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.

September 12, 2009 — Shayne Sanderson of S-Tastic Designs talks about integrating WordPress MU and the WP E-Commerce plugin from Instinct Entertainment. He covers the features and benefits of using WP E-Commerce with WPMU, gives a demo and overview of the process, and takes questions from the audience.

September 12, 2009 — Beau Lebens talks to the WordCamp Los Angeles crowd about the extended family of products built from WordPress: WordPress MU, bbPress, BuddyPress, and BackPress.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

September 9, 2009 — Automattic announces the arrival of a new feature to WordPress.com: contextual spell and grammar checking from After the Deadline.

August 29, 2009 — Using custom fields can be confusing to new WordPress users. Scott Ellis provides an introductory explanation of how to use custom fields for image placement and the components that go into making custom fields work from front end placement to back end utilization and code.

August 11, 2009 — Automattic’s 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.

August 11, 2009 — 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

August 5, 2009 — VideoPress brings you high definition, embeddable video to your WordPress.com blog and beyond. In this short tutorial we look at the process of getting it installed, and publishing a video with it. For an overview of the VideoPress feature-set, check out our introductory video or the dedicated WordPress.com support page. For information on getting set up with a self-installed version of WordPress, check out our tutorial on just that.