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Archive for October, 2002

October 28th, 2002

[Digitalisierung ii|: Zedler, Universallexikon von 1732. Diese Version des Zedler bietet zwei Zugriffsmöglichkeiten:

  1. die Navigation in den im Grafikformat digitalisierten Buchseiten (Anm.: Das erste Stichwort ist ca. alle 20 Seiten explizit angezeigt, dann muss innerhalb der Bilder "geblättert" werden) und
  2. einen Index mit allen Stichwörter des Zedler. Ein Klick auf das Stichwort führt direkt zur Buchseite (siehe 1.) (Version 1.2 vom 18.06.02).

[The Cartoonist][Der Schockwellenreiter]



October 27th, 2002

Da lob ich mir doch den unkoordiniert wirkenden Support von Userland.
Tales of CMS woe. Kelly Lakas writes about the challenges of obtaining support for commercial
content management systems. This tale of woe covers not one, but two vendors, and highlights
the issues facing many projects. To quote: While Support can be a difficult issue with all
applications and vendors, it becomes a staggering weight when dealing with content management tools.
I attribute this to the fact that most content management applications are not really ìout of the box.
î Most are ìbuy it, then build on it, hack into it, wrench it and code itî to fit your needs.
(And remember that any change you make with your own development team is not going to be supported by the
vendor ñ but you still have to pay full maintenance.) [Column Two]



October 26th, 2002

Wieder ein Weblog als Business-Anwendung. Allaire’s New Blog. Jeremy Allaire has joined “the ranks of what Jon Udell calls CXO Blogs” with a mixed personal and professional blog “about media, communications and applications over the Internet.”

According to one of his first entries: Over the past six-months, like many other netizens, I’ve become addicted to browsing and subscribing to blogs.

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October 26th, 2002

How to add security to K-Log publishing. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]