp exclusively for developers and will be May 5, 2011, in Vancouver, Canada. WordCast Conversations interviews one of the organizers of this unique event. | Download this Podcast WordCast Conversations is brought to you by Audible.com. Download a FREE audio book today! Episode 16 Lorelle VanFossen talks to Morten Rand-Hendriksen [...]

WordCast Conversations 15: SOBCon Colorado 2010

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:20:09 +0000

Lorelle VanFossen talks to Liz Strauss and Terry Starbucker, founders of the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon) about their upcoming SOBCon Colorado special event on September 17-18, 2010. They share the success stories behind the event for helping people build their online business and offer some great tips for community building and getting more comments on your site.

WordPress Conversations 15: Andrea Rennick, Founder of WPMU Tutorials

podcast@wordcastnet.com (WordCast Team) — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:24:35 +0000

In Episode 15 of WordCast Conversations, Kym talks to Andrea Rennick of WPMU Tutorials and WordPressMU fame. She's worked intimately with the WordPress development team on the merger of WordPressMU into WordPress 3.0. She shares some of the behind the scenes stories, how she got involved, and the things you need to know about how WordPress 3.0 will work as a blog network.