September 26, 2009 — Jane Wells of Automattic talks briefly about the state of WordPress 2.9, then answers a handful of questions from the WordCamp audience about things like the WordPress community, how to engage volunteers, and the evolution of the WordPress UI.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 26, 2009 — Chris Pirillo talks about the origins of Internet communities, what it means to be part of an Internet community, and what’s important in creating and maintaining your Internet community.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 25, 2009 — Akismet is a powerful spam filter that’s built in to WordPress.com. But what if you’re running a self-hosted WordPress blog?

This tutorial will give you the simple information you need to install and activate Akismet on your WordPress.org blog.

September 25, 2009 — Now, you can add generate short URLs at wp.me with a single click. This video will show you how.

This feature is currently only available on WordPress.com.

September 20, 2009 — A couple of SEO professionals who think that SEO is very important for every blogger (Scott Hendison and Amber Case) and a couple bloggers who think that SEO is overrated (Dawn Foster and Rick Turoczy) take pointed questions from moderator Nate DiNiro and the WordCamp Portland audience.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 20, 2009 — Garron Selliken discusses applications of geotagging and map implementations for WordPress sites and his development project of a plugin for WordPress to support and enable mapping individual WordPress posts.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 20, 2009 — Will Norris talks about some of the common pitfalls and mistakes made when constructing plugins, including security and usability concerns and how to efficiently and cleanly create your code. Includes code examples of both what to do and what not to do.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 20, 2009 — Scott Porad from The Cheezburger Network talks about the design and business philosophy behind the Cheezburger network of sites and how those sites use WordPress to accomplish those things.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 20, 2009 — John Hawkins demonstrates the basics of constructing a plugin, designing it to make the changes you want, and then using that plugin to alter your WordPress site in a persistent way. Includes some basic discussion on hooks and functions, as well as some sample code.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 20, 2009 — Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress discusses challenges and opportunities in the tag and category structure of WordPress blogs and shares some tips for keeping yours organized and effective.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.