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Alex and I are headed to the warm land of Florida this Friday to attend and participate in WordCamp Orlando. The sessions look great and the folks organizing it have done a good job in the past. I’m looking forward to the conference.

Introducing Annotum: a scholarly publishing platform built on WordPress

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Today Google announced some “out of season” spring cleaning: they will be closing Google Knol next May. Knol was originally created “to help improve web content by enabling experts to collaborate on in-depth articles”.

Because of this, we at Crowd Favorite worked closely with Solvitor to create an open-source scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress that could serve as a new home for Knol users. Personally, I’ve been involved with this by leading, in conjunction with Solvitor, the design and development efforts around the new WordPress theme available today: Annotum.

This theme is unlike any other I’ve seen, it’s a sophisticated authoring and publishing platform with numerous features baked in. Originally designed with scientific and scholarly journals in mind, this is a great all-around theme for any publishers.

Knol users can now download their existing content via Google Takeout and take it wherever they’d like and/or set up a Annotum-based WordPress.com blog with a one-click(ish) process.

I’m excited to see the theme in the wild and proud to have worked with the excellent teams at Crowd Favorite, Solvitor, Google, and Automattic. Here’s a bit more about the project where you can learn more about it:

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From Drew Olanoff at The Next Web:

In a serious content play, Netflix has announced that it is bringing the wildly popular show Arrested Development back exclusively on its platform.

I can not wait for this to happen. I’m rooting for two underdogs, here.

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“The Home of Creative Living”. Let me be the first to say I’m very excited for Brit Morin to be the new Martha Stewart. Following her site for the last year has been a treat for a new home owner. This new site is going to be a must-visit.

PROTECT IP Act Breaks the Internet

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In case you haven’t seen what the U.S. Congress is working on lately (hint: not creating jobs, not fixing the economy) in between voting to make sure the nation’s motto is still “In God We Trust”, please watch this video.

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”

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Talented manager with some web design experience looking to work with world-class clients? Come work with a great web design and development team (plus me) here in Denver.

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Scott Berkun’s latest book is available for download for free over the next day or so. He’s a great author (Making Things Happen is a must-read for project managers) and moving into the self-publishing realm. Spread the word and support good books!