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Is China living in Russia's shadow? Can we compare the Gutenberg Bible to the first iPhone? Why did so many friendships fall apart in post communist Europe and why do we name things after people? Hello Mr Coronavirus, Lady Luck is with Hurricane Tammy right now.

While I'm off this week, we have my recent chat with Andrew Rannells about his new book 'Uncle of the Year: & Other Debatable Triumphs,' plus his upcoming Broadway show 'Gutenberg! The Musical!' (SPOILER: It's NOT about Steve Guttenberg). Later, Ike Barinholtz is here to talk his new film 'Maximum Truth,' his father Alan's iconic role as the Judge on 'Jury Duty', and his new moustache. Which reminds me: why is Ike not gay? For more interviews and behind-the-scenes tea, tune in to Andy Cohen Live weekdays on Radio Andy by subscribing to SiriusXM. Use my code siriusxm.com/radioandytrial for a free trial!

Welcome to Historical Fiction June!

Today's book review is of Alix Christie's book, "Gutenberg's Apprentice".

Music © by Capazunda.

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Ambie and Crystal have their annual awards show about the best games of the year in the 2022 Blitzies!

The 2022 Blitzies: 0:40
--Best Party Game: 1:49
--Best Card Game: 2:58
--Best Trick Taker: 4:38
--Best Family Game: 6:07
--Best Cooperative Game: 8:19
--Best Roll & Write: 9:54
--Best Theming: 11:38
--Biggest Surprise: 13:49
--Most Innovative: 16:14
--Best New to Us Not 2022: 19:42
--Best Game We Haven't Played Yet: 22:33
--Best Game of 2022: 23:51
--2022 Looking Forward to Recap: 25:58
--Looking Forward to in 2023: 27:40
--Best Podcast: 32:04
Outro: 32:12
Bloopers: 33:16

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For the full show notes visit our site at http://www.boardgameblitz.com/posts/346

WordPress Starter Themes are important for custom WordPress web development. Above all, they put developer experience first and challenge the status quo of best practices. We discuss the differences between a developer starter theme and a multi-purpose theme, and why using a starter theme can give you a big head start in your custom theme development to achieve better results.

Highlights
0:00 Intro
2:44 Multipurpose vs. Starter Themes
5:21 Benefits of Starter Themes
8:34 Approaches to Starter Themes
16:03 Popular Starter Themes
17:44 What makes a good Starter Theme?
20:40 The future of themes
24:13 Why we build Flynt
26:52 Gutenberg redefined themes
31:06 Challenging the status quo
33:37 Better developer experiences

Links
Flynt: https://flyntwp.com/
underscores: https://underscores.me/
Sage: https://roots.io/sage/
Episode w/ Jared Novack (Timber): https://youtu.be/c3GlhhwpKRo
Popular Starter Themes: https://github.com/topics/wordpress-starter-theme
Episode about Gutenberg: https://youtu.be/m-nLuvchssg
WordPress block hydration experiments: https://github.com/WordPress/block-hydration-experiments/discussions/131

More from Bleech
Blog Posts (WordPress Development)
Flynt (WordPress Starter Theme)
VRTs (Visual Tests for WordPress)
Siegfried, deploy! (YouTube Channel)

Would you look at that, our 50th episode. While that ain’t nothing but a thing, we do have a doozy for you this time, an episode about the impact of AI. Few creative people in the ad industry know AI the way George Tannenbaum does. Considering his long stint working with Watson at IBM, who better to engage in a thoughtful discussion about the effects and ramifications of AI? As usual, George says things you should listen to – so listen here.

00:18 - George Intro

02:57 - George's thoughts on AI

04:29 - George's AI Experience

07:44 - Gutenberg Press

09:10 - Has the Smartphone changed us

13:05 - What does AI do well

15:29 - AI and Economic Pull

26:49 - Curating the bottom but creating the top

30:32 - 10 year AI ad projection 

35:11 - Behaviors affecting brands

38:33 - AI and churn

45:56 - Showing companies and value and downfall of AI

https://georgeco.de/

The Invention Episode! Listen to hear: the caveman who invented the wheel, the first fireworks, friends discuss how embarrassing middle school is, Gutenberg invents the printing press, the Wright Brothers airline, an apology for actions at an office cocktail party, and Edison's assistant proves that all his inventions make it easier to have sex.

"Great Moments in Inventions" narrated by Molly Rodenbush

"Pre-Inventing the Wheel" starring Dan Ramirez, Bo Segrest, and Rosemary West

"All You Need is Gun" starring Molly Rodenbush, Bo Segrest, and Henry Nickerson

"Embarrassing Things From Middle School" starring Dan Ramirez, Bo Segrest, Rosemary West, and special guest star Dan Karlin

"The Printing Press is Out of Toner" starring Bo Segrest and Rosemary West

"The Wright Stuff" starring Dan Ramirez, Bo Segrest, and Rosemary West

"I Hope This Email Finds You Well" starring Rosemary West

"Edison's Ass-istant" starring Bo Segrest and Henry Nickerson as Thomas Edison

All sketches written by Bo Segrest

THE CAST: 

ROSEMARY WEST

HENRY NICKERSON

MOLLY RODENBUSH

DANIEL RAMIREZ

and BO SEGREST

SPECIAL GUEST STAR: DAN KARLIN
 

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You can see the cast of Modern Exhibits perform Tuesdays at 8:00pm EST at Improv Asylum Theater in Boston: TICKETS

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In this episode of Post Status Draft, Cory is joined by James Farmer, CEO of Incsub, WPMU DEV, CampusPress, and Edublogs. James’ WordPress story goes all the way back to his launch of the first hosted WordPress multisite blogging platform — just a few days ahead of WordPress.com. Edublogs currently hosts millions of students’ and educators’ blogs. James talks about successes and failures, his views on Gutenberg, and how he stays competitive with Squarespace. Cory brings up the WordPress.org active install data question and gets James’ take on how he’d like to see it re-emerge with greater value for plugin businesses.

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🔗 Mentioned in the show:

• Incsub - WPMU DEV, CampusPress, & Edublogs
• WPMU DEV
• CampusPress: WordPress for Education | Websites & ePortfolios
• EduBlogs: Blogs & Websites For Education

🐦 You can follow Post Status and our guests on Twitter:

• James Farmer (Founder, Incsub)
• Cory Miller (Editor, Post Status)
• Olivia Bisset (Intern, Post Status)

The Post Status Draft podcast is geared toward WordPress professionals, with interviews, news, and deep analysis. 📝

Browse our archives, and don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, Simplecast, or RSS. 🎧

Transcript ↓

This week in Post Status Slack, Lesley Sim, the founder of Newsletter Glue, dropped this announcement:

"While everybody is offering discounts for Black Friday, we’re planning to significantly raise prices. We’ll be narrowing our target audience and focusing mainly on medium-large publishers and online businesses; working with them more closely and providing a high level of customization and support."

What motivated Lesley's decision? Where does she expect it to take her company?

For some background, listen to my recent conversation with Till Krüss, whose business model for Object Cache Pro and conversations following from it were part of Lesley's thinking about her own product.

In this conversation with Lesley, we talk about:

Pay attention to the shape of your market and your pricing.

Lesley Sim

• Lesley's experience with Black Friday sales tactics.
• "Lifetime" memberships and licenses.
• Where Newsletter Glue started and how its pricing model has changed.
• Why freemium didn't work for Newsletter Glue.
• Lesley's experience entering — and leaving — the WordPress plugin directory.
• How Newsletter Glue's pricing has steadily evolved toward a better match with its ideal customers.
• How Lesley accessed enterprise agencies and clients.
• What Lesley has learned and hopes to achieve in the future.
• The technical challenges and barriers to reaching a high-end market.

🔗 Mentioned in the show:

• Newsletter Glue is a WordPress plugin that connects your WordPress content and the block editor with a newsletter service, like Mailchimp. It simplifies newsletter publishing so you can focus on writing — in WordPress — and sending your content out from there without having to copy/paste/edit content or create layouts inside your newsletter service's separate, not-as-good design interface.
• InstaWP is what it sounds like: a way to launch a WordPress sandbox/demo site in less than a second.
• Groundhogg is Marketing Automation and CRM For Serious Agencies and Small Businesses using WordPress.
• LifterLMS helps education entrepreneurs enable their learners to achieve their desired outcomes, to truly change lives, and make a great living in the process.
• rtCamp is a WordPress VIP Gold Ageny Partner delivering enterprise-grade web publishing and digital commerce solutions with WordPress to Fortune 500 companies.
• The Code Company is a very specialized agency for publishers focused on the WordPress core competency: publishing! They are specialist WordPress engineers who solve complex publishing problems at scale.
• Human Made is one of the oldest enterprise agencies in WordPress. They've been one of the largest contributors to the WordPress core project, and the wider ecosystem and community. They make Altis DXP, the evolution of how they work with WordPress. Human Made believes Altis is a fundamental and major step forward for the WordPress ecosystem.

🐦 You can follow Post Status and our guests on Twitter:

• Lesley Sim (Founder, Newsletter Glue)
• Dan Knauss (Editor, Post Status)
• Olivia Bisset (Intern, Post Status)

The Post Status Draft podcast is geared toward WordPress professionals, with interviews, news, and deep analysis. 📝

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Transcript

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Pocket Book Adventures, The Mysterious Case of Dancing Mania, Connected Clues, and Gutenberg. We then talk about what "gateway games" are and some games we like using to show people what's out there in the board gaming hobby! And finally, Crystal goes over the etymology of the word 'Clue.'

Announcements: 0:49
Recent Games: 1:28
Gateway Games: 15:54
Board Game Etymology - 'Clue': 30:53
Outro: 32:59
Bloopers: 33:55

Join our discord: https://discord.gg/WvRVnVeYMS

Pocket Book Adventures: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/358663/pocket-book-adventures
-on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grumpy-spider-games/pocket-book-adventures?refid=97319
The Mysterious Case of Dancing Mania: https://www.wackywheels.nl/escape-games/products/?edition=MG0008&variant=printed
Connected Clues: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/367197/connected-clues
Gutenberg: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/339958/gutenberg

Support us at https://www.patreon.com/boardgameblitz

This episode was sponsored by Grey Fox Games. Use the code 'GFGBLITZ2022' for 20% off non-exclusive items from their site: http://www.greyfoxgames.com/

For the full show notes visit our site at http://www.boardgameblitz.com/posts/333

"It is now time for the community to weigh in and decide whether WordPress should stop and refuel in this new port." —Leonardo Losoviz

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David talks with Leonardo Losoviz about The Block Protocol and why it might benefit WordPress to adopt it and allow more of the web to share and reuse blocks. Matt Mullenweg has expressed interest in taking this path.

Why This Is Important: Gutenberg, according to Matt, is "bigger than WordPress,", especially in the context of the Open Web. The Block Protocol is a way to create and share content across WordPress, half-WordPress, and non-WordPress sites, which supports the project's mission to democratize publishing.

Every week Post Status Excerpt will brief you on important WordPress news — in about 15 minutes or less! Learn what's new in WordPress in a flash. ⚡

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🔗 Mentioned in the show:

• Implications Of WordPress Joining The Block Protocol
• Making The Web Better With Blocks
• The Block Protocol
• Matt Mullenweg on Twitter
• Leonardo Losoviz (Twitter)
• David Bisset (Twitter)
• Post Status (Twitter)

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Gravity Forms is a powerful form builder for WordPress and the #1 choice for businesses and web professionals across the globe. Its vast array of features, intuitive drag-and-drop form editor, and extensive ecosystem of add-ons, ensure customers can design beautiful, intelligent, and accessible forms for any project requirement.

"I believe our community can make significant contributions to Gutenberg and the Block Editor." —Cory Miller

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory shares his experience among the 30+ individuals who attended the State of the Word in New York in person. David and Cory talk about how Matt presented himself, his views on the necessary ratio of community contributions to open source projects, Five for the Future, the next generation of leaders, and what it means to give back to the community and WordPress core.

Also: Cory hints at what Post Status will be doing in 2022 when it comes to giving back — along with how Post Status will encourage and assist people in contributing to the WordPress community.

Browse past episodes from all our podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe to them on your favorite players. Post Status' Draft, Comments, and Excerpt podcasts are on Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Castro, YouTube, Stitcher, Player.fm, Pocket Casts, and Simplecast. (RSS) 🎧

🔗 Mentioned in the show:

• YouTube: State Of The Word 2021
• GoDaddy Review And Timeline of State of the Word 2021
• The WP Minute (Audio + Transcript)
• David Bisset (Twitter)
• Cory Miller (Twitter)
• Post Status (Twitter)

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"The best documentation is written by people who are using it." —Milana Cap

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Milana Cap tells David about the stark reality of the near-overwhelming workload facing the WordPress Documentation Team. Currently, about four sponsored volunteers and fewer than 10 volunteers in total make up the Docs team — a team that is assigned to manage documentation for software that powers over 43% of the web. If you have ever complained about outdated documentation or a lack of documentation for WordPress, listen to this episode.

Also: Milana shared some encouraging projects and efforts — much of which is recent and associated with the upcoming WordPress 5.9 release. Writers "shadowing" developers could be one of the keys to improving the quantity and quality of documentation in the future.

Browse past episodes from all our podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe to them on your favorite players. Post Status' Draft, Comments, and Excerpt podcasts are on Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Castro, YouTube, Stitcher, Player.fm, Pocket Casts, and Simplecast. (RSS) 🎧

🔗 Mentioned in the show:

• Docs team handbook (if anyone wants to join)
• Developer Docs (DevHub)
• End user docs (also known as HelpHub in Make teams)
• Milana Cap (Twitter)
• David Bisset (Twitter)
• Post Status (Twitter)

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