It has been a slower week for WordPress news but there is still a great deal to talk about including a feature freeze on version 2.5, a new development blog and an interview with the author of WordPress for Dummies

It has been another busy week for WordPress news and, once again, Charles Stricklin, Lorelle and myself are here to cover it.

Episode 33 of the WordPress Podcast is now live! Be sure to give it a listen as Charles and I struggle to get caught up on about 2 months worth of news.

Earlier this year, the United States Copyright Office (USCO) announced that they were going to begin beta testing their new electronic copyright office (eCO) system to accept registrations over the Web.
The system, in theory, is supposed to make registering your work with the USCO easier, faster and cheaper than the traditional “file by mail” [...]

When Sallie Goetsch received a Google Alert for her name, she was originally excited. It meant, most likely, that one of her free Web articles had been picked up and used by another site.
However, when she followed the link, she found something else. Rather than a properly attributed article, complete with bio and proper [...]

To update yesterday’s post about Wordpress.com being relatively free of spam blogs, I was contacted by Anil Dash, a Vice President at Six Apart, about their LiveJournal service.
According to Dash, the LiveJournal service, though having a larger user base than Wordpress.com and being equally free to use, is also relatively free of spam blogs. He [...]