Joel doesn’t know what he does and Chris can’t use words. Despite these difficulties we managed to answer a question about photography on the web and talk about the success of Joel’s book crowdfunding.

Let us know your favorite summer cocktail recipes! Hopefully ones to keep us cool in the hot New York and Canadian summer.

Quotes

• “Do apples grow on maple trees?”
• “What I really want is just setting myself up and setting the book up to be a success in the long run.”
• “You’re not here to be a blogger, you’re here to be a photographer. Might as well just have fun doing that.”

Talking Points

• Support Joel’s book, Scolding the Winds
• How to crowdfund a book
• 500px

Our episode this week features a special guest! Our blog poster, podcast uploader, tweet sender Lindsay (that’s me!) is on to talk about her experiences with Patreon as a crowd-funding tool and what makes it different from other crowd-funding sites out there. Joel also talks some more about how he’s funding his next book with crowd-funding

Quotes

• “Don’t lock content behind reward tiers. It doesn’t work as well as you think it will.”
• “We literally just decided whether we would keep recording or not and you got to hear it.”
• “Everything’s just a long slow march to the grave, it’s not really worth it to shine a spotlight on myself.”
• “Are you like a timelord or something?”

Talking Points

• Support Joel’s Book – Scolding the Winds
• John Gruber on watching video games
• Derek Sivers: How to Start a Movement
• Patreon Raises $15 Million
• Lindsay’s YouTube channel
• Lindsay’s Patreon
• Lindsay on Twitter – @Cithryth

Last week was very off topic, but this week we’re back to serious business and answering questions. We discuss what you can do to protect your WordPress powered site from being hacked, like password security and choosing your plugins carefully. We also touch on changes in Google’s algorithms how speeding tickets are a rite of passage to adulthood.

Quotes

• “The minute you add a plugin or paid theme you are introducing a big risk to your site.”
• “Even the big guys get hacked.”
• “The longer the password is the more secure it is.”
• “The easiest thing you can do right now is make sure all your passwords are long and secure.”

Talking Points

• 3 more tips to boost WordPress security
• The Greatest Traffic Source on Planet Earth
• Relevant XKCD on Password Strength
• Scolding the Winds on Inkshares
• BlastOff
• BruteProtect
• Limit Login Attempts

In this episode we learned that recording on a Monday night with no specific discussion topic leads to silliness. We answer questions that no one asked like what is the difference between football and futbol? What’s the Canadian version of “the rains in Spain fall mainly in the plains”?

Despite the silliness Chris does manage to discuss his new WordPress plugin, BlastOff, for e-mailing within WordPress.

Quotes

• “This means I can use a rocket ship as a logo so I think it’s worth it.”
• “My brain hasn’t been in active use for the past one and a half minutes. That’s just been words.”
• “We have both actually never listened to this show.”

Talking Points

• BlastOff
  
• Send us questions!