“We’re taking the “W” back this year” said Matt Mullenweg of WordPress.  Despite the fact it was a rainy Sunday, I went to Sun Microsystems office’s near Grand Central to attend Word Camp New York.  The room where Word Camp was held packed with people who crossed the wide spectrum of blogging. Some were old skool and there were a few who just started out. There were tech bloggers, non-profit bloggers, corporate bloggers and personal bloggers.

There was a lot of information given out today, so I just note the highlights.

• The next version of WordPress (2.7) will be released in November 2008.
• 2009 will be the Year of Themes
• Buddy Press, social networking plug-in for WordPress blog is coming.
• Aaron Brazell of Technosailor gave a talk about growing your blog. You can check out his presentation, “Making it To The Big Leagues”.
• There was a presentation on Kaltura, an open source video platform.
• Jeremy Clarke of Global Voices gave a presentation on how to protect your site from hacks, and to be efficient by using plug-ins.

I didn’t stay for the end, but I learned a lot in a short amount of time.  I also ran into Marshall, Margaret, Jane, Sanford, and Janera.