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College Newspapers to Get WordPress Mojo

It looks like some college newspapers are about to head in the same direction as many well-known ones, and in somewhat the same direction as the White House. CoPress is a new company that offers managed hosting and training for college newspapers interested in tranistioning from expensive proprietary content management systems to WordPress. Many newspapers, forced to slash costs in a punishing environment, are looking to open source and free content management systems, and quite a few of them are reporting significant cost savings. Why shouldn't the trend extend to college newspapers?


Publishers Are Switching to Drupal, Cost Savings Reported

Open source content management system (CMS) Drupal, is gaining many new types of users, but, as I've noted before, publishers, in particular, should look into it due to the cost savings that it offers over proprietary publishing systems. Part of my conviction on that front comes from the fact that OStatic runs on Drupal, as do publications such as InfoWorld, The Onion, and FastCompany. Now there are some interesting data points on Drupal trickling in from publishers using Drupal, and publishing industry analysts.?


Open Source Skills As a Job Seeker's Key Differentiator

We've done several posts on how open source skills can arm a college graduate looking for tech work, or a recently laid off worker, with powerful calling cards for finding employment. From working for commercial open source companies to working on open source-focused divisions at big companies such as Yahoo!, skills with tools such as PHP, Hadoop, and open source content management system platforms can really differentiate a tech job seeker from the pack.?

TwitterJobSearch, oDesk, Elance and many other sites are good places to look for open source work. Today, I noticed this post from Dries Buytaert, founder of the Drupal open source content management system (which OStatic runs on), showing very favorable employment trends for people with Drupal skills.?



OStatic Buffer Overflow

Ubuntu newbie guide. Pre-installation tips, post-installation techniques, and more.

Open source usability: Joomla! vs. WordPress. A head-to-head comparison of content managers.

What Obama could learn from Mozilla. How can we focus our government on policies, not politics? Mozilla has clues.

The coming merger of netbooks and handhelds. With Android moving into netbooks, should we expect synergy between netbooks and handhelds?

Firefox 3.1: Not coming until the second quarter? TraceMonkey tests and fixes still loom. Will it ship with it?



OpenSourceCMS: You Take the Wheel of Top Content Management Systems

In recent years, free, open source content management systems (CMS) have become very powerful tools for building, deploying and managing web sites, blogs and more. You're probably familiar with some of the big names in this arena, including Drupal (which Ostatic is based on) and Joomla. OpenSourceCMS is a site that lets you put on your administrator gloves and try top, free CMS tools for free. You can spend hours as an administrator, and watch free video tutorials for CMS systems targeted for blogs, e-commerce sites, and other site categories. Check out the details here.?


Open Source Platforms Arrive On IBM's Most Vulnerable List

IBM Internet Security Systems is out with its X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report. This is an extremely exhaustive look at security vulnerabilities in both proprietary and open source software. It highlights trends in malware and phishing, and ranks vendors, open source projects, and even languages by security breach disclosures. With the rise of open source software, including much more adoption in enterprises, it's no surprise to see some open source platforms arrive on the top ten most vulnerable list, including one in second place, sandwiched between Apple and Microsoft. Which open source projects qualified--for the first time?


Free Online Content Management and Web Development Tours

Open sourcers are increasingly producing web-based and software-as-a-service applications. This calls for developers to use top-notch content management systems, and deploy strong web development skills. To improve your odds of doing both well, see my post on OpenSourceCMS and W3Schools on WebWorkerDaily. OpenSourceCMS gives you an admin log-in for many top PHP- and MySQL-based CMS systems--from Drupal to Joomla. You can build content and see how it will look, free. Likewise, W3Schools is free, and lets you input tags and instructions, publishing results on-site, as you work with HTML, JavaScript, PHP, AJAX, Flash, and more. More at WebWorkerDaily.