TheIdeaMan

good article. but as far as searching for recipes in wordpress, for example, it's as easy as typing "peanut butter" in the search field. most people can't anticipate how they might want to sort their personal sites. a blog is generic and useful enough for its purpose. if it has a search feature, that would seem to be good enough for most users (not to mention they already allow one to categorize by subjects).

as he points out, rolling your own requires you to know at least something about programming. that's something less than 1% of users out there are going to bother doing. I'm not sure the article provided any truly useful solutions, but it is a good summary of the content management dilemma to some extent.

fyi another article on the subject

sounds like the train of thought that led me to create Dirness.

Brade,

As always, thanks for reading my blog. :)

It's true the author of the article I mentioned doesn't really point to any specific solutions. In the past I never had any trouble pointing out my solution to the problems he mentioned, but I did have a Charles Dickens of a time explaining why my solution was needed. That's where this article came in for me. He seemed to express fairly neatly the problem and that it needed a solution. Reading it, I thought, "hey, that's what I'm trying to build BlueInk to be. Sweet!"

Thanks for the hookup with the other article. It looks like a good one as well. I'm reading it next. I especially like his point about Content Management being different than the CMS.

In summary, I think you and I need to hit the El-luncho-chorizo-establishomente soon and discuss this further.

Anyone else with thoughts on this topic is welcome to join us. :)