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 Episode 5: Interview with Jason Van Orden, author of 'Promoting Your Podcast' [35:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Episode 5 covers:

• WordPress 2.0 has been downloaded over 1 million times!
• WordPress.com turns one year-old.
• Technorati’s state of the blogosphere.
• Interview with Jason Van Orden, host of GothamCast, Internet Business Mastery and the Podcasting Underground, and author of Promoting Your Podcast. Mentioned in the interview:
  • How to Podcast Tutorial
  • Tee Morris‘ Podcasting for Dummies companion podcast
  • PodPress plug-in
  • FeedBurner plug-in
  • Podcast411
  • The Daily Source Code

 

 Standard Podcast [0:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here is a 30-second promotional clip for the podcast. Feel free to include this is your own podcast. (Please let me know if you do.)

 

 Standard Podcast [12:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Episode 4 covers:

• WordCamp 2006 recaps, including video, audio, photographs and BBQ. (The Blog Herald has some very good coverage including a podcast.)
• Changes at WordPress.com:
  1. $15 U.S. a year to edit your own CSS. (Randy Walker and Tony Street debate if this is a good idea.)
  2. Domain-mapping beta test.
  3. Allowing private blogs.
  4. Menus to report spam and mature content.
• Bryan Veloso barely gets unpacked before tackling changes to the admin page.
• Redesigned login page, coupled with an argument for Sandbox over Kubrick. Will the winner of Undersigned’s theme competition end up as the default?
• Indranil’s theme Brown
• Create N Place plug-in allows you to write new blog posts right on the front page of your blog.
• Why cause problems for people using accountability software like x3watch from XXXChurch.com, when it’s so easy to just update Bad Behavior?
• Music: Ferdinand and Isabelle by The Mark Kleinhaut Trio with Bobby Watson, from the A Balance of Light. (Thanks go to Nick Carver at No Idle Frets.)