Episode 5: Interview with Jason Van Orden, author of ‘Promoting Your Podcast’
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:
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[...] Episode 5 of the WordPress Podcast has “gone to air” and covered the following: * 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-based Business Mastery and the Podcasting Underground, and author of Promoting Your Podcast. Mentioned in the interview: o How to Podcast Tutorial o Tee Morris‘ Podcasting for Dummies companion podcast o PodPress plug-in o FeedBurner plug-in o Podcast411 o The Daily Source Code [...]
[...] The WordPress Community [...]
Thanks for your thoughts on the issue of charging for wordpress. Another thing I’d chime in with is that I think it’s inappropriate to charge for features that wordpress will not offer technical support for — for instance, self-managed CSS. I don’t mind paying for technical support, personally, but to pay for a “feature” that has almost no documentation and no technical support available, is asking to piss off a lot of users who get themselves in too deep in CSS, and then can’t get help fixing it. Many, many people could pay the fee, do something dumb in their CSS, and then their Wordpress blogs won’t even be viewable in a browser! So in essence they’d be paying Wordpress for the ability NOT to have a blog.
If the Wordpress team could write some awesome theme-extending plugins that would allow a person to change certain CSS-y aspects (link colors, color schemes, background graphics, etc.), or some killer sidebar widgets, or some other features that they could actually maintain and support as an added value on the software, I say “go for it! charge away!” But to pay for the privilege of writing my own CSS? That just smells bad.
Thanks for the chance to sound off.
-Sara
Hey! That advertisement that was at the end of the show, man. I almost missed it! You should incorporate it into the middle like a commercial. If its near the end, after the theme music fades away, you run the risk of people cutting the show off early or just just not paying attention at that point.