The WordCamp Report

Scott Porad with Pet Holdings, the parent company of I Can Has Cheezburger? and Failblog.org, among many others.
What these sites have in common is they are entertainment/humor business, they are hosted on WordPress.com on the VIP hosting plan, among the top 50 blogs on the service, and they are based upon user generated and generated [...]

Live Blogging from WordCamp San Francisco 2009
Steve Souders is a high performance website expert formerly of Google. He worked on the web performance and open source initiatives and is the author of High Performance Web Sites. Steve serves as co-chair of Velocity, an event to promote web performances and practices for high performance sites, and [...]

Ann Oyama, aka SuperAnn, works as a WordPress, web, and software developer who programs custom WordPress Themes and Plugins. She also runs BayAnime.com, a community site for San Francisco Bay area fans of anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture. She spoke on WordPress Themes customization.
She began with some basic coverage of good practices for WordPress [...]

Live from WordCamp San Francicso 2009
Dave Moyer of WordCast Podcast and founder and producer of the Bitwire Media, a multimedia publishing company, talked about the basics of Podcasting and using podcasting with audio and video to build a community. Most of his presentation was on the production side of producing a podcast.
The first step is [...]

As a quick aside WordCamp SF starts tomorrow and should be great with over 700 Participants going (after registration close earlier this week).  And with the amazing list of speakers that was updated and expanded on, it’ll be hard to decide where I’ll be, but I will try to live blog the sessions as much [...]

As I’ve mentioned WordCamp San Francisco Opened Registration, but they also locked down a few of there Speakers. Already it looks entertaining with the personable and very entertaining and knowledgeable Matt Cutts from Google, and Steve Souders also from Google but on web performance and open source initiatives side, and a number of [...]

If you check out the WordCamp San Francisco site you’ll see that registration is open and we’ve already announced some great speakers: Matt Cutts, Tim Ferriss, Philip Greenspun, Doug Hanna, Tara Hunt, yours truly, Andy Peatling, and Steve Souders. (More coming.) It’s going to be a killer event. Mark your calendars: May 30.
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I am thanking Matt a lot for this great list of photos of WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco.  I added a couple, but petty much the whole list he put together.

Adam Tow took some great photos (including the above panarama)
This hilarious set with the WordCamp sign
Duane Storey’s
Randy Stewart’s
Ben Metcalfe’s
Andrew Mager
Nick from CNP’s
Jenn Vargas
Dennis Goedegebuure’s
Mark Ghosh’s
Lorelle’s
Planet [...]

Liz Danzico and Jane Wells talks about the Beta experimental version of WordPress.
Bizzaro WordPress.  Think of it, and test it.
Two Kinds of People
Windows Vista vs. MacOSX? (where is Linux love?)
Eye Tracking Studies where used to see where people were actually looking.
The 2.5 backstory
Findability, consistancy and “transparent design”

Matt has opened up the signup for the WordCamp San Francisco event which will be held on August 16th 2008.
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The WordCamp cost has been reduced by $5, each ticket will only cost $20 for this event. Though only one day this time, its at a bigger, more comfortable location.
Going by the success of [...]