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Browsing around looking for information about Plone and WebDAV, I came across Enfold Systems and their Plone Desktop, which sounds very promising (and the demo works well) but I assumed that it was Open Source and was disappointed to find out that it wasn't. I am concerned about the security aspects of this system, the lack of documentation on Enfold's web site, and most of all by the inability to buy it - the listed UK reseller had nothing about Plone Desktop on their web site. I couldn't even find anything in a search. So I dropped any thoughts I had of using that. However, the Enfold site mentions a slide show product for Plone, which uses something called S5, developed by none other than Eric Meyer. At the mention of this name my interest was well and truly pricked and I enjoyed browsing over to meyerweb for the first time in a while to check out S5. S5 is: "S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well." Judging by the demo, the slide shows look like they have to be kept pretty simple, without all the bells and whistles of PowerPoint, but that's a good thing! I may try this out at some point in the coming months. Incidentally, I notice that Eric is using WordPress. WordPress is something that's bubbled to the surface of my attention pool with several mentions recently. My colleague Cary gave me a demo and it looks very nice, with a huge number of skins to choose from. I just wonder if WordPress is taking over from Blogger and Radio and MovableType as the preferred blog tool. But I think I'll stick with MovableType, at least for now. It may be horribly complicated to customize and has an interface that may look okay but is clunky* and unintuitive to use - however, it works for me, and I've got enough other stuff to do right now without thinking about migrating to a new blog system. * e.g. having to scroll way down the page to save this entry! 8-(