The WordCamp Report

Barry a large race fan, thought of an indy car first off when thinking of his topic.
The Problem
Serve as many users as possible with a reasonable amount of resources.
Un-tuned LAMP Stack

Linux Apache 2, PHP4 or 5, MySQL 4. or 5.0
8 requests/sec
691,2000 pageviews/day
Enough for > 99% WP installations

A nice smooth trip in this morning.
This morning people seemed to drag in slowly, perhaps tired from the day before. After setting up the conversations flowed between each other. From topics on telecommunications/wireless, Cingular and its sexy phones (iphone) verses Verizon and its network, and about Google wanting to spend 4.6 Billion to buy [...]

What happens when a few hundred attendees invade nearby restaurants… confusion, and I ended up eating at some Arab place with Charles, Lorelle, Aarron Brazeil and a number of others, that at this time I can’t remember. One reason might be the party afterwards at Lucky #13… It was a great time of BSing, excuse [...]

Shows an example of a Web Owner who thinks that Google hates his website.
“weak magnets are lose.” - this guy claims he’s being oppressed by Google. Censorship!
If you view source on the page you find a text area full of just text. Hundreds of words, in a 20 pixel box.

Total Improved Presentation. through away planned, and wrote a new one.
What makes an obvious blog?
Striping out features
Reducing form elements to focus a page.
But they don’t relate to blogs
Wore the coat, so he’s a professional speaker….
But the two main ideas for blogs

Building only what’s necessary
Servicing the important elements