Branding David

It has been a while since I really immersed myself into WordPress culture, and Jeff from WPTavern has given me the chance to dive right in as his new co-host for WordPress Weekly, a podcast recorded live on Talkshoe every Friday night at 8PM EST.

Combine this with my writing on Blogging Pro, and I feel like I have gone years back in time. I am writing on the blog that really started my career, and working on a WordPress related podcast. I am excited to see what happens next as I really enjoy working with Jeff, and have distinct opinions on WordPress.

If you are interested in listening to WordPress news and information rather than reading it, I suggest you check out the WordPress Weekly podcast and if you need reminders on when it is going to be on, please check out Blogging Pro, as I’ll be leaving reminders on there each week.

It has been a long time since I’ve written on Blogging Pro, but that has recently changed as Mark, the owner of Splashpress Media, recently got ahold of me and asked me to begin posting on there once again. While my schedule has been insanely busy, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity because many people consider Blogging Pro the site that rocketed me into mass attention in the WordPress and blogging communities.

I will be trying to publish one post per week day on various WordPress and blogging related topics in hopes of once again pushing forward my own brand while helping Splashpress Media achieve its goals with the site. Also, it is nice to get back to talking about one of my favourite subjects: WordPress blogging.

It also feels really nice to increase my archive on that site, as I have over one thousand posts within its pages, and I am looking forward to adding another thousand over the next few years.

If you are interested in WordPress, I hope you’ll check out Blogging Pro.

I was a guest on episode 49 of the WordPress Podcast with Charles Stricklin and Jonathan Bailey. It was a lot of fun to be part of the episode, and reminded me how much I miss talking with Charles and WordPress.

Some things that were discussed include:

• WordPress 2.7 was released
• Microsoft enters the Open Source blogware world with Oxite
• New Media Expo merges with Blog World Expo
• WordPress Theme Repository purged of hundreds of themes
• Six Apart shuts down Pownce
• Dates announced for WordCamp San Francisco 2009, WordCamp Chicago 2009, WordCamp Dallas 2009 and WordCamp Columbus 2009
• WordPress.com passes the 5 million blog mark
• Media Uploader Overview
• Learning to love comment moderation
• The Many Ways to Configure Your New Dashboard
• WordPress.com Goes Gravatar Crazy
• 43 Degrees, but it’s snowing

I got to give my opinions, which hopefully people will enjoy and not disagree with too harshly. A huge thanks to Charles and Jonathan for having me on and I hope you’ll all check out the episode.