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I thought for sure we would get a strong showing of visitors here at Like that Idea when we posted in our blog Positive Proof Spammers are Evil. While our numbers jumped up a bit, the number of visitors still remained rather low.

In a day or two I plan to cross-post the same article at another one of my sites, CMS Report. I’ll be curious to see if the numbers of visitors will be different or not. If there are significant differences in the number of visitors between the two sites for the same post, we’ll have to take a deeper look to answering the question for why there is a difference.

My bet is there will be some significant differences in the number of visitors CMS Report receives for the same article that was posted here a week earlier. Until it happens, I’ll keep it quiet why I expect those differences.? Stay tuned!

Information Week has an interesting article about those involved in such online ventures as digg, del.icio.us, Zoot, and Six Apart’s Movable Type. Basically, the article discusses how people have made their money off of blogging or providing the blog-like software and services.

Most people who pull down a paycheck dream of making a living at their hobby. For IT managers, the dream is more within reach than it is for most professionals, as their technical skills can give them a head start in building businesses on the Web. A supertalented few have even made fortunes.

How do they do it? We went straight to the sources, interviewing tech pros who turned their cyberhobbies into full-time jobs. Many of them truly were accidental entrepreneurs; others at least had an inkling they could make a go of it. All were helped along by a business-fertile Internet environment, their raw ambition, supportive spouses, and a little luck. They haven’t all become rich, but they’re all making a living at what they used to do for fun. Click Here for rest of article.

I enjoyed the article and I think most of CMS Report’s vistitors will also find the artcile interesting. However, I have one point to make. Success is not an accident. While these people may be very lucky to have a “job” doing something they love, accidents just don’t happen. It takes a lot of hard work, sweat, risk, and dedication to become successful in IT. Sure there are exceptions…but I think most of those interviewed in the article wouldn’t really consider their success to be found only by accident.

Note: This post has been “recycled” from Bryan’s other site, CMS Report. You can read that post by clicking here.

Packt, an IT book publisher, announced the beginning of their Open Source Content Management System System Award. The award is meant to “encourage, support, recognize and reward an Open Source Content Management System (CMS)”. Visitors to Packt’s site can nominate their favorite CMS and one of the top five will be selected by a panel of judges. Besides the first place winner being awarded $5000, the second place winner will get $3000 and third place winner will receive $2000.

You’ll want to take note that the CMS you nominate must be part of an open source project. Also, the deadline for nominating your CMS at Packt’s site is September 1, 2006. For more information you’ll need to visit Packt.

Note: The below message was cross posted with our sister site, CMS Report. After you read the post, we would be interested in hearing from you whether you see this site, Like that Idea, as a Family 2.0 Site. Do we have a future? Please write you comments below this post! Thanks!

Taking the term of Web 2.0 further, CNET has an article about Family 2.0 sites:

Cook is one of a growing number of parent-entrepreneurs who are putting their time and money behind their familial interests and starting a new generation of Web sites for parents and older people–sites that borrow many of the social networking concepts, such as photo-sharing and the wiki, that are found on well-known destinations like MySpace.com and the aforementioned Wikipedia.

Call them “Family 2.0″ sites–places for people who may feel a little strange hanging out with the teenybopper set on MySpace. While big family-friendly sites have been around for a long time, few of them have taken advantage of newer Web technologies, even things as widespread as RSS feeds and mapping links.

The owner of CMSReport.com and his wife has a site of their own that would likely qualify as a Family 2.0 site, LikethatIdea.com. The intention of Like that Idea is to point out good ideas and products for the family. The site is intended to be less IT oriented, but Bryan has the tendency to let his geek side prevail from time to time!

When the days are less crazy, we’ll write more about a sister site of ours, the CMS Report. The site is still in it’s iniitial stages with content somewhat limited. The site currently provides content through a news aggregator and an occasional original article. The theme also needs some work. For now though, we’ll just say if you have an interest in web content management systems you’ll likely find something that interests you.

The site covers most open source projects including Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, Wordpress, etc. Also covered is the propriety side of CMS. In the near-future, discussion will also include the broader topics of information systems and system adminstration.

CMS Report currently runs on Drupal 4.7. While CMS Report will allow for comments and submission of articles, it is not expected to introduce a forum-type format. If you like forums, we recommend another CMS-focused site we are associated with…the WebCMS Forum.