In keeping with tradition, the following are seven articles that were posted here at CMSReport.com and received less attention than I had hoped.  Either the reader didn't show up to view the article or there was little discussion on the subject matter.  I'll let you be the judge on whether these articles deserved the obscurity they received in 2008.

1. Walt Mossberg on the Asus Eee PC
2. The Content in 1996
3. Revealing numbers from Alfresco regarding the enterprise stack
4. Are there not enough girl geeks in the world?
5. U.S. Falling Behind as Academics Goes Global
6. The case for a boxed CMS: Security
7. Is Microsoft finally seeing the light with Office?

eWeek has an interesting article regarding women working in IT, or rather, women not working in IT.  The article is, Where Did All the Girl Geeks Go?

A professor says he has only one girl in a computer science major class in 2008, down from 40 percent in 2000. What happened? eWEEK gets field experts to weigh in.

While women hold 51 percent of professional jobs in the United States, they make up only 26 percent of the IT work force, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology. Furthermore, fewer women worked in IT in 2008 than in 2000.

The article later discusses about the need to put more effort into convincing women that working with technology can be cool.  This argument and others the article makes for how to get more women involved in IT and computer science is a problem.  I don't know a single geek, whether male or female, that had to be convinced that technology is cool.

The survey found that salaries for men increased by 2.4% in 2007 but stayed flat for women. The average salary last year for men was $76,582, and for women, it was $67,507, according to Dice. The gap widened last year: In 2006, the difference between salaries paid to men and women was 9.7%."

Complete Stoy from ComputerWorld

This article was posted by me a couple days ago at Open Source Community. Since my son has to get to swimming lessons, this is about all the time I have for "new stuff".

I think I'm fast becoming an Angie Byron fan. Check out this fantastic video from her speech at the Ontario Linux Fest, Women in Open Source.

Talks about sexual discrimination and gender bias in an organization or community is always a touchy subject. However, Angie does a great job in discussing this important topic. In the talk, she brings a perspective that is not only based by personal observation but also some interesting statistics. Watch the video and let us know what you think. Better yet, if you're impressed with Angie and want to leave her some kind words, you can always leave comments at her site's blog.