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freshmeat.net announcements (Unix) -
1 days and 6 hours ago
WYMeditor is a Web-based WYSIWYM editor (What You See Is What You Mean) whose goal is to produce
XHTML-CSS compliant code. It lets the writer concentrate on the structure and the content of the
document, not on the visual layout. hr / strongLicense:/strong GNU General Public License (GPL) hr
/ strongChanges:/strongbr / This release has new translations, and new API calls: wrap() and
unwrap(). These new helpers bring support for more inline elements, such as acronym, abbreviation,
cite, code, span, etc. Many bugs have been fixed since beta1. The documentation and the test suite
have been improved. New example pages have been added. Last but not least, work is being done on a
WYMeditor-based RDFa editor. A proof of concept is available in the package or the repository
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freshmeat.net announcements (Global) -
1 days and 6 hours ago
WYMeditor is a Web-based WYSIWYM editor (What You See Is What You Mean) whose goal is to produce
XHTML-CSS compliant code. It lets the writer concentrate on the structure and the content of the
document, not on the visual layout. hr / strongLicense:/strong GNU General Public License (GPL) hr
/ strongChanges:/strongbr / This release has new translations, and new API calls: wrap() and
unwrap(). These new helpers bring support for more inline elements, such as acronym, abbreviation,
cite, code, span, etc. Many bugs have been fixed since beta1. The documentation and the test suite
have been improved. New example pages have been added. Last but not least, work is being done on a
WYMeditor-based RDFa editor. A proof of concept is available in the package or the repository
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InfoWorld: Top News -
1 days and 14 hours ago
div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"On Nov. 6, Sam Palmisano, chairman, president
amp; CEO of IBM, made an important speech entitled quot;The Smart Planet: The Next Leadership
Agendaquot; at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York City. That speech is only now getting
public press attention./pp align="right"a
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emphasize the significance of Palmisano#39;s speech, IBM took two-page ads out in numerous
newspapers, such as the New York Times and Washington Post, throughout the world. This can be seen
as public relations, self-promotion or the simple realization that the way out of this a
target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2008/102708-ceo-comment.html"global
financial mess/a requires a refocus of technology not on the consumer, but on corporate
business./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"strong[ Just how severe is the impact of the economy on
IT? Find out in quot;a
href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/27/44NF-tech-spending_1.html?source=fssr"Is tech in
more trouble than we think?/aquot; And also learn the quot;a
href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/19/47FE-five-recession-proof-technologies_1.html?source=fssr"Five
top spending priorities for hard times/astrong.quot; ]/strong/strong/pp page="1"
class="ArticleBody"Palmisano#39;s argument is that technology has permeated our daily lives to an
extent beyond what prior generations could ever imagine. Here are some key points from this
speech./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;The world is becoming instrumented.quot; A vast array
of sensors perform telemetry tasks in every industry that affects our personal as well as business
lives. From RFID tags in retail stores to red-light/speed cameras to security systems to hospital
instrumentation technology. No matter how mundane, these are now integral parts of our lives./pp
page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;Our world is becoming interconnected.quot; From almost 2 billion
people on an ever-growing Internet to the untethered virtual workplace, individuals have
accessibility and mobility to time-shift and increase their productivity on a global basis. Add to
that the non-human communication of telemetry devices and human to machine interaction,
communication technology and services become a necessity for survival, not a luxury./pp page="1"
class="ArticleBody"quot;All things are becoming intelligent.quot; The PC and a
href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2008/111008-gg-cellphone-smartphone.html"cell phone/a
are just the quot;tip of the iceberg.quot; Everything from our a target="_blank"
href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2008/100308-auto-tech.html"cars/a to our cameras to
our clothing will be smart. The real advances in computer technology, information science and
advanced analytics software are just in their infancy. As with any child, we are experiencing
growing pains. We live in an information age where we have let information, be it an e-mail or a
video, consume us rather than allowing technology to process the details and we as humans to
process the exceptions./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;Digital and physical infrastructures of
the world are converging.quot; Everything large or small contains or will soon contain a
computational engine that can network and communicate. This is a subtle statement that from
hindsight caught everyone by surprise. Another definition of quot;convergencequot; or a realization
that we missed quot;seeing the trees because we were looking at the forest?quot;/pp page="1"
class="ArticleBody"Developing technology for technology#39;s sake (feed the consumer and they will
feed the ad revenue-based Web sites) and business processes to increase profitability/revenue (make
the quarter numbers to meet financial analyst expectations not long-term growth) were myopic goals
while the quot;system was running on all cylinders.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"In
achieving these goals we all got sloppy and missed numerous opportunities to utilize technology to
benefit society, our county, our daily lives and last but not least our employer./pp page="2"
class="ArticleBody"Palmisano listed numerous examples such as energy waste caused by unintelligent
and archaic electrical grids; traffic congestion causing lost working hours and gasoline
consumption; corporate supply chain inefficiency reducing business profitability; antiquated global
healthcare systems with little or no process linkage/communication (profits first/patients second)
creating ever increasing costs and inflation; decreasing water supplies which limit access to safe
drinking water and adequate sanitation facilities causing human malnutrition, disease and tainted
food production; and financial institution risk taking that created a global fiscal disaster of
unprecedented proportion that undermined global government, business and individual confidence./pp
page="2" class="ArticleBody"All of us can add to this list examples of technological sloppiness
that have produced waste or loss of productivity/revenue. From the oil crisis to the healthcare
crisis to the financial crisis, technology innovation and use have taken back seats to greed. At
first this seems to be altruism or socially motivated thinking. Not true, capitalism with
technology as its core competency will drive the next recovery./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Good
intentions aside, IBM had examples of technology/systems solutions for each of these problem areas.
Sales pitch aside, Palmisano had it right -- increased technology use is the driving force that
will produce a global business recovery. The next global growth period will be business driven not
consumer driven. This is not the Internet Bubble of 2000 but the Business Recovery of 2010./pp
page="2" class="ArticleBody"Throwing human resources and/or money at a problem will not solve all
of today#39;s complex interdependent global issues. Add to this the prospect of increased
regulation and oversight required to manage ourselves out of this financial mess and restore
confidence in the global economy./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Without the creative use of
information technology, autonomics, collaboration and information analytic systems and
communication internetworking on a global scale, this is an utterly impossible task that#39;s
doomed to failure. Conducting business the quot;old wayquot; will not work going forward to
2010./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"ema target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com"Network
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