I know, I know, rarely do big enterprise execs outside of the publishing world take WordPress seriously. But personally, I think given a great development and security team, WordPress and BuddyPress are a good contender for enterprise content management. The combination combines publishing capabilities and social networking in a user-friendly and customizable package, while many paid solutions are so expensive and hard to use. I don't deny that there'd be security issues; that's why the development and security team will have to do their work. But if we talk UI and customization, WP + BP is a great option.

I remember Sharepoint too and what a pain it was to use it. It really is a good thing to have all these alternatives right now for content management. Saves loads of time and actually convenient now.

There was a time when a lot of content and document sharing was done with Microsoft's Sharepoint solution. I was never a big fan, and I am glad that these days there are a ton of alternatives available on the market. The problem that I always had with Sharepoint is that it was overly complex and not easy to use. Not to mention that these days mobile is incredibly important and the fact that content is now not just restricted to Word files and Excel spreadsheets. Halcyon days are ahead, I think. 

Magazines and newspapers seem to be trying to stop you from reading their content, rather than encouraging it.

It's ironic that the only reason I still have a subscription to Time Out New York is that the website is a complete disaster.  Periodicals which run good websites--New York magazine, for example--lose me as subscriber, because the content is easily accessible online for free.

It does seem unfair.

@jabailo I noticed the same thing, and more often than not I will leave rather than click to another set that forces me to click through 10 times just to read a really short article. Rarely is it worth the effort of clicking (reading takes very little effort), and I never EVER click over to the intrusive ads that appear along the way.

I do find even with myself that it's easier to interact sometimes through social media in one way or another than in real life.  It's easier for them, too--almost as though social media is actually real.

The only malware I've ever experienced on my phone is the occasional spam text message.   Guess that's the power of a linux kernel!  

So far, mobile malware hasn't been a huge problem, but it's coming soon... and I'm not looking forward to it. When/where-ever valuable information is transmitted digitally, malware to try to obtain that info illicitly will follow... 

Maybe there will be a new way to prevent malware attacks, but we'll have to suffer through the growing pains of mobile anti-virus software, methinks... yay.

Magazines and newspapers seem to be trying to stop you from reading their content, rather than encouraging it. 

As counter-intuitive as it sounds...yes, this appears to be the case!

It seems that more and more the pattern of "news reporting" is putting a Troll Headline link that appears in Google News with something like The Five Candy Bars That Make You Smart.   You click on the link, and it takes you to an article.  Is there, in text, a list of the five candy bars?  No, there is a 2 page Introduction about the study, then a link to a Slide Show where each entry is presented, one by one.  At the end of it is a video news story giving you the missing details.

Business is business of course, and the only reason for presenting a web page is to get people to view and click ads.   If you simply told them the news, they'd take it and leave.   

Designers want control. Businesses want to cram more and more information onto the page. That's where all those floating bars and other annoyances come from. 

Magazines and newspapers seem to be trying to stop you from reading their content, rather than encouraging it. 

Similar issues exist on intranets, where everybody in the company wants to be sure to get their all-important message out to employees. Meanwhile, the poor employee who just wants to find out whether they get Martin Luther King Day off has to dig to find that information.