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With This Month’s Special Guest Panelist
Katie Keith, CEO of the Barn2 plugin shop and the joint host of the WP Product Talk podcast
@KatieKeithBarn2
@Barn2Plugins
@WPProductTalk
This Month’s Article That We Discussed During The Show
#1 – Woo Is Getting Louder: Inside Its New Marketing Strategy (The Repository by Rae Morey)
#2 – Tesla to fight California’s claim that it overhypes Autopilot
#3 – Why I’m Not Jazzed About FAIR (The WP Minute By Matt Medeiros)
#4 – Obsessed with the Coldplay kiss cam story? I was, too, until I realised the sinister truth at the heart of it (The Guardian by Arwa Mahdawi)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/22/coldplay-kiss-cam-ceo-hr-story-sinister-truth
Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on a viral app
#5 – The WP Community Collective Lays Foundations for Project Development and Board Expansion (The Repository Rae Morey)
#6 – Congress tries to outlaw AI that jacks up prices based on what it knows about you (by Iain Thomson)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/26/ai_surveillance_pricing/
Our Regular Monthly Panel
Heather Wilde Renze
https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherwilde/
@heathriel
Marc Benzakein
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-benzakein/
@MarcBenzak
Spencer Forman
https://www.linkedin.com/in/spencerforman/
@SpencerForman
Kurt von Ahnen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtvonahnen/
@KurtvonAhnen
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