So both the WordPress Podcast and WordPress Weekly have put out new episodes this week.
Both talk about WordCamp Dallas, and WordPress 2.5, but in different ways as Charles was one of the key organizers of the event, and Jeff was an attendee.
From the WordPress Podcast episode 39:
I’d intended to release this episode during [...]

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It looks like WordCamp Dallas destroyed the podcasting schedule of both the WordPress Podcast, as Charles was the organizer of the Dallas event, and Jeff’s WordPress Weekly, who seems to be backed up sorting through all the media that was recorded.
It looks like the event was great, now I just wish they’d record some [...]

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So far, I haven’t heard many big complaints about WordPress 2.5. There are lots of confused people out there trying to get a handle on all of the changes, and many errors they are having are of their own creation, but theme, plugin and other major errors seem to be relatively low for a release [...]

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It looks like WordPress 2.5 “Brecker” is making the WordCamp Dallas release date that many people were hoping it would make as the WordPress.org website gets a fresh design that reminds me of the WordPress 2.5 administration panel interface.
Not yet on the development blog, but oddly shown on the front page:
WordPress 2.5, the culmination [...]

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Both WordPress Weekly and the WordPress Podcast have pushed out new episodes this week, with each talking about very different things in the WordPress community.
WordPress Weekly put out their tenth episode, with talks of the WordPress 2.5 administration panel included colour sets, gravatars being added to the WordPress support forum, and some other great news [...]

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Aaron Brazell has written up a great overview of what people can expect from WordPress 2.5, including some interesting things he has noticed. It will be interesting to see if his ideas are incorporated into WordPress 2.5 before the final version is released, and I look forward to seeing what he does with the [...]

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Itching to try out WordPress 2.5, but don’t want to use Subversion or the nightly builds? Well, the team has finally pushed out the first release candidate, bringing us one step closer to a final version of WordPress 2.5.
Matt has written up a nice post going over what you can expect from the new version [...]

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So WordPress 2.5 was supposed to be pushed back to today according to the schedule on Trac. So many people reported on the delay, but I don’t think enough people really thought about the fact that we haven’t seen a real beta release yet.
The chatter in the development mailing list seems to be very [...]

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I bet you expected me to complete the sentence started in the title of this post, but it is unknown when WordPress 2.5 will be released. The WordPress trac has the due date pushed to the 17th, but some are scratching their heads if that will even happen.
The last full version of WordPress was released [...]

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So our two WordPress related shows have released another episode with the WordPress Podcast pushing out episode 37 and the WordPress Weekly Podcast on episode 9.
A fair bit of the WordPress podcast was devoted to what is going on with Charles and Jonathan as well as WordPress 2.5, which hasn’t come out yet. This week [...]

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WordPress 2.5 is supposed to come out today, at least that is when it was scheduled to come out, and that is what Trac still lists as the due date. With a little over twelve hours remaining before the tenth of March is over, will the team push out the release?
My current bet would be [...]

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With WordPress 2.5 scheduled for release on March 10th, some people have been wondering if they are going to be able to make that date, with still half of the tickets assigned to the release still open.
Matt Mullenweg chimed in to let everyone know what’s going on:
There is still a fair amount of testing going [...]

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As things continue to progress, and we get closer to the next major release of WordPress, the podcasting scene continues to grow, and increase in pace. With two weekly shows about WordPress, I feel like we are getting all of our news, but now Performancing, a sister blog to Blogging Pro is getting their podcasting [...]

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It feels like it has been a long time since I have looked at a WordPress.com wrap-up, but every time I do, I am blown away by the hugeness of the numbers Matt lays down.

245,329 blogs were created.
432,478 new users joined.
1,920,593 file uploads.
2,814,893 posts and 996 thousand new pages.
4,961,330 comments.

At Northern Voice, Matt mention that [...]

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One of the most exciting parts of the recent Northern Voice conference was the opportunity to meet Matt Mullenweg. I hadn’t been able to attend any of the WordCamps as of yet and so I hadn’t had the honour.
On the first day of Northern Voice, called Moosecamp, Lloyd Budd, also of Automattic, let me [...]

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Charles is getting into his podcasting stride, and keeping up with the new WordPress Weekly, as he pushes out his own show weekly. I am very impressed that he’s been able to retain the quality of the show during this faster production deadline.
In episode 35 he covers WordPress 2.5’s feature freeze, WordPress 2.5 demo blog, [...]

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If you enjoyed listening to me in the WordPress Podcast with Charles, then you might be interested to hear me in WordPress Weekly, a fan created podcast run by Jeffro of Jeffro2pt0. I was recently in episode six, which discusses many interesting things relating to WordPress and the WordPress community.

This week on Episode 6, we [...]

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Charles did it! After a little more than a week, he released a new episode, so he’s off to a great start with his weekly scheduled release of the WordPress podcast. As WordPress news heats up this year, it will be great to see a quick and consistent release schedule.
Some of the show notes include:
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Itching for a chance to play with WordPress 2.5 but don’t want to deal with installing it yourself? Chris Johnston has put up a great demo install for people to mess around with. It gives you the latest version of WordPress to enjoy.
Many of the administration panel design elements are quickly coming together, which [...]

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Last year was really my first year of attending events related to blogging, but thankfully, I get to do it again this year, and one of the conferences I am going to is Northern Voice, a two day event being held in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada that starts off with a Barcamp-like day called Moosecamp, [...]

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