Episode 28: WordCamp memories, theme hijackers and vulnerabilities

Opinion: WordCamp San Francisco 2007

In this long-overdue (not to mention overly long) episode, Aaron and Charles share their thoughts on attending WordCamp in San Francisco including:

• Matt Cutts‘ white hat SEO tips
• Matt Mullenweg‘s keynote
• High-Performance WordPress
• Dave Winer
• Lorelle definitely made an impression
• Developer duke-out
• John Pozadzides‘ videos of all the sessions
• The WordPress Podcast meetup (which the audio is available to newsletter subscribers) and John Dvorak
• Podcast listener Eric Amundson was one of several who sought me out to chat
• My appearances on the PreviewCast and Apple Universe podcasts
• A private joke between Aaron and Michael Arrington
• Liz Danzico‘s design observations on the WordPress back-end

Open question: Would anyone come to a WordCamp in Dallas, Texas?

I’m interested in spearheading efforts to plan a WordCamp in early 2008 in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area. If there is one, would you attend?

Announcement: The Baltimore-Washington WordPress Meetup Group

The next meeting of The Baltimore-Washington WordPress Meetup Group is scheduled for September 20th. (This wasn’t mentioned in the podcast because we spoke of the first meetup that occurred several weeks ago.)

News: Templates Browser modifying themes to distribute malware

Templates Browser (no, I won’t link to them) is re-distributing public blog themes which are modified in such a way as to exploit the end user by inserting hidden spam or malware links.

News: Is WordPress vulnerable?

Mark Jaquith answers a charge of 7 security vulnerabilities in WordPress 2.2.x

Feedback, comments and questions:

• Daniel Brusilovsky asks what program we use to record Skype calls. Charles recommends Pamela for Windows or possibly Hot Recorder, Aaron uses Soundflower, Audio Hijack Pro and Audacity. Visit sites like Podcast Alley or Podcast Pickle for more tips.
• Betsy Flanagan asks why there’s a difference between FeedBurner statistics and podPress statistics.