WordCast Recap: 2/15/10
By davemoyer, posted February 19, 2010 at 7:50 pm | No Comments »
We’re wrapping up the week here at WordCast, bringing you the very best of our blogging, social media and WordPress news, tips, tricks, reviews and how-tos since Monday. This week we focused quite a bit on the WordPress.com outage, and also brought you the details about the newest version of the WordPress.org blogging system, a tip on how to use your browser better as a blogger, and more.
February 15 – February 19, 2010
WordPress.com Goes Down, Blogs Experience Outages
- Guest: Scott Porad of Pet Holdings, parent company of I Can Has Cheezburger
- Guest: Harry McCracken of Technologizer
WordPress 2.9.2 Released: Minor Security Fix
Blogger Rolling Out Automatic Pagination
WordPress Tip of the Week: Lorelle shows us how to Know Thy Browser


Just realized I said “12 million blogs on WordPress.com” when in reality they only beat 10 million in 2009. Apologies for that. Missed a couple million there
Dave, there seems to be again (or still) a problem with the iTunes feed. I heard of that problem from other shows. What actually seems to happen is that there’s something that changed in iTunes and if the page in iTunes is not updating it doesn’t mean the feed is broken. In fact I did get the Conversations 1+2 and #2 doesn’t actually show in iTunes Store. But I guess since it stopped working again there might be something else to it.
All of them rule in right now through iTunes. Thanks for the fix … I know I need my WC fix
[...] WordPress.com was down for almost two hours. Dave Moyer, the host of WordCast, interviewed me about the outage, how it affected our business and my thoughts about WordPress.com going forward. You can listen [...]