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New hardware may be game changer for video game sector: This is a fairly non-descript article about the current state of gaming consoles and the introduction of next-gen consoles this year.  But it included this bit, which bothers me a little: Today, the Xbox 360 is entering its eighth year on the market, while the [...]

Google Docs vs. Microsoft Word: An Even Matchup?: I share this guy’s opinion: Is Microsoft Word actually better than Google Docs and Zoho Docs? For my work, the answer is “yes.” The others simply can’t compete, not by a long shot. […] the software developers behind cloud-based platforms such as Google Docs don’t seem to [...]

There’s standard advice for the soon-to-be-married that goes, “Make sure you like your future in-laws, because you’re marrying them too.” How does this relate to CMS?  I’ll explain – When people are buying a CMS, they tend to concentrate on specific functional features – things like content modeling, workflow, permissions, the UI, etc.  Additionally, they’ll [...]

I’ve been talking to people lately about why there are so few CMS in either Rails (Ruby) or Django (Python). There certainly are a few, but I spend more time looking at content management than most people, and I can think of only four offhand (meaning, without using Google): Radiant and Railfrog for Rails Ellington and [...]

German city says OpenOffice shortcomings are forcing it back to Microsoft: A city in Germany tried to switch to OpenOffice for the last five years, and is now switching back to Microsoft Office. Freiburg has been using OpenOffice and Microsoft Office 2000 side-by-side since 2007 and has been very restrictive issuing licenses of new Microsoft [...]

Data Barns in a Farm Town, Gobbling Power and Flexing Muscle: This article details the sometimes contentious relationships data centers have with their “host” cities. Data centers are often out in rural areas in order to take advantage of cheap electricity.  This means you have a massive powerhouse (in the physical, economic, and legal sense) [...]

There’s an aspect of content management that gets completely taken for granted (yes, even more so than the core content geography).  It’s something so inherent to CMS that you rarely acknowledge that it’s even there.  But I promise that it’s one of the first benefits you found when you fired up your first CMS so [...]

Evernote finally creates business version: I genuinely love Evernote – I have a paid subscription, even.  But, just I don’t get this. […] Evernote has added an administrative console where administrators can control access and sharing to company notebooks. It has also made it simple to add new users with a business email address. What’s [...]

Content Modeling: A Master Skill: Rachel Lovinger did a really nice job on this content modeling article over at ALA earlier in the year. I like how she breaks it down into three sub-competencies. The assembly model:The way content creators will put individual content items together to make webpages, campaigns, documents, or other content products. [...]