Tom Insam

Blogging and Content Management

I've been toying with architectures for the Ultimate Content Management Application, a bit of vaporware that's suffering from Second System Effect before I even come up with a coherent plan, and to do this I've been looking at content management systems. Well, ok, I've been trying to look at content management systems, because almost everything I find that a) calls itself a content management system and b) is free, is not a CMS, it's a bad slashdot clone that lets you take the dates off the entries. I'm sure there's more to content management than there is to a blog, but I can't find any evidence to the contrary. Of course, there might be expensive things out there that do what I'm imagining, but nothing I can download. Which is no bloody good, I want to play with a Real App.

This is in weird contrast to this megnut which complains that most blogging engines are bad content management systems that let you display date-based lists of entries and call themselves blogs. Weird. So, are there any CMSes out there I can play with? Preferably written in perl...

thanks to blech for the megnut link.