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.
"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:
Michael Silverman has a great article on The Content Wrangler regarding content management. The full title of the article is "Making The Business Case for Web Content Management: First, Admit You Have A Problem". The article is a one-stop place for explaining content management, why a business or organization should implement a content management system (CMS), and tips for choosing and implementing a CMS.
As always, it's nice to know the mojoPortal project is still live and well. The developers have just released mojoPortal 2.2.3.6. New features in this C# CMS include:
Is there anyone else disappointed that Linux.com and NewsForge.com now mirror each other in content? In the past I've called this the CMS déjà vu phenomenon. I'm not sure what to think about it. No wait, I do know what I think about the two sites basically merging into one...I don't like it. I really do miss the diversity in stories the two separate sites once offered.
Last week, Plone 3.0 was released. Plone is the content management system that runs on the Python-based Zope application server. The install of Plone is known to be very easy with Plone, Python, and Zope already packaged together in the installer.
Highlights to the new features/improvements in Plone 3.0 that the Plone team would like to stress via their announcement are listed below. I provided links to further details on those features I thought needed a better explanation or were just too exciting to leave alone.
As I mentioned last month, Packt Publishing is currently taking nominations for their Open Source Content Management Systems Award. Nominations are scheduled to close on August 31, 2007. With the deadline less then two weeks away, there is no better time then the present to head over to their site and promote your favorite open source CMS. Nominations are being accepted for each of the below categories (click to nominate):
Mike Gifford, Open Concept, commented here at CMS Report that his company had just posted a report they did for a client comparing three open source content management systems. His company needed to recommend to their client whether Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal would be a good replacement for their current CMS, Back-End (BE).