The concept of ‘content management’, at least in one respect, is easily unraveled:No prizes for guessing it must be the process or activity by which you ‘manage’ your ‘content’.

Tongue in cheek as that may seem, as somebody who works with a content management system or CMS almost every day, I have sincerely come to think of it this way. This article will help you to understand what it means journalistically as well as semantically, whilst explaining why the simple, and playfully tautological definition of it above is the most useful one.

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You didn’t really think Microsoft would go away that easily? With technical evangelists talking it up in every corner of the blogosphere it would be hard to miss the beta release of Photosynth, one of a series of innovative software projects coming out of the Microsoft pipeline at the moment. So any budding photojournalists should give it a try starting with your messy college dorm room.

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