How weblogs are flying under the radar of the Content Management
Giants
The term "Disruptive Technology" has always kinds irked me,
pretty much in the same way the word "Proprietary Technology" has
in the past. The problem I had with "Proprietary Technology" is
that I've spent a lot of my professional career on the "Open...."
side of the fence. I am a firm beliver in "Open Systems" (in all
its historic forms; UNIX, Client-Server, Internet Protocols etc.),
so describing OpenLink Software (even the company name gives me
away!) product as being proprietary is really difficult, especially
as I believe in the concept of our value proposition being the only
thing that should actually be proprietary.
Back to "Disruptive Technology". Prior to reading the piece
below
[Blogs
as Disruptive Tech - How weblogs are flying under the radar of the
Content Management Giants]
I had similar conflicts, and strangely enough I simply
forgotthat old principle of physics which states; "for every
action, there is an equal and opposite reaction".
Disruputive technology in most use cases describes how new
technologies and paradigms create market inflections amongst
vendors in a particular market segment. Ironically, this is the
basis of everything I do (spot new technologies and paradigms and
then look at how they can be used produce valuable solutions). It
doesn't mean that I can't deliver "Market Disruptive Technology" to
my customers in such a way that it minimizes the"Disruption"to
their existing IT infrastructures (at least to the degree this is
feasible in a given situation).
For what it's worth I blogged this piece using a "Disruptive"
utlility called Mozblog
(I've had some problems using this plugin until now).
The keys to getting this Blog plugin working are as
follows:
- Download and follow instructions at: http://mozblog.mozdev.org/installation.html
- Use the Moveable Type or Other option when setting up your Blog
Server's XML-RPC endpoint
That's it.