Dylan Tweney

The numbers aren’t pretty. Fifty-three percent of companies will have deployed new content-management systems by the end of this year. Given the expense involved — a high-end CMS like Vignette can cost upwards of $100,000 for the software alone, plus another multiple of that in installation costs —

Annalee Newitz: “Internet Archive volunteers have put about 9,000 public domain books on its site, and now they’re driving around the United States in a high-tech bookmobile where people can link to the archive via satellite, download the book of their choice, print it out, and take it home to read.

Xian approvingly quotes this lucid comment by Peterme, regarding this week’s Berkeley J-school panel on weblogs: “In these kinds of discussions, the question, “Are weblogs journalism?” inevitably comes up, demonstrating how people confuse form and content. Weblogs are a form (not a medium… the Web i

“There was a loop with journalists, businesses, advertisers, readers,” says John Battelle. “Magazines in the late ’90s were not rewarded for doing negative stories. Everybody’s stock portfolios were going up, and what sold magazines were positive stories about the geniuses that were making everybody

Companies are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on software to manage their websites and other documents — and getting dubious returns. There’s got to be a better way. The numbers aren’t pretty. According to a Jupiter survey of chief information officers at companies with more than $50 milli

Side by side illustrations of covers from Vanity Fair, Vogue, Playboy, and even Good Housekeeping prove the point: magazine covers ain’t what they used to be. (thanks, BoingBoing)

Sergey Brin, one of Google’s founders, tends to stay out of the limelight. That’s why I was so interested to see Jon Udell’s summary of Brin’s talk at the InfoWorld Web Services conference. Udell asked Brin about RDF and the semantic web — here’s what he said: “Look, putting angle brackets around th

I wrote a feature for CIO Magazine about intrusion detection systems. (alternative URL from the tweney.com archive)

eWeek reported earlier this month on a new library built, with HP’s help, in Cerritos, Calif. It’s loaded with Internet connections, places to set up your laptop, info kiosks, and “intelligent building” features. “We wanted to create a library everyone would enjoy as a gathering place for the commun

I’ve moved things around on my site, so everything that was formerly www.tweney.com is now dylan.tweney.com — including this weblog (whose new address is https://dylan.tweney.com/weblog). Please update your bookmarks & XML syndication links. NOTE: I believe that webmasters should do everything in th

posthoc, Susan MacTavish Best’s outstanding San Francisco guide, is back — and now it’s a weblog. SMB and friends have been posting restaurant reviews and other SF related goodies for a few months now. Down to earth, opinionated, entertaining reviews of where to eat, drink, relax, have fun: All grea

Now you’re talking, Walt: Mossberg reviews Roomba, a robotic vacuum cleaner (subscription required). This little guy, shaped like a UFO, rolls around on your floor in random patterns, bouncing off of obstacles, vacuuming as it goes. There are some drawbacks: Bits of string and such can choke it, and