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]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/09/diane-jacob-killer-food-blogs/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Dianne Jacob: Killer Food Blogs http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/09/aaron-jorbin-don%e2%80%99t-repeat-your-mistakes-writing-javascript-unit-tests/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/09/aaron-jorbin-don%e2%80%99t-repeat-your-mistakes-writing-javascript-unit-tests/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:50:28 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7350 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/09/aaron-jorbin-don%e2%80%99t-repeat-your-mistakes-writing-javascript-unit-tests/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Aaron Jorbin: Don’t Repeat Your Mistakes: Writing Javascript Unit Tests http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/09/chris-coyier-css-pseudo-elements-for-fun-and-profit/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/09/chris-coyier-css-pseudo-elements-for-fun-and-profit/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:21:11 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7262 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/09/chris-coyier-css-pseudo-elements-for-fun-and-profit/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Chris Coyier: CSS Pseudo Elements for Fun and Profit! http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/09/sujan-patel-seo-for-wordpress-in-2011/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/09/sujan-patel-seo-for-wordpress-in-2011/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:22:18 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7384 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/09/sujan-patel-seo-for-wordpress-in-2011/feed/ 1 blazestreaming g Sujan Patel: SEO for WordPress in 2011 http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/austin-smith-from-drupal-to-wordpress-migrating-the-new-york-observer/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/austin-smith-from-drupal-to-wordpress-migrating-the-new-york-observer/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:28:13 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7143 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/austin-smith-from-drupal-to-wordpress-migrating-the-new-york-observer/feed/ 1 blazestreaming g Austin Smith: From Drupal to WordPress: Migrating the New York Observer http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/jane-wells-daryl-koopersmith-john-james-jacoby-bendywords/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/jane-wells-daryl-koopersmith-john-james-jacoby-bendywords/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:06:51 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7347 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/jane-wells-daryl-koopersmith-john-james-jacoby-bendywords/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Jane Wells, Daryl Koopersmith, John James Jacoby: Bendywords! http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/ed-celis-build-a-better-frankenstein%e2%80%99s-monster-tabletracker-com/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/ed-celis-build-a-better-frankenstein%e2%80%99s-monster-tabletracker-com/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:37:38 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7201 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/ed-celis-build-a-better-frankenstein%e2%80%99s-monster-tabletracker-com/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Ed Celis: Build a Better Frankenstein’s Monster: Tabletracker.com http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/aaron-campbell-and-andy-stratton-getting-involved-contribution-and-courtesy/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/aaron-campbell-and-andy-stratton-getting-involved-contribution-and-courtesy/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:29:11 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7346 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/aaron-campbell-and-andy-stratton-getting-involved-contribution-and-courtesy/feed/ 1 blazestreaming g AaronCampbell and AndyStratton: Getting Involved: Contribution and Courtesy http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/scott-taylor-wordpress-in-the-enterprise-at-emusic/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/scott-taylor-wordpress-in-the-enterprise-at-emusic/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:32:26 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7214 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/scott-taylor-wordpress-in-the-enterprise-at-emusic/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Scott Taylor: WordPress in the Enterprise at eMusic http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/steve-zehngut-how-to-hire-and-manage-a-developer/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/steve-zehngut-how-to-hire-and-manage-a-developer/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:34:24 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7218 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/steve-zehngut-how-to-hire-and-manage-a-developer/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Steve Zehngut: How To Hire and Manage a Developer http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/jonathan-davis-wordpress-and-e-commerce-navigating-the-minefield/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/jonathan-davis-wordpress-and-e-commerce-navigating-the-minefield/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:26:05 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7284 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/08/jonathan-davis-wordpress-and-e-commerce-navigating-the-minefield/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Jonathan Davis: WordPress and E-commerce: Navigating the Minefield http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/pete-davies-vikings-viagra-and-versace-a-brief-history-of-spam/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/pete-davies-vikings-viagra-and-versace-a-brief-history-of-spam/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:55:55 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7202 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/pete-davies-vikings-viagra-and-versace-a-brief-history-of-spam/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Pete Davies: Vikings, Viagra, and Versace: a brief history of spam http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/sheri-bigelow-top-10-features/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/sheri-bigelow-top-10-features/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:07:02 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7271 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/sheri-bigelow-top-10-features/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Sheri Bigelow: Top 10 Features You Aren’t Using – But Should Be! http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/mark-jaquith-jon-cave-brad-williams-plugin-security-showdown/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/mark-jaquith-jon-cave-brad-williams-plugin-security-showdown/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:30:26 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7344 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/mark-jaquith-jon-cave-brad-williams-plugin-security-showdown/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Mark Jaquith, Jon Cave, Brad Williams: Plugin Security Showdown http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/daryl-koopersmith-decisions-not-options/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/daryl-koopersmith-decisions-not-options/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:29:45 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7330 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/daryl-koopersmith-decisions-not-options/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Daryl Koopersmith: Decisions, Not Options http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/sara-cannon-responsive-web-design-2/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/sara-cannon-responsive-web-design-2/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:38:31 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7259 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/sara-cannon-responsive-web-design-2/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Sara Cannon: Responsive Web Design http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/kevin-cheng-see-what-i-mean-how-to-use-comics-to-communicate-ideas/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/kevin-cheng-see-what-i-mean-how-to-use-comics-to-communicate-ideas/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:22:52 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7268 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/kevin-cheng-see-what-i-mean-how-to-use-comics-to-communicate-ideas/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Kevin Cheng: See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/chelsea-otakan-version-control-for-designers/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/chelsea-otakan-version-control-for-designers/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:07:56 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7248 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/chelsea-otakan-version-control-for-designers/feed/ 1 blazestreaming g Chelsea Otakan:Version Control for Designers http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/otto-wood-andrew-nacin-the-otto-and-nacin-show/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/otto-wood-andrew-nacin-the-otto-and-nacin-show/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:53:02 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7148 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/otto-wood-andrew-nacin-the-otto-and-nacin-show/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Otto Wood, Andrew Nacin: The Otto and Nacin Show http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/david-cowgill-brian-gardner-drew-strojny-lance-willett-making-money-and-having-fun-selling-wordpress-themes/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/david-cowgill-brian-gardner-drew-strojny-lance-willett-making-money-and-having-fun-selling-wordpress-themes/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:36:47 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7256 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/07/david-cowgill-brian-gardner-drew-strojny-lance-willett-making-money-and-having-fun-selling-wordpress-themes/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g David Cowgill, Brian Gardner, Drew Strojny, Lance Willett: Making Money And Having Fun Selling WordPress Themes http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/02/andrew-nacin-debugging-in-wordpress/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/02/andrew-nacin-debugging-in-wordpress/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:08:07 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7326 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/02/andrew-nacin-debugging-in-wordpress/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Andrew Nacin: Debugging in WordPress http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/02/crystal-beasley-getting-to-1-negotiating-features-in-open-source-teams/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/02/crystal-beasley-getting-to-1-negotiating-features-in-open-source-teams/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 07:11:13 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7265 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/09/02/crystal-beasley-getting-to-1-negotiating-features-in-open-source-teams/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Crystal Beasley: Getting to +1: Negotiating Features in Open Source Teams http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/aaron-hockley-irl-ftw-organizing-meetups-and-wordcamps/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/aaron-hockley-irl-ftw-organizing-meetups-and-wordcamps/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:11:19 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7386 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/aaron-hockley-irl-ftw-organizing-meetups-and-wordcamps/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Aaron Hockley: IRL FTW! Organizing Meetups and WordCamps http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/barry-abrahamson-ask-barry-about-scaling-servers-or-wordpress-com-infrastructure/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/barry-abrahamson-ask-barry-about-scaling-servers-or-wordpress-com-infrastructure/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:15:18 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7157 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/barry-abrahamson-ask-barry-about-scaling-servers-or-wordpress-com-infrastructure/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Barry Abrahamson: Ask Barry (About Scaling, Servers, or WordPress.com Infrastructure) http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/willo-o%e2%80%99brien-leveling-up-your-blog-with-video/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/willo-o%e2%80%99brien-leveling-up-your-blog-with-video/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:13:14 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7288 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/willo-o%e2%80%99brien-leveling-up-your-blog-with-video/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Willo O’Brien: Leveling Up Your Blog with Video http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/heather-gold-tools-for-tummeling-in-the-age-of-google-plus/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/heather-gold-tools-for-tummeling-in-the-age-of-google-plus/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:31:40 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7382 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/heather-gold-tools-for-tummeling-in-the-age-of-google-plus/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Heather Gold: Tools for Tummeling in the Age of Google Plus http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/teru-kuwayama-taking-wordpress-to-war-basetrack-org/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/teru-kuwayama-taking-wordpress-to-war-basetrack-org/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:37:31 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7381 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/teru-kuwayama-taking-wordpress-to-war-basetrack-org/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Teru Kuwayama: Taking WordPress to War: Basetrack.org http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/sara-rosso-intro-to-the-wordpress-ecosystem/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/sara-rosso-intro-to-the-wordpress-ecosystem/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:33:57 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7208 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/sara-rosso-intro-to-the-wordpress-ecosystem/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Sara Rosso: Intro to the WordPress Ecosystem http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/mike-adams-developing-secure-widgets-secure-iframe-communication-in-a-pre-postmessage-world/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/mike-adams-developing-secure-widgets-secure-iframe-communication-in-a-pre-postmessage-world/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:31:36 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7341 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/mike-adams-developing-secure-widgets-secure-iframe-communication-in-a-pre-postmessage-world/feed/ 1 blazestreaming g Mike Adams: Developing Secure Widgets: Secure iFrame Communication in a Pre-postMessage World http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/shannon-smith-taking-wordpress-to-the-world-options-for-a-multilingual-site/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/shannon-smith-taking-wordpress-to-the-world-options-for-a-multilingual-site/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:24:04 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7216 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/shannon-smith-taking-wordpress-to-the-world-options-for-a-multilingual-site/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Shannon Smith: Taking WordPress to the World : Options for a Multilingual Site http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/29/hanni-ross-top-5-ways-to-break-your-blog-%e2%80%93-and-fix-it/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/29/hanni-ross-top-5-ways-to-break-your-blog-%e2%80%93-and-fix-it/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:24:35 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7281 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/29/hanni-ross-top-5-ways-to-break-your-blog-%e2%80%93-and-fix-it/feed/ 1 blazestreaming g Hanni Ross: Top 5 Ways to Break Your Blog – and Fix It http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/29/andrew-riddles-creating-a-wordcampus/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/29/andrew-riddles-creating-a-wordcampus/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:21:25 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7207 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/29/andrew-riddles-creating-a-wordcampus/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Andrew Riddles: Creating a WordCampus http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/29/ian-stewart-awesome-up-your-boring-theme-wordpress-post-formats/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/29/ian-stewart-awesome-up-your-boring-theme-wordpress-post-formats/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:19:27 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7244 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/29/ian-stewart-awesome-up-your-boring-theme-wordpress-post-formats/feed/ 3 blazestreaming g Ian Stewart: Awesome Up Your Boring Theme: WordPress Post Formats http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/29/estelle-weyl-css3-features-making-snow-in-the-summer-without-javascript/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/29/estelle-weyl-css3-features-making-snow-in-the-summer-without-javascript/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:17:32 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7253 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/29/estelle-weyl-css3-features-making-snow-in-the-summer-without-javascript/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Estelle Weyl: CSS3 Features: Making Snow in the Summer without JavaScript http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/29/core-team-qa/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/29/core-team-qa/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:06:32 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7105 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/29/core-team-qa/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Core Team: Q&A http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/28/jeff-veen-how-the-web-works/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/28/jeff-veen-how-the-web-works/#comments Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:02:32 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7379 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/28/jeff-veen-how-the-web-works/feed/ 2 blazestreaming g Jeff Veen: How the Web Works http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/23/michael-%e2%80%9cmitcho%e2%80%9d-%e8%8a%b3%e8%b2%b4-erlewine-building-custom-cms-applications-on-wordpress/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/23/michael-%e2%80%9cmitcho%e2%80%9d-%e8%8a%b3%e8%b2%b4-erlewine-building-custom-cms-applications-on-wordpress/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:59:07 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7158 ]]>

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]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/23/greg-veen-web-fonts-for-developers/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g Greg Veen: Web Fonts for Developers http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/23/john-james-jacoby-whats-new-in-buddypress-1-5/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/23/john-james-jacoby-whats-new-in-buddypress-1-5/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:43:43 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7141 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/23/john-james-jacoby-whats-new-in-buddypress-1-5/feed/ 4 blazestreaming g John James Jacoby: What’s New in BuddyPress 1.5 http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/20/nikolay-bachiyski-unit-testing-will-change-your-life/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/20/nikolay-bachiyski-unit-testing-will-change-your-life/#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:42:04 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7102 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/20/nikolay-bachiyski-unit-testing-will-change-your-life/feed/ 4 blazestreaming g Nikolay Bachiyski: Unit Testing Will Change Your Life http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/20/jane-wells-appearance-is-everything-customizing-your-theme/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/20/jane-wells-appearance-is-everything-customizing-your-theme/#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:40:46 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7119 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/20/jane-wells-appearance-is-everything-customizing-your-theme/feed/ 1 blazestreaming g Jane Wells: Appearance is Everything: Customizing Your Theme http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/20/mark-jaquith-scaling-servers-and-deploys-oh-my/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/20/mark-jaquith-scaling-servers-and-deploys-oh-my/#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:35:14 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7116 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/20/mark-jaquith-scaling-servers-and-deploys-oh-my/feed/ 2 blazestreaming g Mark Jaquith: Scaling, Servers, and Deploys — Oh My! http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/14/matt-mullenweg-state-of-the-word-2011/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/14/matt-mullenweg-state-of-the-word-2011/#comments Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:00:02 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7011 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/14/matt-mullenweg-state-of-the-word-2011/feed/ 25 blazestreaming g Matt Mullenweg: State of the Word 2011 http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/13/wcsf-2011-core-team-bumper-chairs/ http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/13/wcsf-2011-core-team-bumper-chairs/#comments Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:40:42 +0000 blazestreaming http://wordpress.tv/?p=7462 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/13/wcsf-2011-core-team-bumper-chairs/feed/ 0 blazestreaming g WCSF 2011: Core Team Bumper Chairs http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/12/sotw2010/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/12/sotw2010/#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 22:54:44 +0000 Michael Pick http://wordpress.tv/?p=3786 Matt Mullenweg discusses the year past and year ahead for the WordPress community in his keynote presentation at WordCamp San Francisco 2010.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/12/sotw2010/feed/ 34 43.062096 141.354376 43.062096 141.354376 Michael Pick g Matt Mullenweg: State of the Word 2010 Matt Mullenweg discusses the year past and year ahead for the WordPress community in his keynote presentation at WordCamp San Francisco 2010. http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/michael-koenig-intensedebate-sf10/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/michael-koenig-intensedebate-sf10/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 16:10:25 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=4038 Michael Koenig presents an introduction to the IntenseDebate commenting service and how it can enhance your site's discussion in this lightning session. Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/michael-koenig-intensedebate-sf10/feed/ 1 38.520050 -89.983993 38.520050 -89.983993 markel g Michael Koenig: IntenseDebate http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/stephan-spencer-seo-wordpress-sf10/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/stephan-spencer-seo-wordpress-sf10/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 16:00:58 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=4009 Stephan Spencer shows techniques and pointers for optimizing WordPress for search engines in this lightning session.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/stephan-spencer-seo-wordpress-sf10/feed/ 3 38.520050 -89.983993 38.520050 -89.983993 markel g Stephan Spencer: SEO for WordPress http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/raphael-mudge-after-the-deadline-sf10/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/raphael-mudge-after-the-deadline-sf10/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 16:00:43 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=4035 Raphael Mudge gives a quick introduction to After the Deadline, a contextual spell, grammar, and style checker, including how it can help you and how you can use it everywhere on the web. Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/raphael-mudge-after-the-deadline-sf10/feed/ 5 38.520050 -89.983993 38.520050 -89.983993 markel g Raphael Mudge: After the Deadline http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/yoav-farhi-right-to-left-themes-sf10/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/yoav-farhi-right-to-left-themes-sf10/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 15:50:09 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=3999 WordPress theme? Yoav Farhi from Automattic teaches you the basics of right-to-left language support in seven minutes in this lightning session. Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/yoav-farhi-right-to-left-themes-sf10/feed/ 13 markel g Yoav Farhi: Right to Left WordPress http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/beau-lebens-gravatar-profiles-sf10/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/beau-lebens-gravatar-profiles-sf10/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 15:40:48 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=3995 Gravatar Open Profiles in seven minutes from this lightning session from Beau Lebens of Automattic.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/beau-lebens-gravatar-profiles-sf10/feed/ 1 markel g Beau Lebens – Gravatar Open Profiles http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/allan-cole-wordpress-child-themes-sf10/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/allan-cole-wordpress-child-themes-sf10/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 15:40:43 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=4028 Allan Cole gives a brief introduction to child themes and explains their benefits and advantages in this lightning session. Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/allan-cole-wordpress-child-themes-sf10/feed/ 1 markel g Allan Cole: Children Are the Future http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/dan-milward-wordpress-ecommerce-sf10/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/dan-milward-wordpress-ecommerce-sf10/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 15:30:23 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=4020 GetShopped.org gives an introduction to the WP E-Commerce plugin, a look into future updates, and a sneak peek at the new WordPress Shop, running WordPress 3.0 and the newest version of WP E-Commerce. Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/dan-milward-wordpress-ecommerce-sf10/feed/ 2 38.520050 -89.983993 38.520050 -89.983993 markel g Dan Milward: WP E-Commerce http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/rinat-tuhvatshin-wordpress-freedom-kyrgyzstan-sf10/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/rinat-tuhvatshin-wordpress-freedom-kyrgyzstan-sf10/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 15:10:05 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=4015 Kloop tells the incredible story of how WordPress has empowered the people of Kyrgyzstan to write for a worldwide audience about events happening in their country. Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/rinat-tuhvatshin-wordpress-freedom-kyrgyzstan-sf10/feed/ 3 38.520050 -89.983993 38.520050 -89.983993 markel g Rinat Tuhvatshin: WordPress in Kyrgyzstan http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/scott-rosenberg-blogging-history-sf10/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/scott-rosenberg-blogging-history-sf10/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 14:30:29 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=3985 Scott Rosenberg gives a crash course on the history of blogging and describes the unique role that WordPress has had over the years in improving the state of online publishing and in enabling millions of people to publish their thoughts—and the role of open source in the success of WordPress as a platform. Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/scott-rosenberg-blogging-history-sf10/feed/ 2 markel g Scott Rosenberg: WordPress – A Key Link in Blogging’s Evolutionary Chain http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/jane-wells-wordpress-user-experience-sf10/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/jane-wells-wordpress-user-experience-sf10/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 11:20:30 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=3969 Jane Wells uses real examples to demonstrate how to best design your WordPress user experiences to mesh with those of the core software and fulfill the expectations of your users. Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/jane-wells-wordpress-user-experience-sf10/feed/ 0 markel g Jane Wells: User Experience the WordPress Way http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/john-ford-healthy-computing-sf10/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/john-ford-healthy-computing-sf10/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 11:20:01 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=3918 John Ford talks about the relationship we have with our computers and how they influence our lives—and how you can maintain a healthy lifestyle while using our computers daily. Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/john-ford-healthy-computing-sf10/feed/ 1 markel g John Ford: Living with Our Computers… And Keeping it Healthy http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/mitcho-erlewine-abstract-code-sf10/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/mitcho-erlewine-abstract-code-sf10/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 10:50:12 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=3963 Mitcho Erlewine discusses avoiding programming disasters by properly abstracting the code you write and how you can make sure to write code both you and others can reuse in the future. Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/mitcho-erlewine-abstract-code-sf10/feed/ 1 markel g Mitcho Erlewine – Abstract Your Code! http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/karl-fogel-audience-distributed-film-sf10/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/karl-fogel-audience-distributed-film-sf10/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 10:30:19 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=3901 Karl Fogel relays the success story of the film "Sita Sings the Blues" from filmmaker Nina Paley and how it has benefited from the use of open licensing and lessons from the free software movement. Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/karl-fogel-audience-distributed-film-sf10/feed/ 2 markel g Karl Fogel: Bodysurfing the Blogosphere http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/joseph-scott-secure-plugins-sf10/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/joseph-scott-secure-plugins-sf10/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 10:30:00 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=3954 Joseph Scott teaches guidelines, practices, and tips for designing your WordPress plugins to keep a responsible balance between using the power granted to plugin authors and keeping your users' data and installations secure and stable. Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/joseph-scott-secure-plugins-sf10/feed/ 0 markel g Joseph Scott – Writing Secure Plugins http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/daniel-cook-microsoft-office-game-sf10/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/daniel-cook-microsoft-office-game-sf10/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 09:50:57 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=3948 Daniel Cook explains using game mechanics to teach users how to learn features and controls in applications. What the Office Labs team did can provide inspiration for engaging users with your new product or website. Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/daniel-cook-microsoft-office-game-sf10/feed/ 1 markel g Daniel Cook – Why We Turned Microsoft Office into a Game http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/vanessa-fox-wordpress-engagement-seo-sf10/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/vanessa-fox-wordpress-engagement-seo-sf10/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 09:50:14 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=3899 Vanessa Fox presents on the prevalence of search engines as the basis of web browsing, the importance of drawing traffic to your site, and methods for building an audience. Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/vanessa-fox-wordpress-engagement-seo-sf10/feed/ 3 markel g Vanessa Fox: WordPress, Audience Engagement, and SEO http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/niall-kennedy-writing-plugins-for-n00bs/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/niall-kennedy-writing-plugins-for-n00bs/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 09:00:20 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=3924 Niall Kennedy kicks off the developer track of WordCamp San Francisco 2010 and gives an overview of how using and developing plugins can extend and enhance your WordPress-based site. Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/niall-kennedy-writing-plugins-for-n00bs/feed/ 0 markel g Niall Kennedy: Writing Plugins for N00bs http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/scott-berkun-wordpress-future-sf10/ http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/scott-berkun-wordpress-future-sf10/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 09:00:14 +0000 Ryan Markel http://wordpress.tv/?p=3885 Scott Berkun opens the general track of WordCamp San Francisco with a discussion on the evolution of WordPress, its effects on publishing on the Web, and his thoughts on how it will affect the future of writing and publishing. Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2010/05/01/scott-berkun-wordpress-future-sf10/feed/ 1 markel g Scott Berkun: WordPress in 2020 http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/11/douglas-hanna-showcasing-the-showcase-wordcamp-sf-2009/ http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/11/douglas-hanna-showcasing-the-showcase-wordcamp-sf-2009/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:30:52 +0000 Michael Pick http://wordpress.tv/?p=2389 Douglas Hanna presents the WordPress Showcase to the audience of WordCamp San Francisco 2009 Video produced by Dave Curlee and John P, with post-production by Michael Pick.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/11/douglas-hanna-showcasing-the-showcase-wordcamp-sf-2009/feed/ 17 Michael Pick g Douglas Hanna – Showcasing the Showcase http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/11/philip-greenspun-sf/ http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/11/philip-greenspun-sf/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:34:56 +0000 Michael Pick http://wordpress.tv/?p=2385 Philip Greenspun presents on the impact of the web and weblog on written communication in this presentation from WordCamp San Francisco 2009 Video produced by Dave Curlee and John P, with post-production by Michael Pick]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/11/philip-greenspun-sf/feed/ 1 Michael Pick g Philip Greenspun – How the Web and Weblog Changed Writing http://wordpress.tv/2009/07/15/chris-pirillo-communityweb/ http://wordpress.tv/2009/07/15/chris-pirillo-communityweb/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:52:28 +0000 Michael Pick http://wordpress.tv/?p=2076 Dave Curlee and John P. Post production by Dave Curlee.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2009/07/15/chris-pirillo-communityweb/feed/ 6 Michael Pick g Chris Pirillo: WordCamp San Francisco 2009 Hello, everybody; I'm glad you decided to come here and not listen to the Google guy— or one of the Google guys—Google's quite an alluring title there. So, I first met Matt virtually— He really liked the stuff that I was doing years ago, at least, on the Web, and then we changed the site design through something that happened—we had a wonderful web designer for lockergnome.com, which I've been running since 1996, a site that's driven by content, usually stuff related to technology. We had this wonderful, beautiful design, with CSS, and it was just wonderful, and the web designer quit because he wanted to become a male stripper. So this left us in the lurch, and we couldn't do things. He had everything so broken-out, we couldn't move forward. So we had to go with something a lot more utilitarian, and Matt ended up posting on his blog, "What the heck? This is such a step backwards." But there was a reason why, and I couldn't explain the set of circumstances, so that's how I came to know Matt; I wasn't hooked into WordPress at that point in time, but to give any perspective, I was one of the first registered business users of Movable Type, years and years and years and years ago. And I switched over to using WordPress—well, WordPress MU, or WPMU—pretty much at its first public release, and also have been using WordPress for my personal blog for quite a while. I am nothing more than just a geek, that's it— hey, J—he's someone I would consider part of my community, because I know him by his first name. And that's what community is all about, really: getting to know people. Because the Internet is not so much a series of cables and wires so much as it is a connection between people. Without people, the Internet would be nothing. It would even exist. I still remember the first time I sat down in front of a computer. This is—well, no, not the first time; I can't remember that time—the first time I sat down in front of a computer to email somebody who was sitting no further than this far away from me in a computer lab back in 1992. And I emailed him something, and I just knew—that moment—my life was forever changed. And it was true. That was a defining moment of my life; I was like, "this is it! I must do this for the rest of my life!" I don't know why, but it thrills me every day to wake up and check my email, despite the amount of spam that I get; I still love email. Because it's the connection that I make with people from all around the world. It still amazes me to this day; it's a miracle. And obviously, I don't need to proselytize you; you know that. But if you just sit there and think about it: how powerful that is... community is already inside you. Now I'm going to try to remember what it was like to be back in high school in advanced math—I'm not the mathematician, not a scientist; I'm an English major, or was; my degree is in English education, which means I'm only qualified to teach nouns and verbs, everything I do now is just out of passion; I was very lucky— but there's this idea of a Venn diagram. Are you familiar with the Venn diagram? OK, essentially—I'm Italian, so I can use my arms while I'm talking— It's like, you've got these circles. And in-between, they kind of cross over. Right? And in the middle, where that cross over is like this little thing, can you imagine that? The Venn diagram? I like coffee. And I also live in Seattle. And in the middle, I like coffee and I live in Seattle. And there are other people who also like coffee and live in Seattle. And since I don't have three arms, I can't do a third one—that'd be kind of crazy, arm juggling—but I also use Mac OS X. Now, in the middle of that Venn diagram— I use Mac OS X, I drink coffee, and I live in Seattle—how many other people do as well? Well, not everybody. Did someone say everybody? In a perfect world, sure. But we're not living in that perfect world. That Venn diagram, where that point at which everything kind of crosses over— I have all these interests; I have these things about me; this is who I am. OK? I don't let somebody else define me. That's controlling. That's bad behavior. I am this person. I'm a walking Venn diagram. We all are. We're not unidimensional. We're multifaceted. Every one of us, despite what you think about yourself, you are. Many things about you. And you carry these things about you wherever you go. That is community. It's inside you. And that is why you can go from one Web site to another to another to another to another, and it's the experience that it helps you have. But it's already inside you. Because if it doesn't exist inside you, no Web site, no Web service, nothing is ever going to change that. I have a thing against PR and marketing people. It's not that I don't like them, it's just they don't always get it. And I hear the word "community" thrown about; every so often, I'll get pitched, "We've got a business where we're going after the real estate vertical, and we're going create a viral community." I do not ever want to be a part of anything "viral" in a community. That's me. It may be a part of your Venn diagram, great. Nothing against viruses, or communities, really. But when you have an idea that you're going to create something from scratch, and it's just going to happen, it doesn't work that way. Now, there's a community in here—there's a variety of communities in here, intersecting—I see a lot of Apple notebooks; How many Apple notebooks? Just raise your hand. I mean, I can see, but there's quite a few; and a few PC users as well. I'm not going to—yeah, raise your notebooks— I don't want to pick on the Vista users; I've kind of beat that dead horse. That's a community, right? It's a community that's just there. You're probably passionate about it, as Apple users tend to be—sometimes a little too passionate— but you care a lot about the product, potentially. Maybe you have an iPhone, maybe you have other Apple products, you become an evangelist without even realizing that you're an evangelist because you love the product. Maybe you don't love the product, but you're using it anyway because everyone else is. Is it the company, or is it the community? Well, it's a little of both. But the company has created something that the "community" wants. I didn't like the iPhone when Apple first released it. I—really, in fact, I—have eaten a lot of crow for posting 20 reasons why I wasn't going to use the iPhone. And then a month later—you know what did it for me? The weather app. It freaked me out. I was like, "it can't be this usable." "I've been using mobile devices for so long." "It's not this usable." It was such a shift in thinking. I actually cared about a mobile device for the first time in my life. After saying "no, it's not going to happen." But it did. And I'm not the only one who likes the iPhone, who likes Mac OS X, who thinks it's a wonderful choice for consumers. But it's not the company that's telling me, it's feeling like I identify with my computer. Like I feel for technology. I grew up when PCs—I used to make fun of people like me. Of course, people make fun of people like me all the time, it's not going to stop them. But it's not about the company that creates the product, so much as it is the culture I see you've got an Apple notebook, you've got an Apple— I can connect; we can connect—we can talk about our favorite apps, an iPhone; we can talk about our favorite apps; it's the culture. Forget the company. I've said this about Macworld, too, with Apple dropping out; I don't think it's as big a deal as people have made it out to be. Because Macworld is more about the community than it is the company. That is my opinion. Back in the day—way back in the day—I may not look it, but I am 35 years old, been online, as I said, since 1992. That was before the Web. Hard to believe. I would connect with other people using newsgroups and BBS's. I fingered people; I fingered Coke machines; I subscribed to Scott Yanoff's list of things to do on the "Internet", it was a mail—it was a piece of text—that told you what you could do online! And it was the definitive resource of what you could do online. I'm sorry; not to make some of you feel young. (Maybe I am.) But you would only be able to go to certain places to communicate. You had to go there; if I wanted to talk about The Simpsons; if I wanted to talk about "Weird Al" Yankovic; if I wanted to—you know—share my ASCII art; if I wanted to do one thing, then I would have to go there, because that was the only place that existed for that affinity. For sharing information. And it's not that way anymore. It's not. And that's a good thing. Instead of community existing in just one little pocket, it's everywhere. It's OK to be everywhere, but just keep that in mind. Now, people who—you know—aren't really... exploratory, online—I mean, they see the Internet, they can check their email, maybe they get on Facebook, and that's about it. Maybe some shopping or whatever. They see the Internet as potentially just what Facebook gives them. But—obviously—that's not the way it is. And it's not going to be that way forever. Of course, I'm not going to go into the political debates on identification and owning—who owns your identity, who owns your content; this is not a political discussion. But just keep in mind that as the Internet expands, and you're that walking Venn diagram, hopefully at some point those two things will come together. Right now, we're still trapped inside of somebody else's idea of what an experience should be for you. It always made me laugh when I'd see a portal that said, "My Such-and-Such." I'm like, "that's not my anything, it's just your my something." Being distributed, though, it's certainly reaching its frustrations. I'm trying to think of how better to explain this; Instant messaging. You've got Windows Live (or MSN), you've got Yahoo!, ICQ, AOL, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk or Jabber; you've got all of these different protocols, and they're all competing with one another. Do you bucket your friends that way? "I'm sorry; I can't talk to you; you're not on AOL." It's unintuitive. That's why I like using Adium on Mac OS X; some people on Windows may use Digsby— [gagging noise] I'm sorry; I can't even say the word. It's a unified instant messenger that brings them all together into one. And it's free. But it's the idea of basically letting the Internet come— and the experiences on the Internet come—on your terms, rather than on somebody else's terms. We're getting there, and with community, it falls very much into that same hole. This is the one that always trips me up. And I hope everybody can read the slides; are you guys good in the back? OK. It kills me when I'm either asked a question or I hear someone saying, "Well, I put up a blog, and nobody came!" Duh! "I set up a forum, and no one participated!" Duh! The tools are ubiquitous. They're everywhere. A blog is just a tool. And if you think a blog is a community, then you too are a tool. [applause] Going back to the PR/marketing thing there. It just—I cringe, but at the same time, I'm just like, "Go ahead, do your thing, man. Do it, because I know what's going to happen." Community exists in one place: and that's here. In your heart. That's your Venn diagram. Your heart. Because without heart, what is community? Without passion, without connections, without a feeling of belonging, what is it? Well, it's not community; at least, not how I would define it, or how I would care to define it. Maybe that's idealistic of me, and you know what? I'm OK with that being idealistic of me. Because to me, you can't build this. It's either there, or it's not. And you know you've got a vibrant community when it takes care of its own, instead of eating its own. To take care of, to empathize, to connect. To build. To collaborate. To share. To listen, to talk. It all comes from here. And without this, it is just a set of tools. Anybody can go out right now and set up a Web site, with different features: online chat, forums, blogs, upload photos, videos; you name it. There's a lot of tools out there. Anybody; which means if you've got an idea, "Well, I'd like to create a blog about coffee," well, the chances of someone else having done that before are pretty strong. Pretty strong. Right? Not strong coffee— well, hopefully; I like strong coffee— but it's not the topic; it's not the idea that makes it valuable. It never is. Because there are a lot of— well, as Philip was just referring to; he's had photo.net up for a while— there's a lot of photography forums online. A lot. Where do you go? Do you go anywhere, if that's something you care about? They're everywhere. Community is everywhere. And sometimes, the same people exist in a variety of the same types of communities. Sometimes, people only exist in one community, or another, or they go after this one because everyone else is there; all their friends are there; therefore, they need to be there. So, in a way, it is—the tools are a commodity. But each one of you is not. Even if you are an identical twin. Or triplet. Or octuplet. You're still unique. You still have your own set of morals, ideals, beliefs; you have your own heart. And you take that with you wherever you go. You are the asset to the community, not the other way around. It has kind of been my experience that when people come and ask, "Well, how do I control the community? How do I stop them from saying something about me that I don't like?" And the answer is: you can't. And I hope we all know that. Do we all know that? One of the reasons why I started out this particular presentation explaining how I met Matt—he said something that was absolutely accurate: our stuff sucked. And in fact, I would go so far as to say that our stuff still sucks. I'm not a designer, nor am I a developer. But I've got to use the tools at my disposal to make something happen. I didn't tell him to take his post down; I emailed him; I said "Yeah; you're right." And then I met him in Seattle—I think I bought him a beer, too— this was before I was using WordPress. You can't control the message—but you can guide it. Some people have asked, "Well, how do you go about hiring community leaders? Managers? People who come in and take care of your stuff?" Well, you can; you can go on Craigslist, or LinkedIn, look over a few resumes: community, experience, blah blah blah, but I've always discovered that the best community leaders come out of the community, rather than dropped in, like a food shipment. "Oooh, it's a foreign thing. What is that? Oh, sustenance." If you cultivate, if you feed, if you water it, it's like a plant; it'll grow. And it'll sprout branches, and out of the branches, leaves, and grow. And there may be some dry seasons, certainly. But the stronger branches are going to come out of that community. The pillars of your community. The louder voices. You may not always agree with them, but if you empower your community, if you guide your community, if you take it upon yourself to become someone inside a community, you'll lead it before you are ever given the title. That's organic. I have more in common with a guy who lives in Ireland than I do my next-door neighbor. When I was growing up, I would never have imagined that I could press a button on my computer and within—within not even seconds, talk to someone on the other side of the world, about something that we both cared about, that we were both passionate about, that we made a connection over. And I didn't have to pay anything to connect to him. I don't really use–I mean, I use Skype, but I'd much rather with group chat, in an ad-hoc construct would rather use something called Ventrilo, which is used a lot by gamers, and an open source equivalent would be called Mumble; low-latency, high-quality audio group chat, ad-hoc. So much better than Skype. But I can connect with anybody. no matter where they are, versus growing up. Now in the seventh grade, my dad saw this little segment on CNN where Topps—you know, the people who make baseball cards— were starting to print out these things called Garbage Pail Kids. So he brought three wax packs home— that's what they used to call them, because they were made with wax; they'd seal them with wax— it's all plastic now. Little bubble gum in there that tasted like cement. And he brought home this package—I've got two younger brothers— and he opened this packet of little stickers, and it was like, "Oh, this is great." And I started collecting Garbage Pail Kids. Do you guys remember Garbage Pail Kids? OK. I know some of you don't; you're Googling it right now. So in the seventh grade, collecting something was a pain in the neck. I didn't know who else liked Garbage Pail Kids. It was like, "Are there any kids in my neighborhood who do? You do; you don't. You do; you don't. What do you have? What can I trade? I need this one; I need to find that one." I need to get more Garbage Pail Kids. But I need to find where they are, so either I have to call around town to gas stations: "Do you have Garbage Pail Kids?" I'm sorry; this was like seventh grade. [higher voice] "Do you have Garbage Pail Kids?" [normal voice] "What?" …was always the answer. "Huh?" Or, I'd have to drive around town, because I had my hot spots, and I couldn't drive; I was in the seventh grade, so I had to convince my parents, "Please, can we go? There's a new edition out. I need to complete the collection." Of course, I wasn't that annoying. Or maybe I was. I'm romanticizing the past at this point. It was difficult to get information; it was difficult to share affinities. Nowadays, because, yes, Topps has got what they call a new series— I still collect Garbage Pail Kids; I've got 'em all; bound; it's just wonderful to see— now, I just go to Ebay, and I click a button, because someone's selling the whole series. All right. It's no longer fun. But now, I can talk with other people who are discussing the direction and the art— yeah; there's an art to it— and connect with them. And I couldn't do that growing up, and there's some of you who are a lot younger than me, who don't remember what it's like to live that way. And of course, there are some of you who are older than me, who can tell—"I remember the first time; we had rotary dial, and we liked it." I used to have nightmares about rotary dial. [laughter] Do you? I'm serious. OK; rotary dial was on a phone. You'd pick it up; it would be corded, this little curly— like a pigtail—and you would have to stick your finger in a hole. And move it—you would rotate it in a clockwise direction. And you would get all the way through the seventh digit, and you'd miss it by a number. "Aw, $&#@." And you'd have to hang it up, you'd have to pick it up, and you'd—I still have nightmares about that. I'm going to go to my grave having nightmares about rotary dial. But now I can share those experiences with anybody from around the world. I don't even have to pay for a phone call to connect with someone. I can do it online. Lickety-split. No longer just have to communicate with someone down the street. I want to reiterate this point. I really do. The voices, the strong voices are— it's in them. It's in you, to be a strong voice, if you have something to say. Of course, if you're just regurgitating what somebody else is saying, well, you don't really have a lot to say, you just have a lot to say about what someone else is saying. That's not really leadership so much as it is follower... ship. Worship. If you have a voice, use it. Exercise it. Make those connections. And before you know it, you will be a leader, whether you know it or not. When you get an email or a direct message or a comment from somebody that you never would know, or maybe someone walks up to you at a conference, says, "Oh my, I listen to your podcast, I was—you know—I had no idea what was going on with something, and you helped me so much." You just became a leader. And maybe it's a mutual admiration society, where the person who's connecting with you, you didn't realize, "Oh, dude, I read your stuff all the time!" "Really? I read your stuff all the time. Let's be pen pals." OK; that kind of doesn't really exist anymore, but you made this connection you didn't realize; that you both liked each other's stuff. Have you had this experience before? OK. Good. That comes out of your voice. This one's a tough one for people to wrap their heads around. And I'm going to say it: community is the antithesis of ego. Community is inside you, but it's not about you. This is one of the reasons why a blog, which is very egocentric, or can be, let's set aside the idea of a group blog, a personal blog. In fact, the funniest remark I ever received, and I think it was a comment in my blog: someone was accusing me of being too egotistical in my personal blog. And I wasn't sure how to take that. I was like, "Well, then I guess I've succeeded." "Yay me!" That's the easiest way, by the way, if you ever want to deflate someone who's just fired off something nasty to you; maybe they spent a good amount of time, four or five paragraphs in the email; reply, and just wink. You know: semicolon, paren. And then hit send. That's it. And they'll email back and write twice as much. And you don't have to respond to that point; you've made your point. I heard you. OK. Not worth your time. I learned that lesson years ago. When I first started publishing Lockergnome— this is back in, I think I'd been doing it for a year, so this is about 1997— I got an email from someone doing just this, and he was ripping me apart. I mean, I put my heart and soul into what I do. Everything I do, my heart and soul is there. So when he just ripped me apart, I took it personally. My roommate walks into the room. I had a roommate at the time. He's throwing popcorn into his mouth, as he was prone to do. He said, "What's wrong?" I said, "Ah, this guy just ripped me apart, because I wrote this one thing and he was offended." And he kind of nods his head and says, "Uh-huh." He said, "How many people are you distributing to now?" I said, "I don't know"—at that point—"30,000 or something." You know where I'm going with this. He says, "And how many people complained?" I said, "One." He said, "Then shut the #*%$ up! What are you worried about? He had a bad day! One guy, out of 30,000 people, complains! He doesn't know you! He doesn't know who you are." I was like, "Yeah; I guess you're right." So as much as I would connect with people inside of my community, I realize it wasn't always about me at that point. It was about their experiences— with me. The strongest voices in a community are devoid of ego. Which isn't to say that you don't know who they are, or what they like, or where else you can find them online. It's just that the first thing on their mind isn't themselves. That's a tough one to get around, especially with Twitter being very egocentric; with blogging being egocentric. Just keep in mind that community is not. And everywhere you go, you're bringing community with you. I'm not sure how much time we have left; I can't read that. I'm blind. Thank you. I'm out? Oh, zero. Thank you. http://wordpress.tv/2009/07/08/john-lilly-mozilla/ http://wordpress.tv/2009/07/08/john-lilly-mozilla/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:11:04 +0000 Michael Pick http://wordpress.tv/?p=2062 John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, presents at WordCamp San Francisco 2009 on Open Source, lessons learned from Mozilla, and the role of community. Video by Dave Curlee and John P , with post-production by Michael Pick]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2009/07/08/john-lilly-mozilla/feed/ 18 Michael Pick g john-lilly-master-H.264 800Kbps http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/26/tim-ferriss-blogging-without-killing-yourself-wordcamp-san-francisco-2009/ http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/26/tim-ferriss-blogging-without-killing-yourself-wordcamp-san-francisco-2009/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:08:52 +0000 Michael Pick http://wordpress.tv/?p=1992 Bestselling author Timothy Ferriss delivers his presentation on effective blogging at WordCamp San Francisco 2009]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/26/tim-ferriss-blogging-without-killing-yourself-wordcamp-san-francisco-2009/feed/ 10 Michael Pick g tim-ferriss-web All right; good morning, everyone. I am so surprisingly nervous, it is unbelievable. So I'll start with a story, and then we'll jump into the presentation. So WordPress: I've been on WordPress for three years, from the very very beginning, and I thought it would be nice to explain how I came to know Matt. It was actually a mutual introduction through MJ Kim, who is a friend of ours, and I wanted to interview Matt for my blog. I was very, very anxious and nervous about trying to reach out to Matt. "The 25 Most Influential People on the Web," so forth and so on; and I put it off, I put if off, I put it off; and then finally, one day at lunch, I was like, "You know what? I'm just going to call him." So I called him, and he answered, and I was like, "Hi; my name's Tim Ferriss;" and I went and I went and I went, and I finished, and then he chuckled, like he does, and said very calmly like Yoda, "That is the longest self-introduction I've ever heard in my life." So despite those inauspicious beginnings, we've had a lot of fun. So the title of this talk was "Scalable Blogging Behaviors," which is really, really boring. So the content is the same, but I'm going to call it: "How to Blog Without Killing Yourself." And I'll explain some of the best practices when I write, research, track my blog, and also point out some of the things that I find fun and why I do all of this. So the first question that I get a lot: "Why do I blog?" Why would I blog? It's not for income generation, because there are much faster ways to generate income. So why do I blog? So if you look here, this is one of my posts; it's a very popular post called "Total Immersion;" how I learned to swim after decades of phobia about swimming. And then on the right-hand side, you'll see this. I posted this during the Olympics, when everyone was watching of course to see if the Spinks medal record would be broken, and on the right-hand side, this is Ron Turner who pops up (he's the USA National Team coach), offering advice, and there was a former Olympian, and a silver medalist, at the Olympics, in a separate post who popped up to offer advice, and the bigger question is, "Why do I do anything?" And this is the most important question that you can answer. And the rather new-age answer that I came up with, because I get asked a lot, "What do you want in life? What do you want?" It's a very broad question. But in general, it is to love, be loved, and never stop learning, and that sounds very fufu-wawa; let's hold hands and dance around, but it translates into very important decisions. So another way to look at that would be that I use my blog for access to people and resources. So income isn't your only currency. You have authority, you have audience, you have the right audience, not just a large audience. So in this case, it is the perfect laboratory for not only learning, learning from my readers, but also sharing and that translates into my broader goals. So that is why I blog. And there's indirect and direct income from a blog. I'm not going to get into monetization; we can talk about that in the Q&A; but most of the benefit that I get is indirect. It's from meeting people via the blog. So the overarching principle in my life, and also when I blog, is that "whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." So there are a lot of rules. There are many, many rules that you will feel obligated to follow in blogging. When I was just getting started, I was told that I had to put up six posts before lunch, and you might expect that that doesn't jibe very well with my philosophy in general. And as it turns out, posting six times a day, posting more, bringing more audience, posting times, different old wives' tales that have been passed along, in the relative short time span that we've all been sharing these practices, really don't withstand scrutiny and testing in most cases. I'll stop pointing at the screen now, I think. All right. So, let's talk about frequency and tools. So what you're looking at here is a screen shot from CrazyEgg. CrazyEgg.com, which I use for looking at heatmaps, and more specifically click patterns on my blog. And I will get to frequency, but I want to talk about what you're looking at first. So that I can do—this is a Confetti view— and I'll set it to a test for 5,000 clicks— and I'll do this repeatedly every time I make a homepage design change; I will run a test like this, and you just slap in one or two lines of JavaScript and it will track it automatically. And you can see here that I'm looking at my top 15 referrers, which are my largest 15 sources of traffic, and then I can select or deselect them to see where people are clicking. And you learn some very interesting things. So for example, if people come through google.com, which is not highlighted right now, they click on the most popular of all time, on this upper-right-hand side. And this is my most valuable real estate, I've realized. Over and over again; it's almost like a reverse Google pattern: on Google, if you look at the click patterns, it seems to be generally an "F"; on my blog, it's completely the opposite, because the sidebar's on the right-hand side. So Americans and—your guys' traffic will generate clicks on the most popular of all time. Germans will click on "Tim's Favorites". Americans don't care at all about my favorites. And I'll get into more details here, but in addition to CrazyEgg, I really just use Google Analytics. I don't get too fancy, because it is true that what you measure gets managed, but it's also true that you should only measure the things that matter. And Google can often send people down ratholes, making the analytics, at least—web site optimizers— much, much better, will send people down many different decision trees spending a lot of time on things that don't necessarily have a huge impact. Frequency: So, I've tested everything. Everything that I'm going to share with you today I have come to realize through data. The best times for my particular blog are 7 a.m. (Pacific Standard), 6 p.m. (Eastern Standard), and those times also map to submissions to digg.com, not that that is necessarily up to me. But those, historically, are the best times. And in terms of days, I get the best response— and best response meaning comments, quality of comments, trackbacks, and so forth— on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, which was very unexpected. So posting—if I post on a Friday night, I get a very, very strong response on Saturdays. So if I have an important post, something that I really want to allow to germinate and spread across the Interwebs, then I'll pick one of those three days. And I tend to post once or twice a week. I've done that since the very beginning, and while it's easy to say, "Well, your blog is successful because you had a bestselling book," the fact of the matter is that the blog has helped the book far more than the book has helped the blog. All right. So let's move on. So these are some of my random findings. And I'm a bit of a compulsive tester, so hopefully, you'll find some questions, some little tidbit of value here, even though everyone here probably knows more about WordPress than I do. So a few things that I like to point out here: Changing the "Categories" label to "Topics" in the bottom-right dramatically improved click activity and the number of average page views per-visit. So the wording is very important. Do not underestimate the value of copy. So just changing the label from "Categories" to "Topics" dramatically improved the click density in that area, which is very important to me. All of these items that you see on the right-hand side are designed to pull people who would be a one-time visitor deeper into the site. If you look at the "Most Popular" tabs on the right-hand side, which I had developed by a college student at the time, who did the entire site, and some people have asked me, "How much did your site cost?" My first blog cost nothing, because I set it up myself, and the first iteration cost, I think, $500, and this one was about $1200. So to give you an idea. It doesn't have to cost that much, but I was in a rush. Now, I have the current hits—this is very important—I have the current hits first; that is the default display; because that changes every 30 days by default. It's a running 30-day calendar. What that means is it's almost impossible for— it is impossible for those posts to stay the same over time. If it's all-time, as the default display is, as a lot of sites do, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You're basically reinforcing clicking on those posts, and they remain the best forever. Which is not what I want. Because that is one of the tools that I use. I also use the stats program in WordPress itself. If you look above the "Most Popular", those straight lines, those straight red lines indicate things that have been omitted. So I used to have my Twitter status in the top-right hand side of my blog, and then I realized I was facilitating a mass exodus from my blog, particularly of first-time users. And this is a very, very—depending on your goals— but for me, I want to build a very high-quality readership based on shared interests and so forth. That is a very expensive habit, because it is extremely costly, in time or energy, resources, to get good first-time visitors. You don't want them to leave right away. So I have for the time being removed that and put it down here. You'll see up in the top-right-hand side these 7 reasons to subscribe, so that will take you to 7 reasons to subscribe to my RSS feed. Now, there are considerations that you should take into consideration ("allow me to introduce myself"), and among them is if you are advertising, that is, if you have advertising on your site, it may not make sense for you to push people from your blog to your RSS feed, because generally, your CPM rates will be much higher on your blog. So you're basically taking someone from looking at a Mercedes and moving them to buying a Yugo. And you don't want to do that, obviously, if you're trying to monetize your blog. So RSS, I find, is for me increasingly less and less relevant, particularly as microblogging tools like Twitter become more and more prevalent. If you look to the left, there's a few things I want to point out: "Gear". If you go to the "Gear" section on my site— just go to http://fourhourblog.com, that's the short URL— then if you click on "Gear", there's pretty much nothing there. It's a holding spot. So I put up the "Gear" on the navigation bar to see—to gauge the interest level. And at some point, perhaps, in the future, it will be full of various goods for sale and so forth, but I wanted to test at least the initial conversion from that term to click-through, and it's very, very high. "Resources" is probably number two, "Forum" is number three. Above the "On the Shortness of Life", that red bar, you'll notice there's something missing. The date is missing. Now why is the date missing? Because this is an older post, and new visitors are biased for new material and against old material, generally speaking. So, if you're on the home page of the blog, the dates are displayed. If you come through a permalink, or a link from another site, to an old post, the date is not displayed at the top but at the very bottom. All right? And this has dramatically improved the time on the site per visitor. And last, I want to point out this particular post, "On the Shortness of Life: An Introduction to Seneca", it's a stoic philosophy, which I think is perfect for analytical thinkers and entrepreneurs in general, the stoic school of thought, this post, if you print it out, is 15 pages long. It's 15 pages long, and it was hugely popular. So in terms of length and all these conventions, learn to test them. I have broken every single one of them, expecting to fail, and then they do well, and I've followed all the rules, and had posts that are terribly unsuccessful. One of the things that I do, however, with a post like this, and with many longer posts, is I will put at the very top of the post, in bold, "Total Read Time: 5 Minutes." 12 minutes. 15 minutes. In this case, because it was so long, I had "Total Read Time:", and then in parentheses "Bolded Parts: 3 Minutes." So it's 15 pages if you read the whole thing. I bolded about a sentence per three or four paragraphs, so total read time, bolded parts, let's just say three to five minutes, and then the total read time: 45 minutes, an hour, whatever it was. And I'm giving people very low resistance entry points to complex or long material. So this is a very, very successful post that continues to be a very, very successful post. So you can see I have the current hits: it's number three. And it's continued to do very well. So test it all. Reading time, as a side note, I'm taking 250 words per minute as the average reading speed. Americans in general are 150 to 300 words per minute; a page is about 350 words, generally speaking. All right. So writing: how I research. You'll see here I have Twitter, and then I have something called Slinkset on the right-hand side. This would be an example of analytical research. Slinkset.com, here in the middle, allows you to create your personal Digg in about 20 seconds. And people can submit, and vote up or down, various suggestions. So yesterday, as I was finishing things up and trying to determine what to include and what not to include, because we have limited time today, I threw out a tweet you see here. "What would you like to know about how I blog? Please tell me here and vote." I threw it up, and then had all of these various submissions voted up, voted down; and so you can see, "What is your ultimate goal of blogging?" Sell more books? Nah. Side effect; not really my goal. More speaking opportunities? That would be an example of indirect income. It's nice, but I don't need it. Just enjoy writing? Sometimes, sometimes it makes me want to cry into my pillow. Other monetization strategies? Not really. Blog readers are a good experiment? Guinea pigs, yes, absolutely. So here we go. Going down the process here. Twitter—as full disclosure, I'm an investor in Twitter—I use Twitter— I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it, because we're talking about blogging— but it is, I consider, a microblogging platform. I use it for polling, I use it for quick research, and then sharing that back with my Twitter followers, if there's a consensus, and really as a personal online diary of sorts. I track the things that I come across that I would then like to go back and revisit. It's fun to look at on iCal, for example, which you can synchronize. So there you have it. And then Evernote: this is a different type of research. If I'm researching anything that I want to know more about, that I'm having problems with, I will assume there's probably at least one other person on the planet who's doing the same thing or wants to do the same thing. And I will clip the entire page to Evernote, so you press one button, and it scrapes all the text and saves it in something called Evernote, which is which is basically your external brain, for all intents and purposes. You can take photos of things and it will recognize text, as well as bring searchable. And I'll just bold those pieces, and I will at any given time bold links and certain bolded excerpts as drafts. I have have about 45 drafts right now, I would say only 5 to 10 of those will ever be— 5 to 10 percent of those will ever be published. So: writing. How I write. Some of you may recognize this guy here. Tucker Max is one of the most offensive human beings on the planet. And I mean that as a compliment to him; he would take it as a compliment. At South By Southwest in 2007 I went to a panel called "From Blog to Book". His book's a New York Times bestseller, it has been for ages, he did it entirely on his own. And I went up to him, to try to politely ask a question at the end, and he said, "Who the fuck are you?" And it had a rough start, but ended up actually having a very interesting conversation later over drinks, and he said, "I'm not a good," he said, "The important thing is not being a good writer." He's very smart—went to law school—"The important thing is not being a good writer, it is having a voice. That is why my writing is popular." Which is really communicating your personality to the written word. This took me a long time to get comfortable with. I actually threw out the first four chapters I wrote for "The Four-Hour Work Week". Because it started with sort of an academician, Princetonian (I went to Princeton), pomposity, for lack of a better word, but really pretty awful. And then I went to the opposite end and it was Three Stooges slapstick, and then finally ended up somewhere in the middle, which is my natural tone. So a few things: passion beats polling and focus groups. Mark Cuban—some of you may be familiar with, billionaire, blogger, among other things— has said, "Don't write what your readers tell you to write about, write about what you're passionate about." And what I've noticed is that whenever I poll, "Would you like me to write about this, this, this, this, or this," or, "What would you like me to write about?", generally speaking, it does very poorly. I think that people most often are quite bad at predicting what they would like. I could go into a lot of psychology, but I'll spare you. Whenever I'm really ecstatic about something, really interested in something, really sad about something, really upset about something, it always does well. It always does well. Po Bronson, who has written many different books: "What Should I Do with My Life?" He's written a number of bestsellers, a very, very good writer, and he said to me once, "When you're blocked, when you don't know what to write about, write about what makes you angry." Caveat: one thing I never do on my blog is attack other people. Ever. There's enough negativity out there. I view it as a shortcut and a very cheap way to get short-term traffic and to attract readers that you don't want. So I don't attack people, but you can write about the problem and not the person. And this is very, very effective. A few things: biorhythms: measure output. I do my best writing from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., which explains why I was stumbling around like a drunkard earlier. I was up late. That's for synthesis; I can gather notes throughout the day, but for any type of synthesis I do my best work during that period of time. Find your best writing or synthesis period. My process is: I put on, most recently, James Bond, mute it, put on music, generally, Federico Arbele, if anyone's interested in Argentine music, and I'll have a glass of wine, one (it goes downhill from there). One glass of wine, and yerba maté, which is a tea that has three times the stimulants in it. Caffeine, theobromine, and theophylline. So you get a nice even-keeled experience. For important posts, edit it by hand. All right. For my most important posts, I will do a draft, whether that's in WordPress or elsewhere, print it out, and edit by hand. The goal should be to remove 20 percent—10 to 20 percent of the post every time you do a revision or edit. So for important posts, edit by hand. And then the last is ignore SEO for the first draft. (Search Engine Optimization.) When you start off in your mind with the objective of optimizing something for search, it ends up reading like something optimized for search. So you're writing a post on steak and you have steak mentioned 15 times in the first paragraph and bolded. It is awful. So write your post, and then if you want to go to, let's say, Google Keyword tool and you say, "Well, I could use 'steak house', I could use 'steak', I could use 'steak shop', I could use 'medium rare', who knows," then you can search for synonyms, sort by average monthly volume, and then you can make your choice. What I said was, you can go to Google Keyword tools, search by average monthly volume; I think it's three columns from the left; and that will generally give you an indication. It's not a comprehensive indication, but it's a good indication. Also, last but not least, one thing I do is I try to make sure—this right example's not a good example— I try to make sure that my posts can really only be described one way. So what I used to do on occasion is have two topics in one post. Bad idea. You're splitting up your anchor text. In other words, when you want people to link to you, if they link to my post on steak with how to cook steak, and everyone does that, that is generally a good thing for me. If, on the other hand, it's scattered, and there are multiple topics, you don't get the same type of impact although Matt can talk much more about this than I can. So I could be totally off, but that's my experience. Video and photos, quickly. There is no correlation to the amount of time that you will spend on a video and the results. I've spent so much time; I got a videographer, and we went to Scharffen Berger, and did a five-part series on tasting chocolate, and it did OK, it didn't do poorly. And then I shot this: this is one minute, a one-take wonder, in my kitchen with my younger brother. I was like, "Dude, help me out. Just use my digital camera and take a video." This is of me peeling hard-boiled eggs without peeling them. I'm not going to play it right now. This has almost 2-and-a-half million views. So short is good when it comes to video. Now I very rarely do standalone video posts. Generally, what I will do is have some type of bonus, value-add in the text. Why? Because nothing travels in my opinion faster than text. Text sticks around. And text gets indexed. So, I almost always have— and at the very least, this is what I talk about in this video. Because having someone come to my site is more valuable for me than someone going to YouTube and viewing the video. On the right-hand side, you see this photograph? It's a really cool photograph. Passport, all these different items; so this is another post that did quite well: "How to Be Jason Bourne: Multiple Passports, Swiss Banking, and Crossing Borders." This post received—just to give you an indication— more than 80,000 visits via StumbleUpon. 24,000; 25,000 in the first 24 hours. StumbleUpon in my opinion is arguably the cheapest source of traffic if you purchase their advertising, which I've experimented with. It works extremely well. I don't do much of that, but it provides a very slow trickle IV of high-quality traffic. So this post on the left: Digg front page, did very well. And that has a value, maybe 40,000 or 50,000 views. Or rather, unique visitors in the same period of time. And it continues to do well, but it serves a different purpose. This is more of an evergreen topic. One thing I don't do is focus on topical items much. I don't chase the news. That is a tiresome, thankess job. And it's not fun to do. It has to be fun, or your readers will not have fun. If you're not having fun, it will come across very clearly in what you write. The picture here: how did I find it? This is a trick that I'm sure some of you already use, but a lot of you probably don't. You go do Flickr, you click on Advanced Search, you go to Creative Commons-only, and then you sort by most interesting. You find awesome, awesome, awesome stuff. So comments: ah, comments. How do we deal with comments? So the living room method: You can see, I get a fair number of comments on many of my posts. This one has almost 2,000 comments. Which is a lot… for me to go through. So I do read my comments, because my point—again, with the blog—partially is to learn as much as possible, and there are some gems hiding. I have a zero tolerance policy. A very close to zero tolerance policy with any type of abuse, any type of snarkiness, I just delete those. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than getting a comment that's like, "You are the white horseman to our children, ahh!" And it's like a three-page diatribe, and I just go "ooooh, he must have spent days on that, delete!" There's enough negativity in the world; you have no obligation to put it on your blog. So I view my blog like my house. My living room. I'm inviting these people into my home. If you come to my cocktail party, and you're like, "You son of a bitch! I'm gonna—gah!" You're out of my house. And you're not invited back. That is poor etiquette. So with the comments, generally, I can scan very quickly, and I can tell if it's spam, I'm fairly good at that, it gets harder and harder, but Akismet catches almost all of it, and it's not that hard. I probably spend about 20 minutes a day on comments. And I'll save good comments in Evernote or another document, because one of my objectives with readership is to have at least 10 percent of my comments on any given post to be suitable as posts in their own right. I want that quality of post. And that is very, very, very critical to me. I try to encourage the proper behavior by having comment rules, which you can see here. This is both at the top of the comments and at the bottom. I really don't want there to be any ambiguity. So this is borrowed largely—the first part—from Brian Oberkirch: "Remember what Fonzie was like? Cool. That's how we're gonna be—cool. Critical is fine, but if you're rude, we'll delete your stuff." And then there's a bolded part here, which is a recent pet peeve of mine that has been making me nuts. "Please do not put your URL in the comment text and please use your PERSONAL name or initials and not your business name, as the latter comes off like spam. Have fun, and thanks for adding to the conversation." So if it's like "Free Kiteboarding Tips," and then it's John, it's like, "Please just put John in. I know what you're trying to do." Even with the nofollow's, I understand what you're trying to do. It's annoying. I put that bolded part in just recently, about a month-and-a-half ago. I expected it to have zero impact. I was like, "You know, no one's going to read that stuff." At least 90 percent of it: gone. Amazing. It's really incredible, but it does work, you just have to make it very, very, very obvious. And that is how I manage comments. I have no qualms with blacklisting people, but I don't usually bother, because if you delete them once or twice, their enthusiasm doesn't last. All right, so playgrounds and labs: quickly. I have a number of areas, a number of sites, that I use for different types of experiments, data gathering, and so forth. So long-form: this is a reference to long-form writing, Is the fourhourblog.com, which is also fourhourworkweek.com/blog. That, I use for my really substantive posts. Not always; every once in a while, it's something ridiculous, like the "How to Peel Hard-Boiled Eggs without Peeling Them", and that is done largely for my own entertainment. And you know what? Every once in a while, somebody's like, "oh, I really wish you wouldn't put those posts up," Sorry, man. This has to be fun for me. If it's not fun, I don't want to do it. And if I stop doing it, that's the end of the blog. So every once in a while, just for shits and giggles, I'll throw something up that's kind of ridiculous. And I encourage you to do the same. Make it fun. So long-form is that blog. Short-form is—this is actually a new site—blog.timferriss.com, which is done through Weebly, which is another interesting platform, but I have a bunch of other WordPress blogs as well: liberation.org would be another one that I use for social media fundraising. In this particular case, I am taking email content and converting it into blog posts. I receive many, many interesting emails. And obviously, with permissions from the people involved, I will label those in Gmail as blog material. And I have hundreds of these. But I don't think they're suitable for the long-form. They're not quite as substantive as some of my other posts, so I've been experimenting with this short-form. In this particular case, three tips for would-be dancers, from first-class to world-class. What was the advice I sent this guy? It was a really long email. Why not take advantage of that and use it as a blog post? And then micro-form: that would be Twitter. And of course you're familiar with that. In sum: Think big, but play often. You have to take fun seriously. Blogging can be your own self-imposed hell if you let it. Most people do that. They follow rules from people who are not paying them to blog. Don't do that. And if you talk to a lot of the top bloggers, they're absolutely open to breaking all of the rules. So don't take advice from people you don't want to emulate. Listen to people who've done it, and not to say that I am one of the top bloggers, but my blog is not a source of stress for me. It is not a source of stress, and it has been a huge, hugely positive thing in my life, and I plan to continue doing it for a very long time. So take fun seriously. So if we have some time— I don't know how much time we have—but I'd love to open it up to Q&A; you can ask me about anything you'd like whatsoever: how much time to I spend on a blog post, maybe? I'll let somebody—OK. So I will let them—we'll just start here. The question was: "You have 7 reasons to subscribe; what were some of the reasons?" I haven't looked at it in so long, to be perfectly honest; I have no idea. I don't subscribe to my own blog. I don't use an RSS reader. But I honestly don't know. I find that with RSS, people unsubscribe very quickly, so again, there's a high cost involved if you put in a lot of time or effort to convert them, and that can be discouraging if you see your RSS count dropping but I find that you can take quite a long period of time off. I've taken two, three weeks away from the blog at a time and using Twitter and Facebook, if you're building that simultaneously, it's quite easy to get back on track. So I'm paying less and less attention to RSS. [question] It seems like you spend a lot of time with your blog and everything, so how can you handle to feed that in four hours a week? Yeah. That's a good question. I was going to answer this right in the beginning, and then I was like, all right, you know, let me cover the details first. So there are some very, very impressive, incredible critiques of "The Four-Hour Work Week", or of things that I actually don't recommend. Such as being idle. So for those of you who have not read the book, in the book, work is defined as something that you want to do less of. You have to fill your time somehow. Right? And the goal is to create a lifestyle you enjoy, spend time with people whose company you enjoy, and in this particular case, the blog doesn't run my life, but there are times when I will spend time on it, a good amount of time on it, and I'll enjoy it. Some posts, I would say, the shortest post will probably take me 20, 25 minutes. There are other posts, if I'm taking it seriously; I had a friend die of pancreatic cancer recently, which prompted the post on Stoicism, and I spent six hours on that. I will spend as much time on what I deem to be an important post as a guest post for The Economist. Which I did a while back, for a debate series. I view it as equally important. Absolutely. [question] What other plugins do you use on WordPress, other than the obvious ones? So this is a good question. I was going to take a screenshot, and then I couldn't figure it out. I had to scroll to make it long enough. Besides the obvious, Redirection, I think it is. Matt Mullenweg introduced me to that. For handling 404 errors and things like that. Redirection; I'm trying to think of others; If you look at the features in my sidebar, it will probably tell you. Popularity Contest, a lot of basics. Nothing too fancy. I use ShareThis, I'm not completely convinced that people spend a lot of time on it. I think it's confusing to most people. But I didn't want to list them all out. I'm trying to minimize the number of plugins. Because sometimes they don't play so well together. [question] How do you integrate Twitter? To me, it's like a firehose of information that I can never seem to get a handle on. How I manage Twitter?