There are now a bunch of weblog systems that will help you manage your blogs both hosted and not. WordPress is one of the better known ones, along with Blogger and Movabletype. Many of these tools now include ways to write static pages that are not in the blog structure and other functions to allow you to manage your whole site with them. But are they content management tools the same way a system like Drupal or TeamSite is? These tools have a large number of other tools included like user management, different page types and styles, and much more. What do you think, is WordPress a CMS?

The W3C has decided to take a look at Web video with the aim of making it a first class citizen. This is good news, as up until now, video (and it's companion, audio) have been difficult to place on Web pages, and have caused problems like slow downloads and difficult compatibility. I put up a video the other day, and it streamed great on my computer, but on my brother's Linux box, he had to download the whole thing before it would even play. And he couldn't even download the first version of the video that I made. So, if you've had trouble adding video to your Web pages, you're not the only one. Maybe someday we won't be forced to use the deprecated embed tag, and when we do use the object tag our videos will play.

I was reading this article today about the differences between accessibility and SEO and it made me think about usability as well. It's interesting to me how many people equate accessibility and usability - it never even occurred to me to equate SEO into that mix. But as Joe discusses it, I realize that that is something people do all the time. I define them this way:

• accessibility - making a site usable by people with disabilities.
• SEO - search engine optimization; making a site usable by search engines.
• usability - making a site usable by whomever needs to use it.