I'm Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using open source software, especially Django. In the '90s I did graphic design for newspapers and magazines. Then I wrote technology commentary and reviews for Wired, Salon.com, Chicago Tribune, and lots of little places you've never heard of. Feel free to email me.
I'm co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", an excellent guide to my favorite web framework. Published by Addison-Wesley, it is available from Amazon and your favorite technical bookstore as well.
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Interesting -- About.com is moving to WordPress. I also learned from Matt's blog posting, much to my surprise, that they were using Movable Type before. It feels very significant that the New York Times Company is migrating its $410-million-dollar baby over to an open source content-management platform. The usual open source components further down the stack -- Apache, Linux, et al. -- don't have the same implications for feel and functionality that the content management layer does, and therefore this feels like more of a significant endorsement of open source.
If I didn't enjoy writing my own stuff so much, I'm pretty sure I'd be using WordPress too.
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