Commentary
source: http://www.maxcutler.com/2010/09/13/what-is-a-n...
Are web CMSes antithetical to multi-channel publishing and structured data formats, or are we just using them wrong?
Hmm, defining what is and what isn’t a “root issue” is tricky business. Web CMSes expect that you’ll (first and foremost) publish to the web, and most of them use WYSIWYG editors that lead to semantically worthless output… but then again, as you rightly point out, Curtiss, it’s certainly not impossible to swap out the editor in a CMS, or, heck, mark up content in straight XML, or output to PDFs or mobile apps or what ever. But it’d be so much nicer if a CMS would actually lend a helping hand and, y’know, help us manage all that stuff. And none of the CMSes out there really do.
Some other opinions:
http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2006/sep/20/personal-content-management/
http://www.holovaty.com/writing/fundamental-change/
http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/10/13/cope-create-once-publish-everywhere/