Over on the Intel Software Network, Lisa Hoover kindly referenced my end of year open source CMS piece as part of her Open Source Trends to Watch in 2011 piece. Go take a look, she talks about other vertical spaces too.
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In what might be my personal new record for CMSWire article length, here’s my look at the open source CMS (and related) space, after 22 projects and vendors responded to my survey where I asked them to look back over 2010 and forward to 2011. If this is an industry whose products you use (I bet you do) or that you’re part of, I think this is worth a look. There’s some definite trends in the answers: In this piece I look at just how broken international e-commerce is, even between two relatively friendly countries who are each other’s largest trading partners, and discuss the fact that companies have to find better solutions or they will continue losing significant sales over the issue: Personalization for personalization’s sake is useless. In this piece I take a look at a new gift suggestion tool coming from Etsy, as an example of what one organization is doing to take data offered by platforms like Facebook and create a personalized experience that benefits Etsy (in terms of potential increased sale commissions), the user (in terms of helping them find gifts for the people who have them stumped), and Etsy’s sellers (in terms of potential increased sales). Where does your organization’s personalization potential lie? This month’s look at what the open source content management and related projects have been up to in November, and are planning for December: In this piece, I look at how to avoid annoying your users to the point of opening the door for competitors to steal your lunch: In this article, I take a look at HTML5′s Geolocation API and some of the issues that need to be considered when it comes to user privacy: In this piece I posit that the mobile platform is offering software development companies a chance to grow and evolve while funding that growth. And for you Angry Birds addicts, I use its founding company as an example: In this piece I talk about networking and promotion for writers, both how to do it in person and “off-line” as well as how to use social networking in a way that won’t drown people in annoying spam. Much of this piece applies to anyone who’s running a small business, especially if you’re a bit shy and awkward like many writers are. Networking and Promotion: Blending Old Tools and New I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on what I might have left out. |
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So You Want To Be A Writer
So, you want to be a writer. That makes you, in a way, a public figure, which means that people love to take cheap shots and send what they consider vile attacks. I just got this email and honestly it’s so over the top that I can’t help but find it kind of funny (and rather misinformed since the person among other things seems to think I’m involved with the Fedora Project).
Anyway, I’ve removed the person’s alias, but you want to be a writer? You will occasionally (or regularly) get stuff like this. I take no responsibility for the swearing and other vitriol, I’m not going to edit this:
Jewsus friggin’ christ….
I thought the vile evil retards at micro-cephali-soft were bad…
I tried to download ISO linux discs as per instructions in your book upon which my local library so foolishly wasted tax revenues, and it was a total cluster-fuck.
Congratulations to both you and the imbeciles who run the fedoraproject.org site. You’ve managed to outdo all other morons who operate such sites and endeavors.
Every time I even accessed that piece of slime-mold shit all I got were take-over ads for some sort of crappy printer driver shit-ware.
How do individuals like yourself maintain an income large enough to feed , clothe and house yourselves?
HINT: courtesy the fact that individuals such as myself who demand some level of useful performance no longer are running much of this world.
Proof: look what’s currently infesting the Oval Office.
The lunatics have taken over the asylum.
I hope the next time you take your damn dogs for a hike—–without any leashes on them so they can destroy any defenseless vulnerable wildlife no-doubt and before you could even begin to intervene, even if that were your m.o. which I strongly doubt, having had more than my fill of dog owners—-a rogue puma eats them right before your very eyes.
There’s a special place in hell for people like bill gates, the imbeciles promulgating this fedora crap, and the jobst/wozniak axis-of-evil.
Likely when you all get there you won’t find Theodore Kaczynski ( rapidly becoming my personal hero ) there or in any other part of hell.
Have fun sticking each other in the asshole with your pitchforks for the rest of eternity.