Weblog run by the organisers of the Open Source Content Management Conference, with discussion and ideas about how to run such an event.
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Wiki is a great idea - readable/writeable web pages that anyone can edit instantly in their browser window. But like many good ideas on the net, it only takes one idiot to vandalise a wiki and ruin it for everyone. WriteTheWeb asked one wiki webmaster for his thoughts on making the best of wiki, and keeping out the vandals.
Web pages are getting too fat and bloated to be useful to anyone. And that's despite all the high bandwidth connections everyone's supposed to be using.
The growing importance of XML and XHTML leave plain old HTML looking somewhat out-of-date, according to this article at IDG.net.
Cameron Barrett announced a new mailing list to discuss Content Management Systems.
In his latest Alertbox column, web usability advocate Jakob Nielsen declares the "end of web design" and calls for web designers to tone down distinct design.
Jimmy Guterman writes in Inside that large media publishers are dropping monolithic systems like Vignette StoryServer and going for home-grown content management instead.
mod_dav has been released, providing an Apache-based implementation of WebDAV, a set of tools for remotely editing and managing files on Web servers.
The Magi Project is an innovative project to create a combined personal web server and messaging system that enables the sharing and synchronization of information across desktop, laptop and palmtop devices.
Userland Software have added
Yeah, I write the Web. And I write about the Web in lots of different formats, too.