Content Management Systems and How We Got Here
At Daylife we have a love/hate relationship with web content management systems. For years we’ve watched publishers and marketers struggle with sub-par options, including difficult-to-manage, home-grown legacy solutions; open source applications that are often obtuse and sorely lacking in features, flexibility, and basic documentation; and enterprise offerings that do some things very well and others...
Tackling and Taming an Aging, Irritating CMS
Erik Hinton at Talking Points Memo has announced their completely rebuilt content management system (CMS), and it looks very good. They’ve taken on the problems inherent in most CMSes (including but not limited to: mutually hostile subsystems, idiosyncratic workarounds, legacy components that can’t be properly maintained or upgraded, and the frail network of patch jobs holding it...
Finding new grace in old media
[Guest post by James Erik Abels, cross-posted from TMMBusiness.com] There’s no grace in tech talk. Most of the people who chat and chew digital communiqués have all the originality of Einstein without any of the eloquence of Tolstoy. One of their favorite words is also one of the ugliest – “disintermediate.” It’s vague, awkward, and...