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I had the opportunity to make a series of "lightning presentations" on web development platforms at an October 2016 Creatives Meets Business mee

A recently revealed vulnerability in the Wordpress auto-update process could potentially have resulted in widespread intrusions on websites that were running Wo

The Internet experience today isn't the same as the Internet experience in 2002, when Peter Merholz coined the term "blog." Digital convergence since then means that primary media sources have moved online, the Internet is big media, and big media is big money.

I was live tweeting day 2 of this year's International Symposium on Online Journalism (#ISOJ) - a little chaotic, but here are my live tweets. Big takeaway: there was little about anxiety over legacy business model failure, more focus on how things are working - emphasizing that they're working. This is a great time for news content and delivery innovation.

Real Magic Isn’t Perfect

When explaining my website hosting/development work to non-techies, one of my favorite analogies is real estate. A web developer will help you build a website, like a contractor helps you build a house. And a web host provides a place to put it, like finding land for your house to sit on. The analogy will stretch pretty far. Websites have addresses (domain names), and can receive mail. They have ongoing costs like utilities (bandwidth instead of water/gas), and they age just like objects in the physical world too. A website, like a house, needs maintenance.

Until seven or eight years ago, the extent of my support of the cooperative economy was occasional grocery shopping at the nearby food co-op and replenishing my sock supply at the local REI store.

I came to work for Polycot after having been in online community management and customer service with two companies that had previously hired this team for their websites.

Over the 10+ years that I've been writing source code and working with source control management (SCM) systems like git, subversion, and cvs, I've developed a set of best practices which boost the

We frequently get inquiries from outsourcing companies boasting of hundreds of developers ready to work on our projects at a moment’s notice. This collaboration, they claim, would enable us to focus on our “core business vectors and streamline [our] development process.” When one such company continued with repeated contacts, even after my polite rejections, I felt forced to lay it all out for them. Here was my response.

CMS stands for content management system which is just a fancy way for saying a web site that normal people can change without the need for web experts.  A content management system will look