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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.?



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Digg, Dug, Buried: How Linux news disappears. Stories can be buried on sites such as Digg by abusive users with an axe to grind.

Will Novell, Dell turn to open-source M&A to grow? Novell has expressed interest in acquisitions, and Dell may have its eyes on the open source storage market.

Is the world now an open source society? Do open source and the Internet values on which it is based have a political dimension?

Getting the most out of OpenOffice.org Writer. It is, without a doubt, the most frequently used application in the OpenOffice.org suite.



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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?



Google Gears Powers Many Web Apps, Should Make it Into Firefox

Recently, we covered market research that found that almost half of open source developers are focused on the cloud. As web applications make more sense for everybody, and as the software-as-a-service model and its pay-as-you-go advantages become clearer, the trend is understandable. Today, I took note of this post on the Zoho blog, which has an interesting list of a few of the web-based applications--many of them commercial apps--that are based on Google Gears. Gears, of course, is Google's open source project, based on an open API, for enabling more powerful online and offline applications by adding useful features to browsers. It's still very young, released in 2007, but very influential on the web.


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Eeebuntu 8.10--Linux customized for Eee PCs--arrives.....

MySQL getting too big for its corporate britches?.....

Four simple but essential WordPress plug-ins.....

Mobile Wi-Fi router supports EVDO 3G, runs Linux.....

Myst Online game to be released fully open source.....



Kaltura Delivers an Open Source Video Plugin for WordPress

Kaltura has followed up on extending its open source video platform with a new open source interactive video plugin for WordPress, downloadable here. It facilitates interactive, collaborative video on blogs, including high-definition video, according to the company. It also allows for playing and editing of video remixes. You activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in the WordPress admin application. Here's what's under-the-hood, including some of the capabilities for working with high-def video.