September 19, 2009 — Matt Mullenweg of Automattic answers questions from the WordPress community, including making money from open source products, migrating from WordPress.com to WordPress.org, the history of WordPress, the roles system in WordPress, core vs. plugins, blog comments, WordPress security, and more.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 19, 2009 — Cami Kaos and Dr. Normal from Strange Love Live talk about podcasting content, how difficult it can be to keep podcasts going, where to find content and how to interact with a greater community, and how to be entertaining.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 19, 2009 — Jason Grigsby of Cloud Four discusses the bloat that’s crept into web site design processes and how to combat it to keep your WordPress installation lean and optimized. He shares tips and tricks for caching, choosing the right resources for your blog, compression, and other optimization strategies for your WordPress-powered site.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 18, 2009 — Amit Agarwal gives a quick tutorial on how to move a blog from Blogger to self-hosted WordPress while minimizing damage to search rankings or results.

For more information on this process and the source for the file mentioned in the video tutorial, please visit Amit’s site at labnol.org.

September 13, 2009 — HookPress allows you to set up webhooks so that a specified URL (a public service or something you set up) is requested when certain WordPress actions occur. Possible uses include generating push notifications or using non-PHP web technology to extend WordPress. This introduction by the plugin author, mitcho, gives you a brief overview of HookPress and a couple of examples for getting started.

September 12, 2009 — John Hawkins runs through the basics of creating a WordPress plugin, with code examples and an explanation of the basic principles behind plugin creation and interactions.

September 12, 2009 — Andrew Warner discusses how easy and inexpensive it is to create video that can be added to a blog, including ideas for hardware, suggestions and demonstrations of software packages for managing video, and basic techniques for video-making.

September 12, 2009 — Jim Turner discusses his experiences with blogging for a living, including what types of blogging jobs are available, who’s hiring bloggers, and what personal blogging skills are important for professional blogging.

September 12, 2009 — Micah Baldwin talks about the importance of failure, how it affects success, and what you can learn from yours.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

September 12, 2009 — Ben Huh discusses the beginnings of the Cheezburger Network, the principles and ideas behind the network, some lessons learned, and how those things can inform you when planning a business venture.