I’m trying out NewsMonster on my home machine. Seems pretty cool so far. I like the UI. A large number of feeds is much more manageable using its folder metaphor than Radio’s flat list. I’m sure it’s got a lot of nifty features I haven’t stumbled onto yet. If someone just wants to aggregate feeds or doesn’t mind that the aggregator isn’t integrated with their blogging tool, this is just the ticket. Note that if you are using Blogger, you can right click on a news item and post to your blog. Maybe someone’s got an add-in that does the same for Radio.

Entopia Introduces Enterprise Social Networks Analysis for K-Bus. Entopia, Inc. unveiled Entopia Enterprise Social Networks Analysis, a diagnostic tool that enables managers to optimize information flow. By combining Entopia’s dynamic expertise location with its visualization techniques, Entopia’s latest application identifies the social networks within the enterprise related to a specific topic. These “people maps” illustrate the subject matter experts, information bottlenecks and disconnected communities with an enterprise.[Gilbane Report News]

IBM polishes the portal. IBM is catching up with traditional portal vendors such as Plumtree Software, thanks to a portal framework that combines a scalable application server, programs from IBM-owned Lotus Development, and homegrown and third-party portlets — Java-based Web components that make it… [cms~wire]

William Henry Channing

Rev. Hallman read this a few weeks ago and it really struck me. William Henry Channing was William Ellery Channing’s nephew, BTW.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common–this is my symphony. — William Henry Channing

EMC Buys Documentum. Execs at storage vendor EMC had been hinting for some time that the company was going to become a software player. Well, they accomplished it in one fell swoop by buying Documentu… [CMSWatch Trends and Features]

I was surprised at this acquisition. I’m hoping ECM will sink some cash into Documentum’s QA and support areas which are probably universally underserved among software vendors.

Open Source Moves Beyond Software

Open Source Moves Beyond Software. Open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. The era when collaboration replaces the corporation is coming. By Thomas Goetz from Wired magazine…The Internet is open source’s great enabler, the communications tool that makes massive decentralized projects possible. Intellectual property, on the other hand, is open source’s nemesis: a legal regime that has become so stifling and restrictive that thousands of free-thinking programmers, scientists, designers, engineers, and scholars are desperate to find new ways to create.[Wired News]

Content software scramble ahead?. <CMSWire> This is a good article describing some of the impact of the Documentum acquisition by EMC and how the ECM market is going to be shaping and shifting in the coming months. Future acquisitions by other storage and infrastructure… [cms~wire]

I agree. A good overview and some insight on how it might affect the rest of the market.

Open-source CMS survey results. Karim Yaici has published the results of the open-source CMS survey he conducted two months ago, as part of his dissertation. There are some interesting results in this, including: General Open Source Software Usage CMS Distribution Organization Sector and Use… [Column Two]

No Zope?! There’s something wrong there, especially with the high percentage of European respondents.