Episode 43: Out of date blogs hacked, All-In-One SEO gets dropped, then picked up

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1. Brian Layman, of b5media, joins Charles as co-host, filling in for Jonathan Bailey who’s in Newcastle-upon-tyne, United Kingdom speaking at the 3rd International Plagiarism Conference.
2. Some blogs running older versions of WordPress were hacked. Peter offers a way to have your site notify you when things are changed.
3. Support for the popular plugin All in One SEO Pack was dropped by its author, only to be picked up a few days later by a new author.
4. Crazy Horse is a development branch of WordPress to further the admin overhaul begun by WordPress 2.5. (PDF document)
5. Automattic Dev Andy Skelton introduced Batcache, a non file-based caching solution based on the one WordPress.com uses.
6. HyperDB updated for compatibility with WordPress trunk at revision 8094.
7. Get well soon, Lorelle!
8. Plugin: Author Highlight allows you to style the comments made by you or other authors differently than regular commenters.
9. Plugin: WP Security Scan scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions.