Drupal founder Dries Buytaert writes:

In the January 2007 issue, Linux Format reviewed Drupal 4.7 and compared it to Joomla, Mambo, Midgard, Plone and Typo3.

I don't have the publication, and the online magazine just has a list of contents:

Roundup: Content management systems - Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, Midgard, Plone, Typo3

But when you look at all the checkmarks in the page image below....

Michael Wolff has written a piece on Steve Jobs for the April 2006 issue of "Vanity Fair."

This impressionistic piece is good. Wolff writes of Jobs

... it turns out that Jobs is not marginal, or eccentric, or even fanciful at all. His is the at-one-with-the-American-consumer golden gut.

Calling Jobs the "ultimate media guy," who has outdone Bill Gates at every turn, Wolff declares Jobs the real winner.

The reader wonders if the claim is valid - at least I wondered. Isn't Microsoft far and away more commercially successful than Mac?

Well, Wolff has that covered.

... one day in the near recent past everybody woke up and found out that while all the geniuses were blathering on about content this and content that, the media culture had, in fact, come to be dominated by machines. It's Steve's gadget-centric world which we just live in.

Customers don't want a 1/4-inch drill; they want a 1/4-inch hole.

So said Ted Levitt and his article, "Marketing Myopia," stands as a classic.

In my own experience at Hewlett-Packard Medical Electronics, our engineers were positively charmed by their inventions, but what the savvier marketing folks understood was that the patient's vital signs were not the central reason the equipment was purchased - although it was very important - but more to the point, the physicians and staff wanted a trend line.

We "hire" products to do jobs.

Some years ago there was the "CB craze." The Citizen's Band radios were all the rage, especially among truckers. Driving an 18-wheeler, alone, over miles of interstate can be a lonely life and the CB radio became an instant fixture. There was even a hit single about truckers called "Convoy" where the CB radio was a "star."

"You can't go home again," wrote Thomas Wolf.

In the next several weeks I will be blogging on my memories of starting out - my first position out of college - and how I chanced to be hired by E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Inc., of Wilmington Delaware.

I hope this will be more than a "remember when" story. I hope to make it relevant.

Why is this a remarkable story? Why should it be told? Well, let me tell you a little about DuPont.

DuPont is one of the oldest firms in the world - founded in 1802. It continues today and is still in the Fortune Fifty (F-50) and is one of the Dow Jones firms that tell us where the stock market is. Pretty remarkable. No other firm on the Dow Jones can trace itself back that far.

More remarkable still is that DuPont is a "green" company whose corporate policy is environmentally conscious. Kermit may have lamented, "it's not easy being green," but DuPont is doing something about their impact on the environment.

Shigeru Miyagawa, Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, discusses "Personal Media" on 17 minute streaming video in part one of a series entitled "Media, Education, and the Marketplace." Professor Miyagawa's insights are fascinating and dovetail with the role that the founders of pingV have envisioned.

Professor Miyagawa speaks of "story telling," which is a pingV pillar. He speaks to how learning is changing and how the role of mass media is central.

He makes an interesting point. There is "mass media" and "personal media." Like most of us, he is part of a generation raised on a diet of mass media. His insight is into a new paradigm, not limited to children, but people adapting to personal media.