We Americans can be so stupid at times. In the country of "land of the free", we spend too much of our efforts working to restrict the freedom of others.
Tomorrow's legal fight may be over Web browser add-ons that let people avoid advertisements. These add-ons are growing in functionality and popularity, which has led legal experts we surveyed this week to speculate about when the first lawsuit will be filed.
Robert Cambell announced the expected release of CMS Made Simple 1.2 with the beta version expected in a couple weeks. After the CMSMS 1.2 release all focus will be on development of a 2.0 version of the CMS.
Some of the new features and enhancements can be expected in CMSMS 1.2:
I'm always amazed how Dilbert's creator, Scott Adams, always remains tuned to the geeky side of life. This time Adams uses the "What is Web 2.0?" question as a "powerful anti-meeting" spell. You gotta love it.
Due to copyright laws, I can't show the Dilbert comic strip here. However, if you click on the thumbnail in this post...you'll magically arrive to the correct page at Dilbert.com.
MySiouxFalls.com is a new and local online news source for the city where I currently reside, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. At first, I was not all that excited about the site and had not plan on mentioning the MySiouxFalls.com site in my writing. We've all seen these sites before, right? In fact, I would say that many of the visitors to this blog likely have designed or participated in building sites similar to MySiouxFalls.com. That's not to say that there are not some things from a content management perspective worth mentioning.
So, Python isn't really a CMS topic unless you're a Plone user. However, as my world at work slowly moves from Python to Java as the language of choice...I'll promote this underdog open source language anytime. From the IBM developerWorks site:
I just can't believe the year Drupal is having. There has been an explosion of Drupal sites almost everywhere you turn. Drupal is very popular with the masses in 2007. So popular in fact, that I wonder as with all things popular if we'll be seeing 2008 as the backlash year against Drupal as it has quickly evolves as a litmus test for open source CMS (one of my predictions for 2008).
The latest Drupal-based site to flash on the screen of my browser is the portal (currently in beta) for the European Commission sponsored Science, Education and Learning in Freedom (SELF ) project. The site aims to be a community-driven platform for the production and distribution of educational materials. Its sustainability depends on the building of a strong community of users and participants of the platform. The site may actually be live by the time you read this post.
"It can happen anywhere, at any time. You’re doing your job, minding your own business, and it suddenly dawns on you: you’re the company’s webmaster."
--Shane Schick, "Accidental webmasters rejoice – help is on the way", GlobeandMail.com, September 5, 2007
I found this article via Creative Commons' Science Commons. In the Financial Times article, "The irony of a web without science", James Boyle writes: