October 27, 2005
Gilbane Conference Coming Soon
The Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies is about four weeks away. General information is here, and you can register here.
I am doing two things at the conference. I will be part of the panel, The Analysts Debate Content Technology and Trends, and will also be moderating a session on enterprise use of blogs and wikis entitled, Blogs & Wikis @ Work.
I am also looking forward to the keynotes:
Keynote Panel: New Technologies You Need to Consider for Content Management Strategies
The pace of information technology development continues to increase as organizations develop experience in implementing content applications, and as software vendors vie to incorporate their customer's feedback into product technologies ahead of the competition. As most enterprise applications become more content-oriented, content technology developments are coming from a broader base of suppliers and developers. This session will look at a couple of technologies relevant to content-oriented applications you may not be aware of, or may not think of in the context of content management strategies. Complementing this session are the analyst panel, and the Keynote debate on Enterprise use of Blog and Wiki technology. More info
Keynote Debate: Blog, Wiki, and RSS Technology - Are they Enterprise Ready? Applicable? Or a Passing Tempest in a Teacup?
Most of you have probably not seriously considered using these technologies in enterprise applications. Yet there are companies using these technologies for collaboration, knowledge management, and publishing applications in corporate environments, and there are vendors marketing products based on these to businesses like yours. Do these companies only represent the experimental fringe, or are they early adopters of technologies that will soon be part of every IT department's bag of tricks? In this session we'll take a look at the suitability of these for corporate use and hear from both skeptics and proponents of, for example enterprise or group blogs. You will come away from this session able to discuss these issues with your colleagues back in the office. More info
CTW Keynote Panel: Enterprise Panel on Best Practices & Implementation Strategies
Speakers in the keynote session for the CTW track complement the opening keynote on technology and trends by sharing their experiences with actually putting content technology to work. This panel features enterprise executives who will describe how their companies leverage the technologies discussed in the first keynote. We'll examine actual business and IT planning scenarios and identify the characteristics associated with successful content technology deployment. The panel sets the stage for the day's track of user success stories and case studies. More info
Posted by Bill Trippe at 12:11 PM
Priorities
The blogosphere is abuzz with the news about Harriet and the rumors about Scooter and Karl. (And, by the way, what sort of grown man allows himself to be called "Scooter"?) But all I can think about is Theo, which shows you where my priorities are. Given how vicious and stupid politics continues to be, I take my priorities to be a healthy sign.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 12:03 PM
October 26, 2005
A Few More Updates
So I have done a few things to the Web site itself, and have also added a blogs section to my CMS Resources page. I simultaneously added a blogroll here, and the goal will be to somehow keep them in sync. I ended up choosing Blogrolling.com for the blogroll, but it had trouble importing the OPML file from my newsreader, Onfolio. I don't know whose fault this is, though the Blogrolling.com web site was very open about the OPML import feature being beta. I will try it again next time I go to update it. I also need to play with my stylesheets.
If you have other suggestions for blogs, please post them here or email me. If you see your blog listed, I would appreciate the reciprocal link.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 2:38 PM
How about Them Sox?
Unfortunately I am a fan of the other Sox, but I have to marvel at the White Sox. And I love Jayson Stark's opening paragraph this morning.
On and on they went. To the 12th inning. To the 13th. To the 14th freaking inning.
I was just in Chicago last week, and people were clearly enjoying the White Sox' success. Even the Cubs fans I talked to seemed pretty happy about it--grudgingly, but happy nonetheless.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 12:04 PM
Grumble, Grumble
If you were looking for an audio book done by a company called New Millennium Audio and you came to this page, would you still send an email or call the number?
I hope the answer is no.
So why do I still get people calling and emailing me, sometimes more than one a day?
Posted by Bill Trippe at 12:00 PM | Comments (1)
October 22, 2005
CM Pros
I renewed my membership to CM Pros today, and added the organization's logo to my list of links.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 6:53 PM
October 21, 2005
Tech Blitz: Embracing Technology and Process Changes
I am going to be speaking at an upcoming SSP Fall Seminar, Tech Blitz: Embracing Technology and Process Changes. It is going be held November 8 in Philadelphia at PALINET Headquarters. PALINET is at 3000 Market Street, within easy walking distance of the Amtrak/commuter rail station at 30th and Market Sts. You can download the brochure here.
The early registration deadline is October 28th, and you can register online. After that date, seminar registration will be accepted on-site only, and higher fees apply.
You can also check the website for more detailed information about the other three Fall Seminars. Two are being given in Philadelphia on November 7th and 8th: The ROI of Discoverability and Tech Blitz: Embracing Technology and Process Changes. Two are being given in Washington, D.C., also on November 7th and 8th: Institutional Repositories: Opportunity or Threat and Copyright: Developments at the Core of Your Business.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 6:15 PM
October 18, 2005
More Traction for DITA
I have a brief article in the new Intelligent Enteprise magazine about DITA. One topic it takes on is the value of specialization:
So is DITA a panacea for companies producing product-support content? Adopting DITA does not eliminate the necessary first step of modeling content for XML, but it does anticipate the need for custom content models with a method called specialization. Consultants and experienced users admit that although "out-of-the-box" DITA is a great start, many organizations will end up specializing DITA for their own uses. Both Adobe and Autodesk rely on specialized versions of DITA, and other adopters will likely need to do the same.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 4:27 PM
October 15, 2005
Turntable with Built-in Preamp
So I have a few feet of vinyl that I would like to digitize, but I haven't had a functioning turntable in, oh, 15 years. I am looking at buying a Numark PT01 Portable Turntable.
Here's another turntable people have been looking at, the Audio-Technica AT-PL120 professional direct-drive turntable.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 11:07 PM | Comments (1)
Molly
I finished Ulysses. The third time, indeed, was the charm. The book famously ends with Molly Bloom's monologue.
O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and the pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 10:51 PM
October 12, 2005
Amazon's Sense of Humor
So I run this amazon.com ad at the bottom of the page. It is supposed to be keyword-based, with the keyword being "Red Sox." So until a few days ago, it always came up with Red Sox books. Then, a few days ago, every few impressions it lists two other books instead--my SVG book and a book on Blogs by Hugh Hewitt.
This is rife with irony, beginning with the fact that I think Hugh Hewitt might be the biggest doofus in the world. But doofus or no doofus, his book outsells mine by about 1000-1. Irony can be cruel indeed.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 5:29 PM | Comments (1)
October 10, 2005
Content Management and Manufacturing
Do you work in manufacturing and are you involved with implementing content management to support sales, marketing, and customer support? If so, I would like to talk with you about some writing I am doing. Please email me.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 9:22 PM
October 8, 2005
Must be a Maine Thing
And a good time was had by all.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 8:57 PM | Comments (2)
Really Strategies
Publishing technology consulting firm Really Strategies has built up a nice collection of articles from their ongoing newsletter. This issue they have an interesting article on "Rich Data" products. They have also started a blog, and it is quite good.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 2:30 PM
That's a Whimper, Not a Bang
Well, the Red Sox were certainly outplayed by the White Sox, weren't they?
Posted by Bill Trippe at 2:26 PM
October 6, 2005
Ajax
I spend a good chunk of any business day talking to people about technology. Every couple of years something new comes up and I suddenly find the topic being mentioned once in every conversation. Ajax is reaching that point. I have a brief blog entry on it over at Gilbane.com, and Jordan Frank has a very good article about it on XML.com.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 9:18 PM
October 2, 2005
Xena? Gabrielle?
Apparently I didn't get the memo stating we had a tenth planet in our solar system. Now, apparently, it has a moon.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 8:25 PM
