Episode 26: Dennis Kennedy discusses copyrights, GPL and Creative Commons

Written by Charles Stricklin and Aaron Brazell Published on June 20th, 2007

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01:00 Interview: Legal issues surrounding blogging with Dennis Kennedy
Episode 26 is devoted almost entirely to our discussion with Dennis Kennedy, a noted lawyer and blogger on topics relating to technology and the Internet. Dennis answers our questions about intellectual property, copyrights, Creative Commons and the GPL, including the new GPL 3.
40:43 Feedback: WordPress needs translators!
Ari Kontiainen, from Finland, points out the dilemma non-English bloggers face having to choose between using a newer, more secure version of WordPress that hasn’t been translated to their language yet, or remaining with an older, less secure version that has. We fell your pain, Ari, and because of that, we encourage anyone who knows additional languages to volunteer your time to localizing WordPress to other languages.

Episode 25: WordPress.com goes over a million and WordCamp

Written by Charles Stricklin and Aaron Brazell Published on June 7th, 2007

 
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03:38

News: WordPress.com goes over 1 million blogs

WordPress.com recently saw the creation of their millionth blog. That’s exceptional growth by anyone’s standard, and congratulations go out to everyone at Automattic for working so hard to make Wordpress.com the success that it is.
06:22

News: Movable Type 4 (re)embraces Open Source

SixApart recently announced that Movable Type 4 will be Open Source Software and released under GPL, yet they’ll charge for it?! Aaron and I agree that this is too little, too late for the WordPress predecessor.
12:32

News: Unless you’re running WordPress 2.2 or 2.0.10, your blog is vulnerable!

Aaron recently reacted to an unscientific survey with his own unscientific survey, finding that most blogs are behind on updating their installations of WordPress to the most recent version, making their blogs extremely vulnerable to attack or hijacking.
18:14

News: WordCamp San Francisco 2007 is nearing and appears to lack organization

Matt Mullenweg may have wanted WordCamps organized all over the world, but Aaron and I would settle for the one actually being organized. A little more than a month away, and there’s no R.S.V.P. list or agenda. As much as we appreciate Automattic organizing the conference, we’re voicing the concerns of a lot of people when we voice our frustrations over the seeming lack of organization and advance information.We also talked about our plans to hold a session on podcasting and record an episode there.
27:19

News: Weblog Tools Collection holds 2nd Annual Plug-In Competition and Sandbox Design Competition

One of our favorite blogging tools sources, Weblog Tools Collection, has begun running two competitions nearly concurrently. The 2nd annual competition for WordPress plug-ins ends July 31st and features some nifty prizes, and the Sandbox Design Competition makes its first appearance, ends 12:00 AM (GMT), Sunday, July 29, 2007 and offers some nice chucks o’change.
32:30

Feedback, comments and questions:

  • Jerald Sheets corrects us on the use of the phrase “ripped off” when it comes to the GPL.
  • Eric Genkisan corrects us on his Genki YouTube Comments plug-in, saying that it works even on other people’s video, which doesn’t make us very happy.
  • Daniel got to thinking about Aaron’s idea for an RSS-only blog (which was the idea anyway) and shared his thoughts on the subject. (We didn’t understand it all, but it was all very intriguing. Was he suggesting the end of branding?)