On Blogs vs. CMS
“Meg read my [Dave Winer] What Makes A Weblog A Weblog essay, and sent an email (from Copenhagen) explaining that I missed the fundamental difference between weblogs and everything else.
She says: “The biggest thing I keep stressing, which I think is the fundamental difference: posts vs pages. It’s about posts, chunks of content, not pages, which is what wikis are, and it’s the content that Vignette and Interwoven output. They treat the chunks of content as pages, and they don’t see the more discrete bits that are the posts.” [Scripting News]
We’re getting a lot of inquiries at work about content management systems. Often when we have the specification or sales meetings my mind goes back again to our own internal blogs, the frequency of postings and its google like searchability.
Although I like the ‘concept’ of a unified content management system (CMS) that draws all posts and information together into organized pages the reality is that content is generated in small posts. If those small posts are organized in categories and completely searchable (a la google) then all the huge infrastructure of the CMS organizing system seems to be not needed for small to midsize content driven sites. I’m sure a CMS project that is well funded with full time project management can yield the correct result but many of our customers are not in a position (or inclination) to do that so it would seem that a blog is a quick way to at least start collecting content as it develops (posts) and present it in an easy to find way…now.