WordPress
What the hell is happening at Automattic (part 2)?
The CEO of Automattic has declared war on WP Engine as a bad citizen of the WordPress ecosystem. What the hell is going on?
blog platforms
One last word on Movable Type (and Open Source)
Anil Dash, 2007 [https://movabletype.org/news/2007/12/movable_type_open_source.html]: > As of today, and forever forward, Movable Type is open source. Daiji Hirata, 2013 [https://movabletype.org/news/2013/07/license_change_on_movable_type_6.html] > Starting with Movable Type 6, registration for
digital tools
Markdown versus CommonMark: the ambiguity and clarity dilemma
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/09/crossroads.jpg] The “standard Markdown” controversy seems to be over and done. I was essentially offline for the weekend, and I came back to find that what was “Standard Markdown” has now become “CommonMark [http://commonmark.org]“, respecting Markdown
digital journalism
Writers, Coders and the Markdown landgrab
If Standard Markdown (now CommonMark) wants to replace Markdown, it needs to acknowledge that it's not just a markup standard for coders.
kevin marks
IndieWeb - Kevin Marks on the web that will win (LeWeb 13)
Can we reclaim the open web from the closed social silos? Kevin Marks thinks so…
Laura James on Open Data, Source and Knowledge
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/04/laura.jpg] Dr Laura James [https://twitter.com/#!/lauriej], foundation coordinator of the Open Knowledge Foundation [http://www.okfn.org/] What is open data? asks Dr James. They have the Open Definition [http://opendefinition.org/]. Open data is open.
content
Content Strategy, Like Lightning...
Simon Land – Magus [http://www.magus.co.uk/activestandards/] (sponsor) They want to help us manage the quality of content. Over half of websites have four plus errors per page. State of the art CMOS? You can’t lock everything down. The Magus approach is to patrol your live content
audioboo
#media140 : Hemlock & AudioBoo
Hemlock [http://hemlock-kills.com/] is an open-source environment for building social applications, with a gaming focus. There’s a showcase of uses [http://hemlock-kills.com/showcase] on the site. [AudioBoo](http://audioboo.fm/) – a low coast, efficient way of generating audio reports. The platform collects pictures, geodata and so on
berlin
Web 2.0 Expo Berlin: The Wednesday Keynotes
Leisa Reichelt – Drupal.org redesign How do you design for a large Open Source Community? That was the problem Leisa Reichelt [http://www.disambiguity.com/] faced when commissioned to do the redesign of the Drupal.org [http://www.drupal.org/] site. “You can’t do it behind closed doors,” she
movable type
Movable Type is Open Source!
The Open Source version of Movable Type [http://www.movabletype.org/2007/12/movable_type_open_source.html] has just been released.
Blogging
Movable Type 4 goes beta - and open source
What a great morning for news. I’ve been using Movable Type since version 2 back in 2003 and, despite some flirtations with WordPress, I’ve stayed pretty loyal. I’m now a professional user of it at work as well, as most of RBI’s blogs are run on
leweb
Le Web 3: Is Open Source Becoming Commercial?
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/319481680/]Apparently, I’m one of the usual suspects. Here I sit, a blogger working at a mainstream media company [http://www.rbi.co.uk/], and the open source advocate is telling me that we all hate the idea of letting go of traditional