"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:
There are a couple new articles at ComputerWorld that peaked my interest and may be something you too will be interested in reading. The first is an opinion piece by Frank Hayes, "Frankly Speaking: Rewiring Respect for IT".
Why don’t IT people get more respect? On this Labor Day, things are actually looking better for people who work in corporate IT. Budgets aren’t quite so tight. Companies are hiring. Interesting IT projects are getting a green light. But when it comes to how our fellow employees think about us, IT work is a train wreck. Users break the rules we set up, ignore the processes we develop and generally act as if we’re clueless in what we do.
On a different subject, Bruce A. Steward has written an article to remind us that supporting our customers is more than just improving the business process.
You may have not have been able to access CMS Report Friday evening and early Saturday morning. That's because I've moved CMSReport.com over to a new shared hosting account with a hosting provider I'm associated with via a reseller plan. The same host provider I've been using using all summer.
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:
I have been struggling to decide what I think about the Wikipedia/WikiScanner episode that played out last week. Collaboration Loop had some thoughts of their own in the article, The Death of Wikipedia?
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.
eWeek has a slideshow of Microsoft's top 25 open source projects.