Today was the first day of WordCamp 2007.I had a really good time and meet some really cool people, Stephanie Booth and Lorna Dietz! I want to recognize that all the live-blogged articles below are ALL Stephanie! I don;t want to get into any trouble! There are a bunch of Word Camp pictures on Flickr!

Here are the sessions that my new friend, Stephanie Booth, live-blogged.

• Dan Kuykendall, Podcasting and podPress
• John C. Dvorak and Om Malik: Blogs vs. Journalism
• Lorelle VanFossen, Kicking Ass Content Connections
• Jeremy Wright, Im in ur blogz grabbin’ ur kash! Blog Monetization
• Matt Cutts, Whitehat SEO Tips for Bloggers

I really enjoyed Day 1, plus my exclusive interview with Matt Mullenweg and Andy Skelton! I am uploading the episode as we speak! I am hoping to have Apple Universe #23 up by tomorrow! Don’t forget that tomorrow I will we recording Apple Universe #24 with Mike Adams, Charles from WordPress Podcast and hopefully Douglas Bell! Stay tuned for Word Camp 2007: Day 2!

Designing the Obvious explores the character traits of great Web applications and uses them as guiding principles of application design so the end result of every project instills customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Based on the book of the same name, hear from the author himself on how to create the best website, blog, or application possible.

Session Leader: Robert Hoekman, Jr.

WordPress blog: The Blog

Robert Hoekman, Jr., is a professional Interaction Designer and Usability Specialist who has worked with Go Daddy Software, Macromedia, Adobe, United Airlines, Cisco Systems, and countless others to provide superior user experiences to a wide range of audiences. His newest book, Designing the Obvious, focuses on seven guiding principles of great Web-based software and how to leverage them in any real-world project.

Have you wanted to give back in some way to WordPress, but just don’t know where to begin?

Lloyd Budd and Mark Jaquith are two Open Source veterans who will be covering how you can pitch in with various aspects of WordPress.org whether or not you can spell PHP. WordPress is a product of the hundreds of people who have pitched in before you, so if you’ve considered giving back to the community this session is for you.

Session Leader: Lloyd Budd

WordPress blog: A Fool’s Wisdom

Bio coming soon.

Session Leader: Mark Jaquith

WordPress blogs: Tempus Fugit, Mark on WordPress

Bio coming soon

I am very sorry, but my camera is acting very weird right now and all my pictures on my Flickr account are really messed up! I am very sorry once again!

Are you interested in making money from your blog?

Jeremy Wright is the CEO of b5media, a WordPress-based blog network that has experimented with dozens of types of monetization and ads and will be sharing his experience with the WordCamp community of what works and what doesn’t.

Session Leader: Jeremy Wright

WordPress blog: Ensight

Jeremy Wright is a longtime serial entrepenur who has been involved with the business, programming, and IT aspects of the technology industry for nearly a decade. He has focused on communication-orientated ventures and reguarally consults on blogging, communication, IT, and time management. Jeremy is the author of Blog Marketing, a business book on blogging as well as as the President of b5media, a prominent blog network. Jeremy lives in New Brunswick, Canada with his two children, Evan and Alex, and his wife, Shannon.

Lorelle VanFossen is one of the most prominent writers in the WordPress community with a knack for breaking complex topics down in a way anyone can understand.

She also knows a thing or two about building traffic and connection with audience, having built her own blog to well over a million and a half pageviews. Lorelle will be talking about strategies for connecting to your audience, writing, and of course kicking ass.

Session Leader: Lorelle VanFossen

WordPress blog: Lorelle on WordPress

There are many sides to Lorelle VanFossen. One is a public speaker, instructor, writer, and consultant on web writing, web design, and blogging, especially working with WordPress. Another is as a transient traveling the world as part of the duo team of VanFossen Productions, professional nature photographers and writers presenting workshops and programs on travel, writing, and nature photography. You can frequently find Lorelle and her husband, Brent, and their writing and photography in many national and international magazines, newspapers, ezines, and blogs such as Blog Herald, Outdoor and Nature Photography, Shutterbug, Photo Techniques, The Mountaineer, Jerusalem Post, Phenomenal Women of the Web, and Weblog Tools Collection.

My good friend Douglas Bell will be recording his podcast PreviewCast, at Word Camp! If you are at Word Camp, come upstairs and enjoy the show!

Last year Om Malik lead a discussion on what bloggers could learn from journalism, and vice versa. This year he teams up with noted contrarian John C. Dvorak to take the discussion to the next level.

Session Leader: John C. Dvorak

WordPress blog: Dvorak Uncensored

Current PC Magazine Columnist writing Inside Track, an essay and a weekly online column. These articles are licensed around the world. Also a weekly columnist for Dow-Jones Marketwatch, Info! (Brazil) and BUG Magazine (Croatia). Previously a columnist for Forbes, Forbes Digital, PC World, MacUser, PC/Computing, Barrons, Smart Business and other magazines and newspapers. Former editor and consulting editor for Infoworld. Has appeared in the New York Times, LA Times, SF Examiner, Vancouver Sun. Was on the start-up team for CNet TV as well as ZDTV. At ZDTV (and TechTV) was host of Silicon Spin for four years doing 1000 live and live-to-tape TV shows. Also was on public radio for 8 years. Written over 4000 articles and columns as well as authoring or co-authoring 14 books.

2004 Award winner of the American Business Editors Association’s national gold award for best online column of 2003. That was followed up by an unprecedented second national gold award from the ABEA in 2005, again for the best online column (for 2004).

Session Leader: Om Malik

WordPress blog: GigaOM, and many more.

Om Malik, is the founder of GigaOmniMedia, Inc. and executive editor for GigaOM.com. Before launching his own publishing venture, Om was a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. For more info on Om, see the Om Malik extended bio.