Month: February 2008

Appearance On TwoBeams Podcast

Rob White runs a weekly podcast on Friday evenings at 8PM EST on Talkshoe called, Podcast Training And Chat. This past Friday, I was his special guest host as we covered the topic of WordPress. I discussed how I got involved with WordPress, previous experiences, then I discussed various plugins for different purposes. By the way, I also gave out which blogs I’m subscribed to in my feed reader which keep me up to date with the WordPress world.

Please give the show a listen and let me know what you think. It’s pretty weird being on the receiving end of an interview but it was fun.

Two Beams: Podcasting Training and Chat

WordPress 2.3.3 Security Release

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The WordPress.org team has released an official update to WordPress dubbed 2.3.3. This update fixes a serious security flaw that was discovered within the XML-RPC implementation. By using this flaw, a specially crafted request would allow any valid user to edit posts of any other user on that blog.

The team also managed to place three bug fixes into the patch which can be viewed here. These types of releases for WordPress.org are serious. No, the world will not end if you do not upgrade. However, you are putting your site at an increased risk of being exploited. As was reported by me on WeblogToolsCollection.com, malicious users are in fact taking advantage of the flaws found within the WP-Forum plugin. If you are using WP-Forum, you are encouraged to disable the plugin until a security patch has been released.

Visit WordPress.org to see the complete details regarding this release.

Free C2C AM StreamLink Week

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For those of you who do not have access to the Coast To Coast AM Streamlink service already, or for those who can not catch the program when it airs  live, your in luck. Coast To Coast AM is doing a free streamlink week. Usually these promotions only last a weekend, but this time its seven days. For those of you who don’t know, Coast To Coast AM is a live talk show radio program that airs every night between the hours of 1 A.M. EST to 5 A.M. EST that is broadcast across the world. Topics that the show covers include: aliens, ufos, abductions, dreams, alternative medicine, bigfoot, cryptozoology, lochness, astronomy, time travel, physics, ect. If it’s interesting and requires intelligence, these guys talk about it. You won’t find anything mainstream here. Sure, the guests and their theories can be nutty at times, even down right hilarious. But the information that is presented on this show is generally not covered or discussed anywhere else within the magnitude of Coast To Coast.

To Mike, Mark, and anyone else interested in this sort of thing, I highly encourage you to take full advantage of the free streamlink service this week. I would be very interested in knowing what you guys think!

We’re happy to announce an upcoming Free Streamlink ‘Week’ running from Wed. Feb. 6th through Sun. Feb. 10th. Participants will have a chance to test drive our subscriber package, including podcasting current shows, and downloading recent favorites. Join us here at 7pm PT on Wed. to start experiencing the excitement and convenience that Streamlink offers!